Mama Elephant Rainbow Birds!

Happy Tuesday! Sharing a fun Mama Elephant rainbow inspired card today! We have been seeing a mix of freezing rain and snow here in Montréal and I was in dire need of a happy colourful project :)

This card was inspired by Julie Ebersole, she created a similar background last week and I simply could not resist. It just made me happy! I decided to pair mine with the fantastic newly released Mama Elephant Happy Birthday die and the cute birds from he Mama Elephant wreath stamp set from their last release.

I started by stamping my stripes using my stamp positioner in rainbow order on 3/4 of the panel. I realized that once I was done with my stamping that I was slightly off so I used my Honey Bee die to cut the panel giving the illusion that all is straight.

I die cut my Happy Birthday die from a Neena 80lbs, fun foam and Stick It sandwich for dimension and added it to the panel.  I then stamped and coloured my birds and flowers with Copics, used the accompanying dies and placed them on the panel.

To finish off I added a secondary sentiment on Black Licorice cardstock and some Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Sequins! 

Thanks so much for taking the time, all products used are listed and linked below. Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you!

Kim

Simon Says: Christmas!

It's Wednesday crafty friends and that means it's time for a new Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!

This week Simon Says: Christmas! The design team is featuring Creative Expressions products, it isn't a requirement to use them but if you have them we would love to see them!

Come join in on the fun, you have the chance of winning a $50 gift card to the fantastic Simon Says Stamp store!

I had such fun with this scene! I started by ink blending my Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress Inks on a piece of 80lbs Neena Solar White. I then sprayed my panel with shimmer spray and set it aside to dry.

I then stamped my images from the Mama Elephant Santa's Sleigh and coloured them with my Copics. I then used the accompanying dies, I added some diamond glitter to the sleigh, snow marker to my Santa and Christmas red tickles to the big reindeer's nose. I added my gold ribbon and attached my images with foam tape onto the base panel.

I die cut the beautiful Jingle Bells script from Creative Expressions from black glitter cardstock and placed it on the panel. To finish off my card, I added some jingle bells and a mix of Hero Arts sequins on the background.

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Thanks for taking the time!

Kim :)

Christmas Tags with Mama Elephant Holiday Bitties

Happy Friday! Sharing some quick sweet tags featuring new and older Mama Elephant products!

I love making Christmas tags! So many sweet options to personalize your gift packages.  Today, I am sharing these featuring all Mama Elephant stamps and dies.

I have been wanting to play with the Holiday Bitties stamp set so last weekend I was on a tag mission and I finally stamped some of these cute images.

I started by die cutting my Neena 110lbs with a tag from the Mama Elephant Framed Tags Union Squares, the set is really fantastic it has a square scalloped die and some accessories including this two part tag which can die cut a stitched opening panel on the top of the tag. And I also die cut the full tag only for the backing.

I then stamped all of the images I selected from the Holiday Bitties set and stamped them out and colored with my Copics. I added some white gel pen detail, some glossy accents and some Nuvo White Blizzard glitter drops on a few of the elements.

For the tag toppers I used a set from Mama Elephant called Winter Taggins that includes other tag dies and this fantastic foliage for the tops of the tags.

To finish off I used a mix of Lawn Trimmings and twine from my stash!

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Thanks for taking the time!

Kim 

Joy Ormanments!

Happy Friday crafty friends! I had such fun playing with the new Mama Elephant Joy Ornaments and some new Altenew Washi tape!

My inspiration for this project came from the gorgeous Altenew washi tape! When I picked them up, I placed a bunch of them on card bases because I was just anxious to see what they looked like! So for this one, I decided to break out my Mama Elephant Joy Ornaments (I love this stamp set).

I stamped my ornaments on a piece of Neena 80lbs cardstock and used red Copics that had a pink base to work with the Washi shades - R59, R39, R37, R35 and R32.  Once that was complete, I die cut another piece of Neena using a Lawn Fawn Stitched Border Die and cut the excess with my paper trimmer.  I placed my "joy" to see where to stamp and emboss my snowflakes. Once my embossing was complete, I mounted my white panel on the card base with fun foam. 

I then stamped and embossed the ornament string and topped the ornament with a silver topper using Simon Says stamp silver glitter paper.  I added some white gel pen detail and my secondary sentiment on the bottom of the ornament. I then scattered some Pretty Pink Posh silver sequins.

Thanks for taking the time, all the products are listed and linked below!

Kim

Simon Says: Fun in the Sun

Happy Wednesday crafty friends! I have been MIA over the last week as I have been away for work! But I am back and my vacation starts next week! Can't wait!

