balloons! {mama elephant stamp highlights}

Hi! Today, the Mama Elephant design team is blitzing you with stamp inspiration for both Balloon Letters and Balloon Et Cetera.

Let's get this thing started:

I couldn't help but pull out my Alpine Carolers! I stamped and masked the couple and the balloon letters and (copic) airbrushed a sky background.  I added some snow and twinkling flakes in the background and glossed up the letters.  They are balloons, after all!



I am in love with these glossy balloon letters.

Also glossy, the heart balloon:



I reached beyond Christmas to Valentine's day for this one.  I borrowed the little envelope from Pandamonium, the dotted trail from No Peeking, and curved the Cross My Heart sentiment to fit around the trail.



The cloud borders on either side frame out whole thing.

Lastly, I made a huge baby tag:

I stamped all of the animal-shaped balloons, masking and clustering them together. I added some extra shading to the solid images and then used scissors to cut them all out.



I added some blue ink to the huge tag shape and used a white gel pen to add the polka dots.  I can't wait to add this to a gift! I have a few girls in mind who will be getting larger and more rounded bellies soon - hee hee!

I hope you like them! Check out the ME blog for more balloon fun - click!

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cross my heart {mama elephant stamp highlights}

Hi there, and welcome back to another day of Mama Elephant stamp highlights!

Cross my Heart is a beautiful sentiment set, full of heartfelt greetings to express love.  It's not just for couples! I can see myself reaching for this set again and again, on cards for my kids and other family members too.

Today's card veers from my usual cutesy, colored style. It's a quicker card than I'm used to putting together, but around this time of year time is running a bit short!  I inked up a stamp block (this round wavy one from lawn fawn) with worn lipstick distress ink and then spritzed it with water before stamping down on my paper. Then, I sprayed the paper with water again and let the ink do its thing.  I spattered a tiny bit of extra ink on for good measure.

After that 5 minutes of fun, I let the paper dry overnight (under a pile of books when the ink wasn't sopping wet anymore) and then came back to it the next morning.



I heat embossed the sentiment in white (borrowing an extra "to" from one sentiment to make it work with the big scripted "love you").  I added a punch of aqua with the heart-shaped balloon, heat-embossing that with a zing embossing powder.  I love the color, but I have to admit that the zing powders are not my favorites.  They aren't as smooth as the WOW brand, in my opinion.

I added dotted lines for the balloon trail and assembled my card. I hope you like it!

Check out the ME blog this morning for more inspiration - click!

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