Ready For Christmas

Today I'm using another one of my favorite stamp sets from Mama Elephant 2017 October release. I wanted to create soft colors with these stamps. I picked winter ink from Mama Elephant and wild rose ink from Lawn Fawn to stamp stripes on the front panels. For inner panel, I used Copic markers to color the images and applied very light shades of distress ink to the background. In the end, I put very generous amount of Stampendous shaved ice as shaker element inside the window.

I'm submitting this card to the following challenges.

Word Art Wednesday #306-307 - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

 

Supplies used in this card:

• Mama Elephant A Beary Christmas stamp set (ME)
• Mama Elephant All Prettied Up dies (ME)
• Mama Elephant Basic Borders stamp set (ME)
• Mama Elephant Merry Greetings stamp set (ME)
• Lawn Fawn mini snowflakes dies (LF)

Holiday Card With Color Pencil

I've been wanting to try color pencil for a long time and I finally did it. The skill is different from water color or Copic coloring and need lots of patience. I defintely need some more practices. But it was really fun. After finishing coloring, I used white gel pen to add fur texture on the hat and applied white ink + snow stencil to the background. Hopefully it's not looking too boring.

I'm submitting this card to the following challenges.

Word Art Wednesday #304-305 - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #263 - Holiday

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Thinking Of You
Simon Says Stamp Happy World Card Making Day Challenge

 

Supplies used in this card:

• Wplus9 Holiday Hugs stamp set (WP9)
• Simon Says Stamp Falling snow stencil (SSS)

Whale Birthday Card

This card was inspired by MFT sketch challenge. For the background, I hand drew the waves with glue pen and heat embossed them white. Then I used ink smooshing technique to apply various blue disktress ink colors. For the whale, I colored it with distress markers on a separate piece of watercolor paper and fussy cut it out. For finishing details, I covered the entire wave area with iridescent sequin. Unfortunately it didn't show well on the picture.

 

I'm submitting this card to the following challenges.

Word Art Wednesday #302-303 - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #262 - Make Your Mark
Addicted to CAS Challenge #121 - Favorite Stamp

MFT World Card Making Day Challenge 4: Make & Mail
Simon Says Stamp Happy World Card Making Day Challenge

MFT Sketch Challenge #353

 

Supplies used in this card:

• MFT Soak up the fun stamp set (MFT)
• MFT inside and out stitched circle die-namics (MFT)

Yeti New Year

Another card with this cute yeti from Mama Elephant!

Lots of heat embossing in this card and very little Copic coloring. Overall a very easy card to make, although I did spend quite a bit of time experimenting a new color combination for Xmas night sky. Out of all the ones that I have explored, I liked this color combination the most. It doesn't look like a night sky as I wanted in the first place, but I still love it. In this combination, I applied 5 distress ink colors: chipped sapphire, seedless preserve, anitique linen, shabby shutters, peeled paint.

 

I'm submitting this card to the following challenges.

Word Art Wednesday #302-303 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Happy World Card Making Day Challenge

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #262 - Make Your Mark

Supplies used in this card:

• Mama Elephant Me and my yeti stamp set (ME)
• Mama Elephant Sentiments from a yeti stamp set (ME)
• Mama Elephant City sidewalks stamp set (ME)
• Mama Elephant Merry mantle stamp set (ME) - the cup
• Lawn Fawn upon a star stamp set (LF)

Yeti For Christmas

I've never made a Xmas card in Sept/Oct. Only because I saw this super cute yeti from Mama Elephant and ordered on the day they were released!

I colored everything with Copic markers. For the mountains on the back, I ink blended with distress ink ice spruce. For the mountains in the front, I ink blend with distress ink mermaid lagoon first then ice spruce to make it less bright. For both mountains, I splattered some water, dabbed them off with paper towel, then again splattered some white acrylic paint. I usually only do either water or paint. The effect of combining two really amazed me. For caps and hills, I also lightly applied distress ink ice spruce to add some shades.

 

 

I'm submitting this card to the following challenges.

Word Art Wednesday #302-303 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #261 - Anything Goes

Supplies used in this card:

• Mama Elephant Me and my yeti stamp set (ME)
• Mama Elephant Sentiments from a yeti stamp set (ME)
• Lawn Fawn scalloped box card pop-up die (LF)
• Lawn Fawn stitched mountain borders (LF)
• Lawn Fawn stitched hillside borders (LF)