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!
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Amazing!! Love this – I’m inspired to get out my embossing paste and stencils again & just play for fun.
Such a sweet card! Love the stenciled background!
Cute card. Adorable little critters.
Adorable! Love the cute image and those embossing paste rays are great!
This card is so stinking cute and I love the rays. I may have to purchase these stamp sets. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Cute tandem and i love that you can mix and match the animals. Hugz
Super cute!! Those little animals are just adorable !
Wow Elena! This card is just fabulous! I love the embossed background and those sweet little critters are just too adorable!
Good tip to “expand” our use of stencils!
Sooooooooooooooo adorable!!! It puts me in a happier mood!!
What a fun card. Thanks for sharing! Love the tandem bike.
This is so darned CUTE!!!!
This is so adorable! I really love the sunburst you did with paste. Hugs, Robin
Too CUTE! I love it!! Have a great day, Rebecca
So cute with the rays
I just love the little critters from Mama Elephant. And it was so clever to use the stencil to create the textured rays. I’ve used the stencils to make colored ink rays, but the texture is so much better. Thanks for the ideas.
Karen
Love Mama E’s stamps! This card is just adorable…love the rays!
That tandem bike card is just too cute!!!
I am ALL about cute animals and I just recently got a Penny Black stamp set that features cute critters and I am so wanting to get Mama Elephant critter stamps I love them all !!
I love this card, especially the rays.
I love this card, especially the sun rays.
What a cute card!!
What a sweet card! Love the background! The stamps are so cute!
OMG! I LOVE THIS!
So cute! Have never tried partial die cutting. Maybe I should.
I have to say, this is the first time I have seen a card using this stamp and die set where the little animal’s tushies are actually touching the bicycle seats. It’s great that you were able to accomplish this, and I love all aspects of your design.
super cute love it !!!
So very cute! A great job on putting it all together.
How adorable! I love the animals on the bike! Thank you
SUPER AMAZING Design!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this SWEET Card!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)
Cute
Such an adorable card!!!
Excellent stamps used to make this CUTER than CUTE card – love it and think that it has been amazingly and wonderfully made!!
Adorable, you’ve inspired me for sure!
Carol B
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So cute on their little tandem bike!
That is such a cute card! I love the texture paste!
Love the texture paste rays on the card.
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Such an adorable card! Love how you used the paste for the background! :)
I like the background rows! They make colored animals pop!
So cute and fun. I just love the little critters from Mama Elephant.
Darling! I like the texture paste addition:) So sweet…
I love texture paste!
Such a sweet card! These little critters are just adorable! Really like the way you put this all together. Thanks for the tip about the suns rays! TFS
Great little fox.
What an Awesome card!!! Love the design and the colouring. The sun rays in the background is so clever. LOVE it!!
I love the bike…so cute!
What cute woodland creatures! They are really enjoying themselves on that bike! Very cute card.
I love it!!
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Just too cute!