Believe | Mama Elephant

Hello everyone! Yesterday the confirmation of my niece took place. The one-layer card that I show you today was made especially for this occasion.

I used a white piece of cardstock, diecutted with the third largest die from 'Basic rectangles' (Mama Elephant) for my background paper. The Misti stamping tool helped me to position everything correctly. I started with stamping the sentiment from 'His love' and the cute bunny from 'Wish upon a star'. Then I masked off the bunny (I had just diecut the bunny from a piece of masking paper) and stamped the beautiful, detailed cross again from His love.

I also created a mask for the cross and blended a very soft pale blue color around the cross and bunny. Then I colored in the image with Prismacolor pencils and and added some dots to the pale blue backround.

Last but not least I chose a blue metallic cardstock and matted the background on a white sparkle cardstock. 

I really love how the softness turned out on this card and my niece really liked it :)

Here is a short photostory about the process:

Thank you so much and have a beautiful day!

xo

Lisa

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Sorry for my reaction |MFT Stamps

Hello everyone! The 'cute chemists' set from MFT stamps is so adorable, I love the different sentiments included in the set. Since I am not so used to coloring with colored pencils I challenged myself to use Prismacolors on today's card.

First I created the fun background by sprinkling some Nuvo shimmer powders on watercolor cardstock and adding water to it. I love to let it air dry because I think it looks more natural this way. Isn't it awesome how the powder reacts with the water? Perfect for this card :-)

I used the second largest of the 'single stitch line tag-corner rectangle frames' to diecut the paper. I also diecut 4 white frames with the die which I stacked together.

With two stamps included in the cute chemists set I created the background on a white cardbasis. I used a grey ink for it and colored in some of the hearts with Prismacolor colored pencils.

I stamped the sweet chemist and colored it with the same medium. After diecutting him I could assemble the card. I adhered all the pieces onto the white cardbase and added the sentiment on a strip of white cardstock which I adhered with foam tape.

To wrap things up I created another short photo story you can watch here:

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day!

xo

Lisa

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Christmas Card #23 | Mama Elephant

Hello everyone! I have another very quick Christmas card to share with you. Again I created it with lots of different Mama Elephant products. Since I have been a fan for so long I have a great ME stash to mix and match :)

First I diecut 5 frames with the older 'polaroid fun' die. On the inside squares I stamped different Christmas images/critters.

I used the penguin from 'cool penguins', the Santa from 'Santa's sleigh', an elf from 'Christmas spirit', a sheep from 'wooly winter' and last but not least the cute rabbit from 'Pix's happy holiday'. I stamped them all with archival jet black ink. Then I colored them (and also some small images from 'holiday bitties' with my prismacolor pencils. Since I am not used to pencil coloring it took some time but except for the backgrounds I am satisfied with the result.

For the background I chose the cracked pistachio distress oxide color and the 'peppermint' stencil from Tim Holtz. I blended the color and added some color splatters.

I stamped some small Christmas greetings onto the little polaroid frames from holiday bitties and also 'little santa agenda'.

Last but not least I adhered everything to the background and used foam tape to glue it to a green cardbase.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day!

xo

Lisa

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A magical birthday | Clearly Besotted

Hello everyone! I am stopping quickly by to show you this birthday card for my boyfriend's niece. It was her 6th birthday and who doesn't love Arielle? So I thought that the cute mermaid stamp from "Fairy Tale Mermaid" by Clearly Besotted is just perfect for this occasion.

I only used images from this small stamp set and went a bit out of my comfort zone by using watercolors.

First I stamped the images with antique linen distress ink and then I colored them in with Mijello Mission Gold watercolors.

For the water I used a light blue Zig clean color real brush pen.

After the first wash I added some details with Prismacolor pencils. Last but not least I added the sentiment with peacock Lawn Fawn dye ink and added some Jewel Nuvo drops.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

xo

Lisa

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