Merry Christmas | Mama Elephant

Hello crafty friends! I'm sorry for not posting a card last Saturday. Time flies and I'm reorganizing parts of my crafting space too. However here I am showing you another Mama Elephant Christmas card! I'm also participating in the monthly Mama Elephant challenge with this design :)

For the background I used four different distress ink pads cracked pistachio, peacock feathers, broken china and mermaid lagoon and blended them together. I die cut the whole piece with the new 'All prettied up' set from Mama Elephant. Then I also die cut some stars and adhered gold glitter paper to the back of the background paper. I used the 'All prettied up' die with white card stock and die cut snowy hills from the result. After adhering them to the background I could go on with the cute images.

I used the Mama Elephant stamp sets 'Christmas Spirit' and 'Reindeer Games', stamped the images with Memento tuxedo black ink, colored them in with Copics and (die) cut them.

For connecting the sledge with the reindeers I used a golden thread. The presents and noses are covered with Wink of Stella clear glitter. Then I adhered them with foam tape to the card and stamped the little message from the 'Mini Messages' stamp set.

Last but not least I adhered the whole scene to a golden cardbase and my card is all finished.

I created another version of this design using snowflakes instead of stars. The only difference (beside the snowflakes) is that I adhered the background paper with foam tape to white cardstock before I clued that to the golden cardbase.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I'll see you soon.

xo

Lisa

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Copics I used: BG0000, BG15, BG49, E00, E21, E31, E34, E35, E37, E59, R20, R27, W5, V04, V06, V09

Happy Christmas | Mama Elephant

Hello there! For my birthday I got the Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 Color Set and I am soooo excited about it.

So many people around the world work with these colors and now I can share their enthusiasm. The quality and intensity of the colors are amazing!!! For the background of this card I used the numbers 37 and 50 and mixed them with a lot of water and look how bright they still are! So pretty.

Because the background looked so dreamy I decided to use the cloud border from the 'landscape trio' die set from Mama Elephant along with some reindeers. After coloring the images with Copic markers I die cut everything and adhered it to the background paper. For the sentiment I used the 'Christmas Spirit' and 'Three Amigos' stamp sets.

Last but not least I added glitter to the accessories and noses and clued the watercolor paper to a craft cardbase. A simple and joyful Christmas card :)  

Thank you so much for stopping by and I'll see you soon.
xo
Lisa

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Copic Markers I used: BG0000, BG15, E00, E12, E31, E34, E35, E37, E59, R20, R27, V04, V06, W1, W3, W5, Y17

Rudolph the LED nosed reindeer | Mama Elephant

Hello there! I'm very excited about the card that I show you today. When I first saw the reindeer stamps I immediately came up with the idea to give Rudolph's nose a red light. No sooner said than done! I created a card which will be on if you press Rudolph :)

 

I started with the special effect because this was the trickier step. I took a CR2032 battery and a red LED and creased both of its wires. Now each of them were L-shaped and I put the battery in between (be careful: the longer wire belongs to the bottom (plus) and the shorter to the top (minus) of the battery; if you do it the other way round the LED will be destroyed). I creased the top wire so that it does not automatically touch the battery. You have to press the wire down and because the wire is very strong it will always go back to its L-shape and the light will go out after pressing.

                       

After that I stamped, colored and die cut the adorable sitting reindeer from the Mama Elephant 'Reindeer games' stamp set. I punched a whole where its nose had been and thread the wires of the LED through it. Then I adhered the battery with a very strong double sided tape to the wire (only the plus side). The top wire I adhered to the back of the reindeer. In order to hide the battery I created a littly snowy hill with the LF 'Ready, Set, Snow Shaker add on' die set. I adhered the piece of cardstock to the back of the reindeer too but I cut a little slit so that the wire can still touch the battery if you press.

Here I have two pictures. It's really not that difficult as it probably sounds due to my explanation ;)

                       

Ok, the rest was easy. I only added tumbled glass distress ink to a white cardstock and adhered the whole Rudolph-sitting-in-the-snow-with a huge LED instead of his nose- piece with doubled foam tape to the background. I stamped the sentiment from the 'Cozy Christmas' stamp set from Mama Elephant and added snow with a snow pen and a light blue doodlebug twine. Last but not least I adhered the whole piece to a light blue cardbase.

                             

I hope, that the description was not too confusing but actually it is more difficult to explain than to make :) If you have any questions, go ahead and leave a comment.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a nice weekend and I'll see you soon.
xo
Lisa

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Copic markers: E00, E21, E35, E37, E59, R20, R27, R46, W1, W3