It's time for a fun new Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge but first have you seen the Summer Kids Challenge going on now! The theme is Anything Goes with Sparkle! Click the link above or the logo below for more details!

Encourage your younger loved ones to enter for a chance to win one of three grab bags! This challenge is such fun!

Now for this week, Simon Says: Fun in the Sun! The design team is featuring Mama Elephant, you don't have to but we would sure love seeing them! 

Come join in on the fun, you have the chance of winning a $50 gift card to the fantastic Simon Says Stamp store!

If any of you follow my blog you know that I am a huge pet person especially dogs! I love dogs especially my two goofs! So I chose to go with the Little Dog Agenda stamp set and all the fun "summer activity" dogs.

I started by stamping my puppies on Neena 80lbs cardstock with Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink for Copic coloring. I chose the dogs with the beach ball, popcorn, beer (lol), activity flag or beach flag, and the skateboarder. I had to fussy cut them once I was done with the coloring (always buy the dies people! lol)

Once my images we complete and cut I die cut another piece of Neena 80lbs with the Mama Elephant Cloud Nine frame die (one of my favorite die sets). I created my own circle stencil by die-cutting a piece of acetate. I ink blended with Hero Arts Bubble Gum, Soft Apricot, Soft Vanilla, Green Apple, Soft Pool and Orchid inks for my rainbow circles. They are die and/or hybrid inks but they can be ink blended beautiful if you remove some of the excess before bringing the ink to the paper. If you are interested in trying this I highly recommend videos on YouTube by Laura Bassen. She rocks this technique!

I placed all of my puppies on the coordinating circles and chose the Mama Elephant Occasional Labels for my series of fun sentiments. I love this stamp set, it has every sentiment you may need and extra fun ones and I love the effect the stamped in black ink on white paper.

I finished off my card with some Nuvo Crystal Drops in rainbow colors and some Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear sequins. All of the products used are listed and linked below!

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Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Animal Magic - featuring Gina K products!

Happy Wednesday! I am super excited to announce and share my first post for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge as a new DT member! :) I was over the moon when I received the news and I still am!

The challenge this week is Animal Kingdom featuring Gina K. products, we are showcasing Gina K Products this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used. The list of supplies is listed at the bottom of my post and they can all be purchased at Simon Says Stamp :) I used a mix of Gina K stamps and along with some new Mama Elephant products for my project this week.  I started by stamping my vines and my Gina K sentiment with Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink in my Misti, once that was complete I placed my sweet monkeys from the Mama Elephant Monkey Agenda set and stamped them in the same black ink for Copic coloring.

My Copic colors are listed at the end of this post and this was actually a quick card as the images are sweet and small :) Once that was complete I used my mini MFT Cloud Stencil with Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Ink. I wanted a little splash of color so I die cut some CAS-ual Friday Funfetti hearts from Fun Foam and StickIt adhesive. I also die cut the same hearts from Tonic Flat Red Mirror card stock and placed them on top of the fun foam.

I put my panel on my card base and then added another fun sentiment from the Gina K. Happy Mail set on the envelope in the Gina K. Red Velvet ink.  I love using the "Not a Bill" sentiment when I mail a handmade card.  All of my products can be found in the Simon Says Stamp Store and they are all listed below!

Thanks for taking the time and check out the challenge you have the chance of winning a $50 gift voucher to the store!
Kim

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Spring Hello!

Happy Monday! We are having a cold spell in Montréal, really cold spell lol! I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of Spring this week and some warmer temps! I decided to imagine spring flowers with this Mama Elephant stamp.

I wanted to play with some no-line Copic coloring and this stamp Botanic Hello seemed perfect for that! It isn't a new stamp but I just purchased it so it's new to me!

I started by coloring my flowers in rainbow order with BV00, BV02, BV11, BV13,   RV52, RV55, YR00, YR01, YR04, Y17, Y15,Y11, BG10, BG11, BG13, B00, B02, B04, YG17, YG21 and YG23 I then used N4 and N2 to shade the Hello.

Once the coloring was complete I die cut my panel with the large die from the Mama Elephant Cloud Nine die and then added black detail to the flower centres and to the Hello to try and make it pop a little. I then white embossed the secondary sentiment on black card stock and finished the project with a Rainbow of Pretty Pink Posh Jewels.

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

Winter inspires rainbows!

Happy Wednesday (or hump day) crafty friends! For some reason I have been focusing on rainbow colors lately, more than likely inspired by winter which has been pretty intense thus far this year.

I have been playing a lot with my last Mama Elephant order and this project is no different :)

All of the stamps used are from the new Pretty Lovely stamp set by Mama Elephant from their January release. I cut a piece of Strathmore Bristol paper to 5.25 x 4 inches and I stamped the flower with VersaMark ink repeatedly around the border and white embossed the images with Nuvo embossing powder (love the pure white).  I decided to use my oh-so-loved Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers to color in the flowers.

