Hi crafty friends! While I was waiting for the new Mama Elephant release to drop, I pulled out last year’s spring cuties to play with. First, I made a fun circle shaped card using their genius Combo Circle dies.

I started by stamping my images on Bristol smooth cardstock and watercolored them with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Pulling from my desire for sunshine and spring I used the Combo Circle dies to cut yellow and pink scallops, plus a white scene panel. I glued the scallops together, cut another scallop from white cardstock and scored it about an inch from one side. I glued this flap to the colored scallops to create my card base.

I blended tattered rose distress oxide ink in the center of the white circle and flicked pearl watercolor on the panel too. While that was drying I glued my turtle to the puddle and added foam squares to the back of my images.

When the panel was dry, I used my images as a guide where I could stamp my sentiment. Once that was stamped I adhered the images and stamped a few extra water splashes and drops. Finally, I added my scene panel to the card base with liquid glue. This helps so I have a moment to make sure it’s centered.

For finishing touches I just added glossy accents to the bunny’s nose and turtle’s shell. Then I added black glaze pen to their eyes to help them pop and shine too.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Combo Circle dies
Mama Elephant Flower Shower stamps and dies
Foam squares
Bearly Art liquid glue
Distress Oxide – tattered rose
Sakura Gelly Roll black glaze pen
LH Colors pearl watercolor

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Hello and welcome to another #tagtimesaturday! It’s still competition season in our house until the middle of March so I’ve got more fun tags to make and share with you! Today I pulled out the Mama Elephant Zodiac Monkeys and had a little fun.

I really wanted to use the sentiment in the set so I made sure to choose my monkeys but also stamp a few bananas for them to hold. Also, how can you resist these adorable coordinating balloons in all of the zodiac sets!?! So fun! I colored everything with copic markers. The monkeys are E30s with E50s faces and the bananas are Y10s. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and glued everything together with liquid glue.

I made my tag base out of the Combo Circle dies. The scallops are die cut from the same yellow cardstock but I ink blended one set to make it a touch darker. Then I cut the stitched circle from white cardstock but I ink blended the center of that with yellow and splattered it with gold watercolor from LH Colors too. It’s subtle but still pretty and I love the texture!

I adhered the circle pieces with liquid glue, placing black twine between the scallop layers and holding it in place with reverse tweezers until the glue dried. I did add a white stitched circle to the back of this since it’s a tag so I had somewhere to write a message.

Next, I stamped part of the sentiment in the set and heat embossed it on black cardstock. I used a banner die to cut it out and added foam to the back of all my images and banner. I removed the release paper and popped everything in place.

For finishing touches I went back to my images and added dot detail with the darkest marker – E34 – so there was subtle texture but it’s not distracting. Then I added black glaze pen to all of the eyes and set it aside to dry.

My daughter loves monkeys and yellow so I’m sure she’s going to giggle at this silly tag today.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Zodiac Monkey stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Combo Circle dies
Lawn Fawn Extra Sentiment Strip dies
Pink & Main embossing ink, powder and anti-static brush
Foam squares
LH Colors watercolor – gold
Bearly Art glue

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Welcome, welcome! I’m so glad you’re here! Today I have a really fun card to share featuring Mama Elephant goodies, new and old. I love how well these products play together over time. It makes it so fun to shop your stash and use things that you may have forgotten about.

I picked up a few sets from the most recent Mama Elephant release and had so much fun creating this little scene card using the Little Agenda House stamps and dies. I shopped through my stash of Little Agenda critters and decided on this sweet kitty purely because the recipient of this card is very much a cat person.

Once I had my images die cut, I created a circle using the Mama Elephant Combo Circle dies. These are so fun and innovative. I pulled from the colors of the house for the scallops and inked a little sunshiny shadow behind my images. The images are adhered with a combo of liquid glue and foam squares. Then I stamped and heat embossed sentiments from the Easy Sentiments set and cut them out using the coordinating die. I chose the one I wanted and added it to the circle with a foam strip.

For added interest in the background I cut the Grid Window background panel and adhered it to a white card base. Then I popped the scallop circle up with foam tape and added a few red clay hearts. Last, I added some glossy accents to the door knob, flowers and heart on the envelope.

I just adore this sweet card and had to much fun creating it.

Products used today:
Little Agenda House stamps and dies
Little Agenda Cats stamps and dies
Combo Circle dies
Grid Window die
Easy Sentiments stamps and dies
Foam strips and squares
Glossy accents
Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts clay embellishments
Bearly Art liquid glue

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Hey everyone! I’ve started making tags for Easter baskets this weekend and wanted to pop in to share one that I had too much fun creating!

For this tag, I cut all the pieces for the Chickie Favor Bag Accessory from cardstock and adhered the pieces together with liquid glue. Then I cut a second “body” piece from white cardstock and adhered it to the back.

Next, I pulled out the Little Chickie Agenda stamps and chose a few to decorate my big chickie with. I stamped them out and colored them with copic markers before using the coordinating dies to cut them out.

I adhered them with liquid glue and kept finishing touches simple with white gel pen highlights to all of the images.

Last, I added some baker’s twine to the back with washi tape so it could be removed later on. There is lots of space to write the recipient’s name plus a message or maybe stamp a sentiment too.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Favor Bag Accessory – Chickie
Mama Elephant Little Chickie Agenda stamps and dies
Bearly Art liquid glue

I get all of my Mama Elephant goodies from Doodlebugs. If you’d like to shop my referral link, click HERE.

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