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

Floral Hearts - Pretty Pink Posh

Hello!  Pretty Pink Posh has a new release available for purchase tomorrow (January 8th) and I am happy to be able to share this sneak peek of a gorgeous new stamp set called 'Floral Hearts' that is great for Valentine's Day and well beyond.



Using my Misti I stamped the open heart images (there's another closed heart design in the set).  I used Distress Ink in Antique Linen and stamped very lightly since this is all you want with no-line watercolour painting.  I painted my images delicately using just three colours of Kuretake Zigs.  They are .... Light Green No.41, Light Pink No.26 and Pink No.25.



The painted panel was kept really simple and adhered to the card base.  Next, I took a pre-prepared skinny sentiment strip and stamped two of the sentiments with Versamark Ink and heat embossed in Gold.  I trimmed them to size and applied them with dimensional foam tape behind them.

I was going for super sweet and simple and decided no further embellishment was needed.

Thanks for coming along to read about this card and I hope you treat yourself to this mini stamp set.

Nicky x