Showing posts with label Mama Elephant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mama Elephant. Show all posts

Monday, January 30, 2023

There is still time to play with Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #561

Hello Friends!!

I am popping in to remind you that there is still time to play with Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #561!! This challenge is all about POLKA DOTS!!!

Once again, I used an image from our sponsor, Polka Doodles. Once again, I used the Too Cute Turtle.

When I was placing the digital image, I purposely tilted it. I also mirrored it from the original. That is what is so fun about digital images!! Below is the is the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge Badge for #561.

Once again I used the internet for my turtle's colors. I used a stencil for the polka dots and a Mama Elephant sentiment.


He is kind of unusual but I LOVE how he came out!!!


Hop on over to Cupcake Inspirations Challenge to join us for this challenge. I cannot wait to see what you create!!!

Thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS day!!

Nora




 

Monday, January 23, 2023

A NEW Cupcake Inspirations Challenge!!

Hello friends!! 

I am popping in today with the NEW Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #561. This week it is all about POLKA DOTS.


I used a stencil for my polka dots and the image is from this challenge's sponsor, Polka Doodles! It is the Too Cute Turtle.

The challenge badge for Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #561 is below.


I could have colored the little turtle in red to be whimsical but instead I googled turtles and used Copic markers in realistic colors. 


My favorite is his shell!!! The sentiment is from Mama Elephant.


That is all from me today. Please hop on over to the Cupcake Inspirations Blog to join us for this challenge and to see all the designers fabulous cards.

I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS day!!

Nora


Monday, March 7, 2022

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #539

Happy Monday everyone!! It is time for a NEW Cupcake Inspirations Challenge!!! The next two weeks is a theme challenge-PETS. Below is a simple card I created for this theme.

Below is the badge for Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #539.


We have a fabulous sponsor for the two week challenge-NEWTON's NOOK. They are giving away a $25 prize to Newton's Nook Designs Shop to a random winner.

I did not have any Newton's Nook stamps so I used some pet stamps from Mama Elephant. 

This little panel has been around in my stash for a while now and I am so happy to be using it on a card. I layered the stamped square over some scrap pattern paper. 


I hope you join us this week with a fun creation. Hop on over to Cupcake Inspirations Challenge Blog to play. I cannot wait to see what you create!!!




Saturday, July 17, 2021

Christmas in July

Hi Friends!! Today I am popping in with a quick card I created for some challenges. There are a TON of challenges out there right now for Christmas Themed cards so I decided to jump on the bandwagon and create one.


I created this using this weeks AAA Card Challenge #194-A Twinchie and optional twist, Christmas in July, The Male Room Challenge #152 Christmas in July, the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge WWC320-Dawn's All About Occasions



I created this card by using Mama Elephant's Little Snowman Agenda stamps and Hello Bluebird's Holiday Flurries stamp set and Typed Christmas stamps. It isn't perfect but I tried to get the sentiment to hug the edge of the circle.

I used *Tumbled Glass Distress Ink for my "sky" and Hero Arts *Tide Pool to stamp the snowflakes. 

Clean and simple are NOT my forte but I love how this card came out!!!

That is all from me today. I thank you for taking the time to stop by!! Have a FABULOUS night!!


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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Some More Winter Cards...

Happy Hump Day!! 

Today I am popping in with a couple of more cards I created using some old and new stuff from my stash. All the little colored images were stamped and colored in over this past year. This is what I do when I have no mojo. Coloring also helps me relax and we all know we have needed that in 2020!! I added them over some backgrounds that I am OBSESSED with making. 

For my first card, I used a combination of Hello Bluebird and Mama Elephant images.


I started off by masking the background so that only a circle of the panel showed and I blended the background with Ranger Stormy Sky Distress Ink. I then stenciled some "snow" using Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil. I added the Hello Bluebird Holiday Flurries snowflakes stamped with SSS Steel Blue dye ink. 


I used Simon Says Stamps Stitched Hill dies to create two hills and die cut them to fit the circles. I used some gray and blue Copic markers to shade the hills in.


I added a house and tree from Lawn Fawn's Winter Village stamp set. I added a snowman from Mama Elephants Little Snowman Agenda set. 


I completed my card by stamping a sentiment in black using Mama Elephant's Mini Message stamp set and applying some Nuvo Glitter Accents for snow.

I am entering this card into a couple of challenges. Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge-layer it up. I layered the background up with blending, stamping and stenciling. I am also entering this card into this weeks Inkspirational Challenge #230-Mask. I masked the circle background on my card. 

For my next card, I did a series of three circles that I masked and did the same background treatment on as the first card. 

I then layered little bits that I had colored in previously, as well as die cuts, to create my scene.

The elves are from Mama Elephant's Little Elf Agenda. The presents are from My Favorite Things Birdie Brown set Jingle All The Way and the wagon is from the Lawn Fawn's Lets Go Nuts stamp set. I was not lying when I said I mixed a ton of companies together!!


I cannot tell you who made the snowflakes as I have a container filled with them from different companies. I like that I have them ready to take out and use on a whim. 

