Christmas in August #2 | Mama Elephant

Hello everyone! One more Christmas card to show you in August - again I used many different products from Mama Elephant. I love when I am able to combine different sets.

I wanted to use the 'inside pop fence' die for my card front - using only the fence. So I created the background by blending some tumbled glass distress oxide ink on a piece of white cardstock which I had diecut before with the 'hillside cover' die.

Then I stamped the main images from 'a cookie Christmas' and chose several other sets to go along with the scene. The cute santa is from 'little santa agenda', the bird and some of the candy canes from 'reindeer game' I also used candy canes from 'wooly winter'.

I colored them all in with Copic markers. For the fence I used ground espresso distress oxide ink.

Too add more detail I used the Nuvo glitter accents in fresh snowfall all over the card. Last but not least I added two tiny glue dots with the Mono multi media adhesive and let them dry. Now you can close and open the fence :)

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

xo

Lisa

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Christmas in August | Mama Elephant

Hi there! Since I missed Christmas in July - it's Christmas in August ;-) I want to make sure that I use some of my fav Christmas stamps before the new (and irresistible for sure) releases will be out.

So I chose several different Mama Elephant stamp sets and started to create two cards at once.

First I made two very simple background with Distress Oxide inks. The blue one is just a "regular" blended background, for the orangy one I used a strip of paper for the blending so that the wall gets a subtle pattern. Last but not least I used the frame die from 'dotted details' to add more detail.

I stamped all the images from 'little santa agenda', 'little reindeer agenda', 'a beary christmas' and 'merry mantle' with Memento tuxedo black and colored them in with Copics. Then I diecut all the cute images and created the layout. When I was satisfied I adhered everything to the backgrounds.

The sentiments are from 'christmas scene' and 'mini messages' and are stamped with a grey ink.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have an awesome day!

xo

Lisa

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Spotted birthday | MFT

Howdy! As promised I made a second card using the Toy Story squad from 2 weeks ago since I stamped and colored the images from 'saddle up and celebrate', 'best in the west' and 'delightful dinosaurs' two times.

I created the background with the new Sizzix 3D lumber embossing folder (it is AMAZING) and blended some distress oxide inks. I also distressed the edges of the paper.

I pimped the white cardbase with black soot distress oxide ink and the MFT stencil 'cow print'. I adhered the background piece askew on top of it.

For the images I used liquid glue except for Woody and Rex whom I adhered with foam dots. 

Before that I had stamped the awesome sentiment from saddle up and celebrate directly on the background piece.

I hope you like the card and thank you for stopping by!

xo

Lisa

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