Designer Series: “Herd” It’s Your Birthday

Hello crafty friends! Davina here, to share my Mama Elephant Designer Series project. I am calling this slimline shaker card ‘Herd’ It’s Your Birthday, and I love the hot pink farm theme. The January Mama Elephant release is so adorable, with all of the farm themed products, and I combined quite a few on this landscape card. 

I used the Slim Card Basics CC die set to cut the card base from hot pink cardstock, the pink gingham top layer with windows, and the white scalloped frame. I’ve been on a mission to put a dent into the sequin collection I have amassed, so don’t be shocked when I make a million shakers. I inked a bright blue sky onto a back panel the same size as the gingham layer, and framed it in with foam tape after placing a little red farm house in the top left corner. I filled it in with lots of bright clay confetti and added a grassy strip over the acetate, but under the gingham.

I stamped the farm house, flowers, and hay bales from the Little Agenda House stamp set. I know the hay images were intended to be bushes, but they worked perfectly for my farm scene hay piles. Then, I added a white picket fence that I cut using the Farm House CC die set. I cut two and covered the seam up with a little cow image. Next, I stamped a bunch of adorable teeny cows from the Little Cow Agenda stamps, and colored each differently. I arranged them across the bottom of my scene and got to work on my sentiment. I made a custom punny banner using the smaller Little Signage Agenda stamp set. The letter size was perfect. Once adhered, I glued some tiny iridescent stars all around the top. 

Mixing and combining stamp sets is my favorite technique for making unique cards and scenes. I hope that you enjoy this scene, and 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- Little Postage Agenda

 Hello crafty friends! Today is the final day of the January release Mama Elephant Stamp Highlights. It has been such an honor to participate with the extremely talented Design Team this month and I wanted to thank everyone for all of their encouragement and sweet words. Today we are showcasing the super adorable agenda set called “Little Postage Agenda”. I really love this set and that it has a couple of blank stamps that you can fill with the included words images, or with any of the extremely cute Little Agenda sets. I use these agenda sets so much and love the versatility of the small detailed images. 

I created a slimline card that I wanted to look like a fancy decorated envelope. I started with some patterned paper that I layered a sweet pink layer on top of. I die cut the pink cardstock with the postage die from the “Slim Film City” creative cuts die set. I gently inked the edges with a pink ink to give some depth, then stamped a pair of large flowers from the “Peonies In Bloom” using pink dye ink. In the center of the layer, I heat embossed the word Gorgeous from the “Scripty Notes” stamps, then cut the word Hello  from white cardstock using the “Whimsy Alphas” creative Cuts. 

I stamped the postage stamps from “Little Postage Agendas” and created two custom stamps. Then I colored them up with copic markers and die cut using the coordinating dies. I arranged the stamps in the right upper corner then adhered the “hello” and stamped a couple of the smaller images from the set in different ink to make it look like it was a savvy traveler with all kinds of stamps and seals. 

This cute slimline ended up being my favorite project of the bunch and I just can’t stop smiling at it. I can’t wait to see what kind of projects you guys create with this release. I will include links for all of the products used below, to the Mama Elephant shop

Little Postage Agenda stamps

Little Postage Agenda Creative Cuts

Slim Film City Creative Cuts

Scripty Notes stamps

Peonies in Bloom stamps

Whimsy Alphas Creative cuts

Little Bear Agenda stamps

Thank you so much for stopping by, please make sure to visit the Mama Elephant Blog to see the inspiration from the Design Team! 

Davina