Mama Elephant March Designer Series

Hello crafty friends! Davina here, with a classic, yet still fun, scene using their recent March release. I know often I try hard to make super exciting and interactive cards. But sometimes I really crave a classic card, using pretty and fundamental skills, and lots of stamped images to create a heartfelt greeting. 

I wanted to use the adorably round raccoons from the latest release, and couldn’t decide between the two sizes. The ability to hold things in their hands make the larger ones a no brainer, but the teeny agenda ones are just full of too much cuteness to pass on. I think I spent more time trying to think of the perfect punny sentiment than I did coloring, but in the end I settled on the “Partners in Crime” theme. I wanted to make another “bookish” card so the “Partners in Crime” evolved into True-Crime. 

I began by stamping images from Playful Raccoons and Little Raccoon Agenda for the main focus. Next, I found books and pillow images in the Keep Cozy stamp set that were the perfect accessories. I colored in my images before using the coordinating dies to cut everything out. Next, I got out my brushes and inked up a sherbet inspired combination using colors like Saltwater Taffy and Scattered Straw. I intentionally blended to white leaving the bottom 1/3 portion white so i could stamp my sentiment. 

With the new Personal Letters alphabet stamps, I stamped True Crime directly onto the panel. Then using a smaller alphabet stamps I created a banner with the beginning of the sentiment. I mounted my ink blended panel onto some subtle text paper and then arranged and adhered my images using a variety of glue and foam dots. I stamped some small bookish sentiments into some speech bubbles using Storybook Sayings and Simple Friends Bubbles. I popped those up on foam dots so they would balance out the heavier bottom. 

As a finishing touch I added teeny gold stars onto the scene, loving how the gold highlighted the gold foil text on the patterned paper background. This ended up being very classy and perfect for an adult friend in my opinion. And I loved that it wouldn’t be too difficult for someone to replicate if they felt inspired to do so. 

Thank you so much for stopping by, and I hope you are inspired to be creative with your new stamps! Davina 

February Designer Series with Mama Elephant

Hello crafty friends! Davina here, with Mama Elephant, sharing my Designer Series project for February. I created a bursting pop up box of “Happy Mail” featuring a super cute new stamp set called Handle With Care. I always appreciate when a large block text stamp set has the coordinating dies and this set is not exception, and I especially love all the cute little panda bears that accompany the text. I combined a few other stamp sets to fill this card and love that the older Incoming Mail stamps are also mail themed and pandas! They were screaming for a fun collaboration. 

I decided to make a pop up box card using the 3D Pop Up Box Card Die set, and to make it look like a cute cardboard shipping box. I began by cutting the main box twice using Kraft cardstock and then gently inkblending all of the edges and folds with Distress Oxide Inks. I cut the inserts, using the included hill, from bright patterned papers and assembled the box using hot glue (always my favorite way of making secure box cards)

I stamped the sentiments from Handle With Care with colorful matching ink and cut out using the coordinating Creative Cuts. Then after cutting some panels for the flaps, I adhered and decorated the “box”. I used some small stamps the stamp sets Essential Tag Sayings for even more decoration on the outer box by stamping directly on the box with a taupe colored dye ink. 

For the inside of the pop up design, I stamped and colored the images from Incoming Mail, and arranged them onto my inserts, and also onto the fold down panels. I always adhere my images onto the inserts using hot glue because it sets up quickly and is sturdy enough to hold the images securely, without the risk of them slipping down or shifting on accident. I love how cute everything looks together and the way that the images all complement each other. 

I hope you enjoy this look at my “Happy Mail”, and pull out your older box card dies and make a bursting little box card for yourself. Thank you for stopping by, Davina 

Mama Elephant February Stampede Blog Hop

Welcome to the Mama Elephant Design Team blog hop!

Our newest release is now live and available for purchase in the store!

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Today I’m sharing a fun trip of cloche type glass jars, that I created out of several die cuts, to fill some some beautiful Easter images from a couple of the new release sets. I used May Your Dreams, Basket of Goodies, along with that chick & eggs from Delivering Spring Happiness, to make some grass and flower filled displays. I used the B2B Arches and and trimmed the scallop frames for the bottom from Two Scallop Frames CC. I finished this off with a Spring Banner and love how fresh and vibrant this is.

 

Check out the rest of the hop for amazing inspiration from our Design Team!

To celebrate the new release, Mama Elephant is picking 1 winner to win a prize pack (winner will be notified in their comment on Instagram, Facebook or YouTube)! Open to Domestic & International (winner pays for shipping)

» 1. Leave a comment on the collective Design Team's Instagram Stampede post
» 2. Leave a comment on our Facebook Stampede post

» 3. Leave a comment on any of the Introduction videos on YouTube

 

Each action qualifies for one entry, max 3 entries per stampeder please and good luck!

(Winner will be announced and notified directly as a reply to the winning comment)

 

Check out the rest of the hop for amazing inspiration from our Design Team!

 

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Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day from all of us!

Mama Elephant January Designer Series

Hello crafty friends! Davina here to share my first Designer Series project of the year. The January release was full of several fun birthday themed sets, and I am especially fond of the Birthday Block stamp set. I really love this gathering of cute celebrating friends and the two large sentiments. I decided I wanted to make an interactive card with the sentiment popping up from behind the grouping, sort of like a surprise party. 

I gathered up some colorful papers and got to work. I stamped and colored my images to match the pattern paper I selected. Then, using the Pull Paper Slider Creative Cuts I cut a panel from white cardstock and the larger folding strip. I folded the strip into the accordion shape and cut a pull tab from heavy cardstock before topping it with patterned paper. Then I glued the accordion shape to the bottom of the pull tab. Next, I ink blended my panel and splattered a little ink and gold paint onto it. 

I dusted my panel and the pull tab with embossing powder to make sure it would slide smoothly, then I fed the accordion through the slot. I adhered the sentiment onto the tab to determine where I needed to place the hills, and group of characters, in order to hide the sentiment when it is in the down position. I cut a hill from the Pull Paper Slider Creative Cuts and a second taller hill from an older die set called On The Hills. Both of these were glued together, then popped up on foam tape, so the sentiment could slide behind. 

I layered two different patterned papers beneath my scene, making sure to use a circle punch to remove a half circle from behind the tab, so it could be easily accessed. Finally, I decided I needed to fill in my pink sky so that it wouldn’t look empty when the sentiment was hidden, so I cut some puffy clouds from the Display A Card Creative Cuts die set. I arranged them into the sky portion and finished it off with a few of the icons from the stamp set. 

I love the bright colors mixed with the browns, it reminds me of chocolate desserts and just seems yummy. I hope you are inspired to get out your Birthday Block stamps and create a fun interactive card like I did. Thank you for stopping by, Davina