My sentiment is from the same Mama Elephant set as above. (excuse that little heart you see in the photo on the snowflake. Apparently it was on my desk and stuck to it and I didn't notice until I was going through the photos!)

I am entering this card into some challenges as well. Darling Cardmakers Winter Blessings Badge-I used the snowflake as my inspiration. I am entering this card into Addicted to Stamps and More... Make Your Mark Challenge for all the coloring I did on these images. 

Well that is all from me today. I thank you for taking the time to stop by today. Have a FABULOUS day!



Sunday, January 10, 2021

Popping In....

 Hello everyone!! Long time no post...or only posting for my DT gig!! I have been busy PURGING and moving my craft room upstairs and it is taking me a long time. I am NOT great at getting rid of craft items. I can purge anything else in the my house EXCEPT craft items. I hate that about myself.

Today I am popping in with a card for some challenges. Each was made by using stuff I had colored in a while ago and a bunch of stenciling/stamping/blending on the background.

I created a snowman scene.

I used a combination of Mama Elephant Little Snowman Agenda Stamps and Dies. The Snowflake die cut is Mama Elephant's Winter Taggins

I used Stormy Sky Distress Ink to blend the background and Simon Says Stamps Falling Snow stencil. 


The stamped snowflakes are Hello Bluebirds Holiday Flurry Stamps and the sentiment is from their Frosty Friends.

I am entering this into some challenges. Just Us Girls #566-Use a Stencil, Happy Little Stampers-Anything Goes with Dies, The Jingle Bells's Challenge-something old and something new-(old-snowman, snowflake die-new-snowflake stamp) and Darling Cardmakers Inspiration badge-snowman and snowflakes. 


That is all from me tonight. I hope you have a FABULOUS Monday!!



Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Day 3 Homework

 Happy Wednesday!! Just popping in with my projects from Day 3 homework for my Watercolor Christmas Class. I like these cards a bit better BUT I will never just be able to do a one layer anything I have decided.

My first card was a card with some simple trees. 


Again, I got a little heavy handed on my trees with the paint. They were lighter but I kept trying to blend and then this is what happened. 


Since I spent so much time on them, I decided that even if I didn't love them, I was making a card anyway. I created a gold frame from some gold foil cardstock using the Waffle Flower Frame dies.

I also heat embossed a sentiment from PTI at the bottom.

There was another cards I was supposed to do with a different technique with trees BUT the masking medium I used was a disaster so I threw it away.

My third card was to create an ornament without any masking. This was actually kind of fun. The watercolor did not blend like I wanted BUT it came out way better than my other cards from the first two days.

I chose to adde a silver piece of mirrored cardstock for the top of the ornament and some silver thread as a bow.

The heat embossed sentiment is from Mama Elephant.

I actually thought that this card technique was relaxing. I liked trying to keep the paint within the circle and I did slowly layer the color down. Not perfect but getting better!!!

That is all from me today. I thank you for taking the time to stop by!! Have a FABULOUS day!!



Sunday, August 2, 2020

Missing You with The Greetery and a Couple of Challenge Cards

Happy Sunday everyone!!!

Have been playing this week in my craft room. I stamped  a BUNCH of images from some sets by The Greetery and some backgrounds using Pinkfresh Studios Pop Out Stamps to create two cards for some challenges. 

For my first card, I used two challenges as inspiration for my card.


I used the sketch from Fab Friday #195 and Watercooler Wednesdays #282 Anything Goes Challenge. 


I created the striped background paper and had fun layering my flowers in The Greetery watering can.


As I was creating this card, I was thinking of "styles" of cards and trying to figure out if I had a set style. I don't think I really do. I like all types of stamps-critters, flowers, solid stamps, line stamps-and adore any kind of paper-colored cardstock, white, pattern paper. I think if I had to pick any kind of "style" that I have is that I layer things. One layer cards are too hard to make because I always mess them up!!


I actually was not sure I was going to even like this card when it was done because of the bold background. However, it has grown on me.

My second card was inspired by my first, no challenges. Instead of the watering can, I used a mason jar for my flowers. 


The frame was die cut with a Reverse Confetti die and was hanging around on my desk so I decided to layer it over the background I created.


The sentiment tag and sentiment is from Mama Elephant.  I just LOVE tiny tags!!


I used a little too much Aqua Clear Shimmer on the flowers. It was a new pen and it kind of globbed out!! You can see it in the photos more than IRL.

Well, that is all from me today. I hope you all have a great night!!




Supplies:
(Some links are affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Affiliate links in bold)

Stamps: Pink Fresh Studios Pop Out Diagonal Stripes and Chevron Background, The Greetery Budding Beauties Summer, Budding Beauties Spring, Budding Beauties Winter, Sprinkled With Kindness, Just Mason AroundThe Ink Blot Shop Sentiment Label Blocks, Mama Elephant Mini Everyday Messages
Dies: Reverse Confetti Frame, The Greetery, MFT
Ink: Hero Arts Soft Pool, Tide Pool, Ocean, Lemon Yellow, Pinkfresh Studios Island Oasis cubes and Morning Sky cubes
Other: MISTI, 3M Foam Adhesive, Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss White, Sequins, Ranger Multi Matte