Mama Elephant Designer Series

Hello crafty friends! Davina here with you to share my Designer Series project. Today I have a bursting at the seem box card, that I made using some of the newly released products, and a few images from a couple of christmases ago. 

I really wanted to capture a festive North Pole candy land type scene and the new Little Agenda Sweets was the inspiration for my card. Initially, I didn’t plan on making a box card, but I stamped out most of the images before I had a design in place. Next, I cut out the larger arched panels using the B2B Arches CC die set. After coloring my images and die cutting with the Coordinating dies, I quickly realized I was going to need more real estate. I used some dies from my stash to cut the side panels and stitched layers from remnants of cute patterned papers I had accumulated, and assembled the box card onto the B2B Arches. Next, I cut some inserts from more matching papers and began adhering the images into place. 

The large gingerbread house went in the back since it would take up all of the space, then I put the little cart in the middle with the adorable llama perched in the opening. I surrounded the cart with large staggered candy canes, and placed the cutest little trio onto the first layer. I added Santa & Mrs. Claus (with a reindeer) from the set called Secret Santa, along with Santa’s bag of toys and a glittery candy. 

To finish this box card off, I used a shimmery white wavy banner from Winter Banner Greetings CC die set, that i surrounded completely with candy and the shop sign from the Little Agenda Sweets set. I love being able to stamp the sign with colored ink (pro tip- use distress oxide ink for small sentiments so it doesn’t stain your stamps pink!) Every single layer of this card is glittery with both chunky glitter accents and sparkly Wink of Stella. 

I hope you love this little card as much as I do, thank you for stopping by, 

Davina 

Mama Elephant Designer Series Jar of Hearts

Hello crafty friends! Davina here, to share a sweet slimline card I made using lots of beautiful Mama Elephant products. my Designer Series project I couldn’t resist using the wonderful new Jar of Hearts stamps and Creative Cuts. I especially love the delicate bow and detailed lid, and how the dies cut them so perfectly and remove the little parts in the loops. 

I decided to try and create a little gingerbread village across a slimline scene, and I only wish it had enough room for a sentiment on the front. Even though I couldn’t fit a sentiment on the cover, I really love how this candy cane lane. 

I started by stamping out the jar, bow and lid 3 times. I heat embossed the lid on a shimmery cream paper that I gently inked the edges after die cutting. I also die cut 3 snow drifts using the jar die, and gently inking those with a very light blue. 

I stamped and heat embossed some little houses and trees from Little Agenda Houses and a few cute cutie gingerbread men from Little Agenda Gingerbread onto Kraft cardstock. Then built my little jar scenes. After lining them up on the Slim Film City scallop layers I added some candy cane and gumdrop images that I stamped from Holiday Huggers and again the Little Agenda Gingerbread sets. I colored everything in shades of pink and added some sparkle from a Wink of Stella glitter pen. 

I really love combining lots of sets and using them in unique ways. And if these little gingerbread jars don’t convince you to grab your Jar of Hearts stamp set and fill them to your hearts content, then I don’t know what will. I hope I’ve inspired you, just a little bit, with this card and that you make some gingerbread homes of your own. Thank you for stopping by,

Davina