Winter Rainbow with Mama Elephant

Happy Monday crafty friends! Snowy Sunday yesterday so I had time to spend in my craft room :)

My project today was inspired by Laura Bassen, I just love her graphic style especially with her rainbows :)  So I decided to try my luck with this project and I am so happy with the way it turned out.

I used the stitched rain drop from the new Mama Elephant Cloud Nine die set and die cut a variety of colors from both Lawn Fawn and My Favorite Things card stock. I found the centre point of my panel and started placing the rain drops from the centre on the entire panel and I cut the excess off with my Tonic paper trimmer. I then die cut my Mama Elephant Birthday Script die from a fun foam, StickIt and Neena 80 lbs sandwich.

For the happy I used the Happy Birthday from the Occasional Labels set and cut the birthday and simply added white gel pen to complete the white frame. I placed my panel on a Neena 110 lbs card base and that was it.

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

Fall Tone on Tone Birthday card

Happy Friday crafty friends! Any crafting plans for the weekend? I am hoping to lock myself into my craft room at least for a bit :)

Today's card was inspired by a tutorial May Park provided for the Online Card Classes "Making Merry" class.  I am never able to follow the classes "live" due to work, so I catch it when I can and this project really inspired me for this tone on tone birthday card.

I started by picking the Lawn Fawn Raspberry card stock for my panel and card base. I simply love Lawn Fawn card stock, by far my favourite and this colour makes me smile!  I then decided to pull out some old Paper Smooches stamps that I had in my stash for the leafy/floral background.  For the ink colour I chose the Hero Arts Raspberry Jam dye ink. I placed my stamps using my Misti stamped one side then flipped my panel and stamped the second side.  

From one of the same stamp sets I took the "berries" or three dots and stamped them using clear embossing ink and added gold embossing powder.  I then die cut the MFT Celebrate die with gold mirror paper (with fun foam and StickIt for dimension). I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Mama Elephant set that was a free gift with purchase during their 5-year birthday sale in VersaFine Onyx Black Ink. Popped the strip up with some foam tape.

I finished the project with a scattering of gold Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

Thanks for taking the time and have a great weekend!

Kim