Mama Elephant May Designer Series

Hello crafty friends! Davina here, bringing some fun summer inspiration. The May Mama Elephant release is here, and full of congratulations, adventure, and punny plant vibes. I am especially drawn to the two plant picks stamp sets, Build a Potted Plant & Plant Picks, and all of their punny sentiments. I always love adding small little sentiments and words to my cards, and these sets make it so fun to add many of those additions. I also wanted to use the new Insta Grid Creative Cuts that is a square cover plate measuring 4.25x4.25, and I decided to layer dies and make a shaker. 

I’ve been on a personal mission to focus on using some beautiful patterned papers and colors the whole month of May. I’ve been using all of the papers and their remnants for several weeks and I have such a sense of satisfaction at using up my hoarded papers and scraps. These colors are very beautiful to me and scream summer, so I’ve enjoyed seeing all of my coordinating projects. Creating is so much faster when you aren’t deciding on what colors to use and what matches. I’ve become very attached to not having to make so many choices and not spending so much time on making decisions. 

As my supply of patterned papers dwindles down to small remnants, I thought the small grid squares of the Insta Grid was perfect for putting my pieces to good use. Once assembled, I felt as it was a little too busy without some sort of border and I cut a creamy frame using another cover plate called Square Grid Cover. This die cut frame perfectly layered on top, giving my patterned squares some definition and detail. I cut another layer from dark pink cardstock, then carefully placed it in the Insta Grid Die Set to cut out the frame. I mounted that using foam tape and acetate to make a shaker. 

I stamped several small plants and cutie critters from the Little Succulent Agenda and It’s Okay stamp sets to make my plant shelves. Once colored and cut out I arranged my shelves and added their plant pick sentiments from Build a Potted Plant. I mounted my shaker onto a slightly larger peach colored layer sized at 4.5x4.5, and added a creamy sentiment banner from Spring Banner Greetings. These little die cut banners are one of my most favorite details to add to my cards. The contrasting color of the layers give the perfect pop of detail. 

I finished this card off with the addition of a layered die cut tag and piece of pink twine at the top. I love all the small gold details, from the gold foil on the paper to the gold sequins in the shaker, it really just makes me happy. I hope you enjoy this pretty pop of summer and hope you are as inspired by the new release as much as I am. Thank you for stopping by, 

Davina 

Mama Elephant April Designer Series

Hello crafty friends! Davina here with my April Designer Series project. This new April Mama Elephant release is jam packed with so much “gaming” goodness, and fun “Vegas” vibes. I especially love the card making set called Playing Cards, with its cute Royal icons and all of the suits and numbers. Having grown up and lived in Las Vegas for the majority of my life, I’m very much drawn to this set. 

I wanted to make a poker themed card, but with a pretty custom deck of playing cards. I’ve had some beautiful patterned papers for the past several years, that remind me of the gorgeous Rifle Paper Co. products, and I knew the time to stop hoarding it was now. I made 5 playing cards for my poker hand, all double layered so they would stand out against the pattern, and stamped and colored the two face up cards. 

The card base for this card is 5x6.5 with a stitched A2 sized layer in the center, and a striped layer to fill some of the negative space. I wanted to make sure I had enough room to fit the cards fanned out, and add my poker chips. I stamped several poker chips from the new set Lady Luck, and arranged them on each side of my cards, to look like my bet. Finally, I made a long dovetail banner and stamped a custom sentiment using the Little Signage Agenda alphabet stamps. 

I really love the creamy undertones on this card, paired with the pretty patterned papers and small gold details. On the inside of the card I stamped a sentiment from the Let’s Game Sayings sentiment set. And to finish off the whole scene, I tucked a tag with twine behind the cards.  

I hope you like this card. I think it’s so pretty and nice to have a set that makes it simple to create more grown up cards, but still have the super adorable illustrations. Thank you for stopping by, Davina 

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 

Mama Elephant 12th Anniversary Stampede and Blog Hop

 

 

Happy Anniversary to you and ME! We are celebrating 12 years of being in this wonderful industry full of kind people who share the love of crafting and making new friends! We had never imagined being in such a more inspirational community full of color, love and joy! 

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Today I’m sharing a very special project I made using many stamp and die sets from Mama Elephant. I will have more detailed pictures and a video on my Instagram so please head over there to see more. The main images I focused on for this Tri-Fold design is the beautiful new The Nutcracker stamp set and creative cuts. 

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

To celebrate Mama Elephant will pick three random winners per Stampede day the collective Design Team and Guest Designer's Stampede posts (Instagram, Facebook or YouTube) to win a $25 gift card to mamaelephant.com, so let's get to it and hop along with us!

9/15 STAMPEDE DAY 1

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@jennifermcguireink

@jessicafrostballas

@twiddlersnook

@vera_rhuhay

@popsiclesticks

9/16 STAMPEDE DAY 2

@mamaelephant

@laurafadora

@christygetscrafty

@nguyenindoubt_makecards

@nicholspohr

@dasmimz

9/17 STAMPEDE DAY 3

@mamaelephant

@starofmay

@pinkpeppermintcards

@craftee1

@cre8iveli

@craftmusubi

And don't forget our promotion celebration!

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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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Hello crafty friends! I’m so happy to be participating in the March Mama Elephant Blog Hop. This rerelease is simply adorable with so many different styles of stamp sets but all from a “celebration” theme. The project I’m sharing is using the new Little Agenda Ice Cream stamp and CC set. The LItlle Agenda series is my favorite series of all time. I love putting tons of images onto little mini scenes and these are perfect for creating my favorite types of projects. I also love that they all play together perfectly because they are all illustrated in the same style. 

I made a Slimline sized card using the Slim Card Basics CC die set, and all of the images from the Little Agenda Ice Cream stamp set. I cut 3 grassy layers from colored cardstock, and gently inked the grass tops in a darker Mowed Lawn green. I also tucked an inked wavy brown layer in between for my ice cream truck to park on. I colored all of my images in colors found ion the plaid patterned background paper, and die cut with the coordinating Creative Cuts. 

I added a sun and cloud into the sky from the Beary Good Day stamp set and the cutest popsicle hamster ever from an exclusive collaboration with Ellen Hutson. That set is no longer available, but that is why it is so important to always grab those limited edition sets, because over a year later, TaDaaaaaa! Essential images hahaha. I finished this card off with a great little sentiment from the new Way To Go sentiment set. These sentiment sets are also my favorites with their fun font and great size.

I really love this littler masterpiece and I hope you do too. Now go hop along for your chance to win and see all the amazing inspiration from the Design Team, Davina.

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!

 

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

 

@mamaelephant
@vera_rhuhay

@nicholspohr

@dasmimz

@popsiclesticks

@cre8iveli

 

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

 

March Release with The Greeting Farm

The March 2024 New Release is now available for purchase in The Greeting Farm Store. This month we introduced 3 new stamp sets. Our first set called BAKING ANYA features Anya with a mixing bowl and cute cupcake earrings ready to bake up some yummy goodness with love. Next, we brought you BIRTHDAY CATS to wish your friends and family a very happy purr-thday! Our final set called FEEL BETTER has a big Anya and Ian sending get well wishes.

Today I’m sharing a card I made with the new Baking Anya stamp set  I layered her over an inky rainbow background full of heart streamers. I also made a tiered trayof her delicious cupcakes and finished it off with some black accents and banners. I love how easy it is to create full fun scenes with the nice large Anya images and all of the fabulous accessories.

To celebrate this release we are having a short BLOG HOP! One lucky fan will take home the entire release!! You have until March 18th, 12pm CST/1pm EST to leave your comments on each Designer's Blog. Then head back to The Greeting Farm Blog to let us know you completed the hop.

**Remember to qualify for the prize you MUST leave a comment on each Designer's Blog AND The Greeting Farm Blog letting us know you completed the hop.

NOTE: Comments on The Greeting Farm Blog are admin approved so it may take a day for your comment to be visible. Please only comment once, and use the same name on all the blogs when leaving a comment. Do not pick the Anonymous option (otherwise we won't be able to verify that it's you).

We will announce the random winner later in the week on the Blog and in our Facebook Group: The Greeting Farm Fan Page.

TGF Design Team:
Cynthia
Davina
Elisabete
Meg

This is a short hop and definitely worth playing along! If you want to grab your favorites now, you can purchase the new stamps HERE. We will have more cards featuring the New Release from our Design Team Leaders starting on the 20th so be sure to stop by The Greeting Farm Blog to see more inspiration.

Happy Hopping!

Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight: Surprise Boxes

Hello crafty friends! Today is the final day of the Mama Elephant Stamp Highlights, and we are going out with a bang. The card I made today features the Surprise Boxes stamps and Creative Cuts combined with the new Square Grid Cover Creative Cuts. 

This 9 grid cover plate makes it so easy and fun to make unique shaker cards. I added a cloudy border to the front of the grid, and made my sequin filled shaker atop an inkblended aqua panel. After stamping these adorable images and coloring with copic markers, I cut them out using the coordinating die cuts. I love the cute gift wrapping accessories and layered them across the bottom. I cut two speech bubbles from black card stock using the Simple Friends Bubbles CC, then heat embossed sentiments from Surprise Boxes stamp set.

I mounted this shaker grid onto a fuchsia 4.5 X 4.5 card base, and finished it off with a few of the assorted sequins. Make sure to head over to the Mama Elephant blog to see the entire release and more inspiration from the Design Team. Thank you for stopping by,

Davina 

Mama Elephant Stamp Highlights: Simple Friends Bubbles

Hello crafty friends! Today Mama Elephant is featuring the Simple Friends Bubbles stamp set and Creative Cuts. This is such a great little combo for adding colorful sentiments to your projects. The coordinating dies make it a snap to cut out all of the bubbles in one pass of the machine. Each sentiment is a friendship themed sentiment but even better are the outline stamps that make it possible to create your own bubbles using sentiment stamps. 

My project today uses the Simple Friends Bubbles set paired with the new Surprise Boxes stamps. I stamped the sentiment bubbles with different pastel shades of Distress Oxide Inks, to match the copic colors I used on the critters from the Surprise Boxes set. I created a square shaped scene for the upper half of my card, to make a Polaroid type scene. I put the word bubbles into the cloudy upper area and layered my images onto the grassy inkblended background. 

I used the Lucky Alpha Creative Cuts to create a layered sentiment across the bottom. And shaded it to match my lavender sky. I finished of these letters with a glittery finish from my Wink of Stella brush, and a sprinkling of teeny iridescent stars across the sky. 

Make sure you head over to the Mama Elephant blog to see more of the release and lost of inspiration from the Design Team. Thank you for stopping by,

Davina 

Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight: Little Cow Agenda

Hello crafty friends! Today Mama Elephant is featuring the Little Cow Agenda Stamps & Creative Cuts. I am such a huge fan of all of the Agenda stamp sets. They are just the cutest, and make it so easy and fun to fill up a scene. These little cows are no exception. I combined these adorable little cows with the new Farm House CC to make a whole farm scene, and just love how this card turned out. 

First I made the barn out of bright red card stock with crisp white trim. I gently inked the edges of the barn for some added depth, and popped it up on foam tape. I layered it over ink blended sky and grassy lawn with the smallest hint of the white fence showing on each side. 

I added my Little Agenda Cows around the barn door and a few stacks of hay into the upper window. I finished the scene with a speech bubble from the new Simple Friends Bubble CC and a sentiment from the Boxed Drinks Stamp set. I added a clean white mat layer and a nice bright striped layer to really make the farm scene pop.

Thank you so much for stopping by, make sure to check out the Mama Elephant Blog to see all of the new products and great inspiration. 

Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight Capybara Christmas

Hello crafty friends. I’m so happy to be a part of Mama Elephants spectacular 11th birthday celebration release. Today we are kicking off the stamp highlights with the Capybara Christmas  stamps and Creative Cuts (CC). I really think this set is so cute and I especially love that they are themed with Christmas accessories making them perfect for fun and playful  holiday cards.

 I combined these adorable images with the new Sweet Shop Frame CC that has the sweetest tiny scallop edge detail, a candy mint and a set of tags. I also added a layered bow from the Mini Bow Box CC set. 

After stamping out the images I colored everything with COPIC markers and cut out using the coordinating Creative Cuts. I added small white highlights then adhered them onto my Sweet Shop frame that I cut out twice and glued together. I arranged the images towards the bottoms so my embossed sentiment would be visible. Then I added my pink inkblended bow. I finished this off by layering over some bright plaid-like patterned paper and adding few star sequins. 

Make sure to head over to the Mama Elephant blog and Instagram feed to see all of the incredible inspiration, and to hop along for your chance to win! 

Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight Boxed Drinks

Hello Crafty friends! I’m back with another Stamp Highlight for Mama Elephant Stamps, and today we are featuring Boxed Drinks. This adorable set has 2 different juice box shapes and several cute critters with fruit, and the coordinating dies ar perfect for making shakers. 

I just loved the little milk carton shaped box so much that I couldn’t help but make a strawberry milk themed card.  I put a pair of cute cows and a hamster up front with some pink strawberries, and arranged everything onto some grassy layers over a bright inkblended sky. I embossed a white sentiment from the set, that I combined with some Lucky Alphas  creative cuts. 

I finished this off with some playful patterned paper and a few little puffy clouds from the Little Agenda Airplanes stamp set. I hope you like this sweet little card and take the time to check out the rest of the talented Design Team projects for more inspiration for the Boxed Drinks Stamp set. Thanks you for stopping by, Davina 

 

Welcome back to day 3 of Stampede! Today we continue our celebration with fabulous project ideas and inspiration!

I’m so honored to be participating with the Mama Elephant team and this gorgeous holiday release. I created a fun winter wonderland using the new Busy Elves Stamps that I nestled into a soft pink pop up boxcard. I created the 3D Pop Up Box  with sturdy colored cardstock that I layered with fun patterned papers and images. I stamped my elves with brown ink before coloring with copic markers and assembling them into the inserts. On the front flap I used my favorite Everything Nice Sentiment Stamps that have the best coordinating dies, and paired it with one of the cute images. 

Check out the entire release at www.mamaelephant.com and don’t forget to hop along to see all of the amazing inspiration.

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

To celebrate the new release, Mama Elephant is picking 1 winner to win a prize pack! 

» 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!

Open to US entries only.

 

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

Laura Bassen @laurafadora

http://www.laurafadora.com

Caly Person @calyperson

https://calyperson.com

Davina Cantrell @popsiclesticks

https://popsiclestickscreates.blogspot.com

 
Thi Lam @lemonteacrafts

http://www.lemonteacrafts.com

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

 

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Pretty Pink Posh March Release Blog Hop

Hello crafty friends! I’m very excited to be participating with the incredible Pretty Pink Posh design team this month, as a guest designer. This release is available now and full of the cutest spring and Easter themed stamp and die sets, as well as several generous giveaways. I’ve created quite a few projects with them, but for todays blog hop, I would like to share a fun gold embossed shaker card with you. 