Once I finished the flowers I decided on the large Lovely sentiment from the same set with the accompanying smaller sentiments. I stamped them with Versafine Onyx Black Ink (I always used this ink for sentiments unless I need to use my Copics on or around the sentiment). I love the black intensity you get from the Versafine.

I colored in the Lovely with the same colors of Zig markers and topped it off with Glossy Accents.  I then wanted to accent my flowers so I went in with a very pale green (Green Shadow I think???) used my water brush to soften the lines. I then finished it off with some Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear sequins!

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

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

Mama Elephant - Fly with Me

Happy Monday! January is almost over! I always see a ray of sunshine at this time of year because February is a short month and that means spring is around the corner, lol (at least in my mind).

I had such fun over the weekend playing with my new Mama Elephant products :)

I am in love with these elephants (Fly with Me), I mean could they be any cuter! I started by die cutting my background panel (Neena Solar White) with the new full size die from the Mama Elephant Cloud Nine set and then used a cloud stencil and some distress inks. I then die cut the stitched cloud from the same die set to make a shaker card. I wasn't sure if I wanted one elephant or multiples so I stamped them all with my Lawn Fawn Jet Black Copic friendly ink. I colored in the cuties with warm greys and the balloons in kind of rainbow order.

I decided to use these three elephants on the card and added some extra clouds die cut from both Neena and Vellum.  I then added some Studio Katia rainbow sequins and seed beads by Pretty Pink Posh. I really like the way this one turned out. These elephants simply make me smile!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

In love with Otters!

Happy Wednesday crafty friends! Had the chance to spend some quality time in my craft room last weekend and I decided to pull out my MFT Otters.  For those of you that don't know me, I am a huge animal lover and should probably be running an animal refuge! One particular (besides dogs, of course) is otters. I am simply in love with otters and would love to give one a good home (much to my husbands trauma, lol!)

I tend to purchase any otter set on the market but this guy from the My Favorite Things Otterly Love You set is by far my favorite!

This project began after I played with some of my alcohol inks and one of the backgrounds became my waves die cut with the Mama Elephant Ocean Waves Trio dies.  I then used another Mama Elephant die (Madison Avenue) for my frame and background. I used Salty Ocean Distress Oxide for the sky and sprayed it with my Distress Sprayer for texture.

I then used my Copic Sketch in E71, W3, W1 and WO for my Otter. I also colored some of the fish from the same set with simple coloring.

I put the card together and decided on the Mama Elephant Hello Friend Script Creative Cut and used my new obsession Tonic Glitter paper.  I die cut three and stacked them for dimension and then glued them to the background.  

To finish the project I scattered a mix of Studio Katia jewels and Hero Arts Ocean sequins. I have been making many friendship cards, I guess winter has a way of letting you know to send out some happy mail!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

CAS-ual Friday's Merry Christmas

Happy Monday crafty friends! My project today features my new favourite Merry Christmas sentiment which a is new from CAS-ual Friday's :)

When I opened this set I knew I had to use it right away, I just love the font!

I decided to go with a more traditional colour palette mixed with kraft card stock.  I used my Ranger red embossing powder for the sentiment once I embossed it I decided on this Mama Elephant frame die.  I then decided to emboss my snowflakes (Snowy Sayings stamp set) with gold glitter embossing powder.

I added some white gel pen to act as more falling snow. For the frame I used the Lawn Fawn Arglye background stamp and used the same gold embossing powder. I finished with some Pretty Pink Posh sequins and a felt piece for the holly.

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

Mama Elephant Yeti!

Happy hump day crafty friends! Quick post today featuring the Mama Elephant Me and My Yeti stamp set.

I placed a Mama Elephant order during their 5th Birthday sale and I was on the fence about the Yeti set so I didn't add it to the order.  I kept looking at it and regretted my decision so I went back and grabbed it while I could! Not only do I love the big Yeti's but the tiny accessories are too sweet.

I decided on a tiny village scene and started by die cutting my Mama Elephant frame from the Lafayette collection in Neena Solar White 80lbs card stock.  For the insert panel I used Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Ink and then sprayed the background with my Distress Sprayer.  I then cut one more panel for the insert to make snow slopes for my scene. 

I then stamped my images with Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink to use my Copic markers.  I did multiple of the trees and the mountains and two of the smaller house. Then my Yeti and the little humans from the set.

Once I decided on my placement I embossed my sentiment from Sentiments from a Yeti in Ranger red glitter embossing powder.  I glued all of my elements to the card and I was all done!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim