A good day to be happy

Hello.

I have been having a sort out of all my stamps and thought I would use some of my older sets...they need love too :)

So i am using some Mama Elephant products.

I have used peek a frame dies, Index card dies and up and away stamp set.

I die-cut the panels firsts from white card and some polka dot paper from Lawn fawn.

The peek a frame dies only cut one side so its like a door opening but i turned it around and die-cut it twice so it was a separate piece.

I masked an area just smaller than the peek a frame and coloured it with distress ink and then added some water droplets and glimmer mist, it actually makes a cool bokeh effect. 

The parts of the frame that were left i stamped the three little critters on from up and away in momento ink and coloured with copics.

Then i fussy cut them and added into the frame that i had adhered to the panel.

Then i stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set.

I didnt add any extra embellishments as i wanted a flat card for mailing.

 

Thanks for looking.

Sending smiles

Hello.

I decided to go through my stamps and find a set that i hadn't used in a while.

I came across my mama elephant stash and new what i wanted to create straight away.

I started by die cutting a  stitched rectangle from Lawn fawn and then  i die cut that using the landscape trio creative cuts. 

I die cut randomly but wanted the empty the cuts to all start at one point and fan out. 

I paced the die cut over my card blank and dew roughly were the sequins were to go then set about sticking the sequins on ...double sided tape is a godsend for this type of project.

Once all in place i added the die cut panel on lots of foam tape to hold it in place.

The sentiment was stamped on top the panel with black archival ink. 

The bunny and the balloons from up and away were stamped onto watercolour card and coloured with watercolour pens before being fussy cut and added on to the panel. 

I didn't stamp the balloon strings and have instead used some thread just for an extra detail.

 

Thanks for looking.

Mama Elephant

Hello.

Mama Elephant stamps have landed at Make the day special.

I know us DT girls are all very please about this :)

I didn't know which set to use for my card today so i went with two.

The card above uses Up and away.

This is a really cute set with little characters along with accessories and sentiments.

I used the little foxy and balloons, they are all coloured with copics.

There was lots of masking inking and spritzing going on  to get the sky and clouds and to get the balloons behind the head rather than over his cute little face lol.

The balloons are really 3D i will try and get a close up picture as you cant see it at all .

I used a round embossing tool to make each balloon rounded so it wasn't a flat image then raised it up on two lots of sticky foam.

This card uses the beautiful Water Blooms set.

It comes with groups of flowers ready to stamp and single flowers, leaves  and 3 sentiments.

I wanted a different feel for this card  so raided my momento inks for oranges and browns.

The flowers are all fussy cut and are all at different levels so its not just flat.

Added a doily some twine and ink blots and liquid pearls.

Look out for Emily's winners post :) Good luck

Thanks for looking.