Summer Splash - Mama Elephant

Hey there!  I recently managed to carve out some free time to create this birthday card for someone special to me using Summer Splash by Mama Elephant.  You can find the coordinating dies here and the background is a great one, it's the Hillside Cover - Creative Cuts also by Mama Elephant which is one of the most useful dies in my stash.



To start the card off I grabbed a panel of white cardstock and used the Hillside Cover die to die cut it.  I masked off the frame using washi tape and then using another panel of scrap cardstock I created a shape I could take into each opening of the die cut thus masking off the rest of the openings and ink blended one by one.  I used Tumbled Glass and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxides for this.  The mask was removed.

 

I stamped the sentiment from the Wishing You stamp set by shaping it onto my stamping block to match the curve of the Hillside Cover Die.

My cute little elephants from Summer Splash were stamped with Ink On 3 Fade Out Ink onto Bristol Smooth cardstock.   This ink is designed specially for the no-line watercolour painting affect which is what I've done here.   I used Kuretake Zigs to paint in Carmine Red, Lemon Yellow, Light Blue, Light Gray and Gray Brown.



All images were die cut, backed with foam tape and tucked into the scene.

I took a white gel pen and highlighted one or two spots and embellished with these pretty pink hearts by Trinity Stamps for the perfect girly finish.

The whole panel was adhered to a lovely sturdy 110lb white cardstock panel and another card is complete!

I imagine this is my last summery card for many months so I made sure to enjoy the project.

See you soon I hope!

Nicky x