Hooray! {mama elephant designer series}

Hey there!

It's been quiet on the blog lately (let's blame the beautiful weather) but I'm here and on the Mama Elephant blog today sharing a card I made with the beautifully hand-lettered "splendid."

I started out with a white cardstock panel and stamped the open diamond pattern (from on point borders) to cover the entire piece.  Then, I heat-embossed the amazing sentiment with a blue embossing powder.  I kind of love how you can still see the diamond pattern through the sentiment!

I used some of the accents included in splendid to add fun touches to my card: the bird and the spray of stars.  I hand-cut the bird and popped him up, but the stars were stamped directly on top of the base pattern.  I think little differences like that give levels of interest to a card.

Finally, I cut apart a femme frames die-cut so that I could slip a tiny scallop border on either end of my focal panel.

I hope you like my card! Thanks for stopping by.

♥.

be awesome {mama elephant stamp highlight}

Hi there, and welcome back to another day of Mama Elephant May stamp highlights! We're showing off Splendid today, a beautiful follow-up to the popular hand-lettered set, Make a Wish.

I have two cards to show off today, both using my favorite sentiment:



My first card features the sentiment embossed in pink, framed in a light blue and tied together with a pink paper bow.  I stamped the stripes in the background in white ink and called it done.

My second card features the same sentiment and some original artwork:

I drew the girl, and her bird-shaped balloon with a 0.3 copic multiliner pen and then colored her in with copic markers.  She's naturally adjusting her crown.  The background panel was stamped with the triangle strip from on-point borders, and I threw on some paper confetti to finish things off.

I hope you like my cards! Click over to the mama elephant blog today for more splendid inspiration!

♥.

smile! {mama elephant designer spotlight}

Hey there! I'm on the Mama Elephant blog this morning, with this card:

I started out by creating my card base, simply stamping the triangle pattern from on point borders to cover the entire area.  I sponged around the edges in a dark grey ink and set it aside (I can't help it, everything looks unfinished to me without sponged edges. Is there a support group for that?)

Then, I set about creating my focal panel.  I used post-it strips to create a random geometric pattern, and sponged on different colors, really working them in to make sure that I got saturated color. I wanted the colors to really pop in contrast to the black and white card base.

Then, using sketchy letters, I spelled out "you are" to compliment the wonderful script font of the everyday greeting sentiment. I overlapped them a little, so that they looked like one cohesive unit.

I didn't want the whole card to be flat, so I cut out a "smile" speech bubble and popped it up over the sentiments.  In passing, the speech bubble die from just hatched matches the hello speech bubble from everyday greetings, but not this smile one (which is facing the opposite direction.)

I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

♥.

she's fierce {mama elephant stamp highlight}

Welcome back to the last day of Mama Elephant stamp highlights!  We're showing off the new set, everyday greetings.  It really is a great, all occasion set, with fantastic fonts.

I paired the sentiment (perfect for a new baby, isn't it?) with the little birdie from just hatched.  The little speech bubble from everyday greetings is my fave.



Flanking the sentiment and birdie, I did a watercolor treatment over some clear-embossing. The on point triangle border stamp then got die-cut with the cloud border.



I stamped the sentiment so that it overlapped on either side of the cloud border.

I hope you like it! Check out more inspiration on the ME blog today.

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hoot. {mama elephant stamp highlight}

Hi there! I'm back again today with Mama Elephant, highlighting their new on point borders set.

It's a hoot:

For the record, I knew that Laura would stamp these in her gorgeous, signature rainbow colors. It almost made me go a different route. ha. I chose a more subdued rainbow palette, and got busy with the square border.

After stamping the border to fill the tag, I die-cut an owl shape into (what I eyeballed to be) the center of the tag. I stamped the coordinating owl image onto another white tag, and popped the rainbow tag onto foam squares over-top.



I love his little blushy cheeks, don't you?

Check out the ME blog for more inspiration today!

♥.