so happy together

Good Monday morning! I made a little something to show you using Mama Elephant's Happy Everything.  I put it together with a pair of pandas for a cutesy card that makes me happy just to look at it:

I started out by stamping the pandas and used the partial die-cutting technique to keep them joined together.

I then used the matching happy script die and cut it 4 times: twice out of aqua cardstock, once in black, and another time into the circle die-cut that would back the pandas.

I adhered the two aqua layers together for extra thickness, and then glued them onto the black layer, positioning it to look like a shadow.  I then heat-embossed the rest of the sentiment onto vellum and attached the banners in the loops of the big letters.  I love the look!

I hope you like what I created! Thanks for stopping by!

♥.

Mama Elephant October Stampede!

I'm so excited to be kicking things off for the Mama Elephant October Stampede! To celebrate their 2nd birthday, Mama Elephant is stretching the stampede into a 3-day-long affair, with different designers ready to wow you each day. All of the October products are available in the store right now.

Let's get this thing going with more Alpine Carolers, yes? I designed this set in collaboration with Kryssi and Angela and I couldn't be more excited to see what others will do with my sweet carolers!

Until you get your order in, here's my take:

All of the masking makes me a happy gal.  I bunched them together to look like a family: mom, dad, brother and sister. I know I'm missing an older sister in there (and a bald hubby, ha ha) for it to look like my family, but I'll show you what you can do for that next week.



I love the ornament and stocking and other accessories that they can hold onto. The little kids are obviously flapping them around...



I also added in the "happy" die-cut and sentiment from the featured promo set. You can see the full set - click here! It isn't in the store this month, but you can snag it for free. And you should. Skinny scripts and red embossing make it perfect for the holidays.

Mama Elephant is offering some special deals this month:

♥ there will be a 10% discount code active for the duration of the 3 day stampede blog hop (HAPPY2ME)
♥ purchases over $100 will receive the HAPPY EVERYTHING stamp set free
♥ purchases over $150 will receive the HAPPY EVERYTHING stamp set and HAPPY SCRIPT die free.

AND, as usual there are giveaways!  Mama Elephant is giving away THREE $25 gift certificates each day of the stampede blog hop, for a total of 9 winners. In addition, there will be exclusive prize giveaways on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.  The winners will be chosen and announced on the ME blog on Monday, October 20th.

You know what to do! Comment on this post, comment on the ME blog, follow them on facebook and twitter and good luck!

For AN EXTRA chance to win a copy of Alpine Carolers, you can enter my personal giveaway *HERE* until October 17th at midnight (EST.)

There's more to see today on these blogs:

Pamela Ho ♥ Debby Hughes ♥ Elena Roussakis (you're here!) ♥ Geralyn Sy ♥ Emily Leiphart ♥ Karolyn Loncon ♥ Kristina Werner