New Designs from Mama Elephant
Hi readers! TGIF! I’m so happy to be sharing with you this adorable card using new Mama Elephant stamps and dies by our guest designer of the day, Elena Roussakis! I love the texture she added to the background, and her coloring is just flawless! Enjoy!
Hi there! I’m so excited to be guesting on the Simon Says Stamp blog today. I crafted a fun card using new Mama Elephant stamps sets: tandem ride and tandem extras. I just love these fun critters with their huge heads! I decided to create a little scene for the bike riding friends, by way of a sun ray stencil and some embossing paste.
If you decide to try and re-create this card, just be warned that the stencil’s rays don’t actually reach to the edges of the card. But the fix is simple: just let the first layer dry while you color images, and then come back and stretch them out with a second coat of paste.
Once all of the layers of embossing paste were dry, I used a very light blue Copic marker (BOOO) to add shading between the rays. I also used a colorless blender (O) to soften the edge of the blue streaks.
For the focal image, I did some masking to make it look like the little mouse (with her gigantic ears) were at the forefront. Then, I used the partial die-cut technique to have the whole image cut out as one unit. I love how clean it looks without the white border around each critter!
To finish things off, I created a mint-green hill for the bike to roll on, and stamped the sentiment (from Tandem Extras) directly on it.
I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!
This is so cute. I think I need some copics!
Very cute!
Your card is so sweet, Elena! Thanks for the explanation of crafting it. Mama Elephant has such cute stamps!
CUTENESS GALORE :)
LOVE your card Elena!!!
So cute!
Love using the paste for texture, super cute card.
Cute card and great textured Rays!
Oh, super cute!
Such a darling cute card. I love the rays.
Absolutely adorable! My husband and I are both road, mountain and cyclocross race officials, so I know ever so many people who would love a bike-themed card! Adding this set to my wish list!
Thank you for the inspiration!
~carol
Such an adorable card – love these Mama elephant cute images and the info on how to create those fab rays:)
love this stemp set
Gorgeous colouring on this ever so sweet card. Such a fun design!
What a super cute card! Love it!!
Adorableness overload! LOVE this card!!! Fabulous texture, CUTE images and lovely coloring ♥
Love Mama Elephant. the bicycle is a fun stamp.
thanks for sharing.
SO adorable ! Loved the textured rays in the background !
Adorable critters on this beautifully colored card! Love the texture paste too.
Mama Elephant always has the cutest little critters!
IIIIIiiiiiIIII!!!! Super cute card!! Love love love! :-D
Cute!
Soooo cute!
Super cute card!
Awww this is so sweet, gorgeous coloring and I love the sun rays!
As allways such fun and cute cards wit them!
Gorgeous colouring technique. Fabulous yummy texture. Adorable card!
Such a delightful card, so cute, love it!!!
Cute card and stamps! Great coloring on those sweet animals too!
Such a cute card!! Love it!!
Great card. I just ordered the embossing paste and I cant wait to use it! Beautiful coloring job! These stamps are soooo cute! thank you for shareing with us
Cute critters and I like the textured background.
nice
This card is just adorable, so much talent at SSS!
Super Adorable card!!
What a sweet card. I love the little images and your coloring of them. Nice. And the use of the embossing paste adds a nice dimension to the card. Super design….great job! TFS
This card is so adorable!! I love all the texture on it.
Oh what a DARLING card!!! Love it:)
Great new stamps – love all the extras, the textured paste and glossy accents.
Great card! ;-)
Adorable! I love the paste rays and the white highlights!!
Happy you liked them and made this fantastic cute card with the set ♥
These stamps just make me smile and this card has great coloring. Great job!
Love those textured rays! What a fun card!
cute card!
This card is absolutely adorable! Love the bicycle and it’s riders!
This is really cute and I love the texture paste on the background.
Such a cute card!
Cute critters! Love the teeth lol!
That is one cute card.
Always such cute designs!