For this inky beauty, I stamped and heat embossed the grand image from Easter Wreath, along with many of the smaller images, then I colored them with Zig Real Brush markers. After using the coordinating dies to cut out my images, I adhered a circle of acetate behind the wreath. I mounted it upon an inkblended background that I splattered with white and gold ink. I added a heaping teaspoon of spring colored clay confetti to the center before securing firmly with foam tape. I used a patterned paper layer to ground the scene, then created a row of images along the bottom. To finish this off, I stamped the sentiment from the set into a straight line, then heat embossed with more gold. I really love how bold this turned out. 

And now for the juicy details of the blog hop! There will be 3 $25 gift certificates awarded, one winner each day. Winners will be chosen randomly along the blog hops, so make sure you leave a comment at each stop. Comments must be left by 11:59 pm est on 3/20/2022  and the winners will be announced on the PPP blog. 

Thank you so much for stopping by, Your next stop along the blog hop is Elaine 

Pretty Pink Posh blog 
Mona Toth
Rebecca Keppel
Davina Cantrell ( you are here)
Elaine Wakeling
Dana Kirby
Jeanne Jachna

Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight: Celebration Hamsters

 Hello crafty friends! Today Mama Elephant  is highlighting the super cute stamps and creative cuts Celebration Hamsters. I really love the cute hamster and the all the little party poses! I can’t pick a favorite image, they are all so great. I really enjoy that they match the small images from Little Hamster Agenda too. I really wanted to make a large slimline card for these cuties, so I would have plenty of room for very image and a large sentiment. 

I started by cutting an aqua panel using the new B2B Slimline CC dies. I like that little bit of extra space these dies give you. They perfectly divide a standard 8.5 x 11 card into 3 equal sized pieces. That means I had plenty of room for these cute critters to fit on my scene. I made a glittery scalloped panel using the Slim Card Basics CC, and then a third panel from Bristol Smooth Cardstock using the the 2nd largest B2B slimline CC. I inked that panel with bright pink ink and gave a few splatters with glittery perfect pearls and white ink. 

I stamped and colored all of the images using copic markers before cutting out with the coordinating dies. I arranged all of my images onto the scene leaving a few inches in the white bottom space for my sentiment. I stamped a lovely sentiment from Wishes Enclosed and adhered it to the open area. I decided I wanted a few little extra embellishments, so I stamped and colored the stars that are included in the set and glued them down around my images. 

This entire release is amazing, and is so fun to create with. I hope you enjoy this card and get inspired to get crafty this weekend. Don’t forget to drop by the Mama Elephant Blog  to see all the wonderful cards from the entire team. Thank you for stopping by, Davina  

Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight- To My Dearest

 Hello crafty friends! I’m so happy you stopped by, today we are highlighting the adorable new set called “To My Dearest”. I created a soft slimline card that also features a new die set, called “Combo Circles- Creative Cuts”. 

I started by cutting a scalloped panel for my base layer, from striped patterned paper. I used the “Slim Card Basics-Creative Cuts” set for the scallop and for the smaller stitched panel that is layered on top. Next, I cut 6 scalloped circles from a soft coral cardstock. I gently inked around the edges of 3 of them, then layered alternating pairs of scallops to make full scallop circles. I used the stitched circles in the appropriate size, to adhere to center after inking them a deep blue and gently splattering. 

I stamped and copic colored the cute envelope images, before cutting them out with the coordinating creative cuts. Then I added small white dot highlights before glueing them onto my inked scallop circles. I arranged the 3 scalloped images onto my slimline before adding two small little hearts from the set. 

Normally, I’d go overboard adding all kinds of images and sequins etc., but this sweet slimline felt complete, and I was really smitten with the simplicity. I hope you like my card as much as I do. I will add links to all of the Mama Elephant products used below. 

Slim Card Basics- Creative Cuts

To My Dearest

To My Dearest -Creative Cuts

Combo Circle - Creative Cuts

Thank you for stopping by, make sure you visit the Mama Elephant Blog to see all of the amazing inspiration from the design team,

Davina