Hello, friends! Thank you so much for stopping by today to help celebrate Mama Elephant 5 Year Anniversary (more about this and giveaway below)! I got two adorable stamp sets from Mama Elephant and I used both to create the card I’m sharing in today’s post.
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CARD DETAILS
I started working on this card by stamping Season’s Greetings onto white cardstock in black ink. I used my mini MISTI for stamping to make sure I got a perfect impression. Once my ink dried I used an anti static powder tool, shifted my paper just a fraction of an inch and stamped sentiment again using clear embossing ink.
I used Simon’s Antique Gold embossing powder (was going to use gold, but couldn’t find it on my messy desk – I really need to clean it!) and heat set the powder. Next, I stamped snowflakes around the sentiment in clear embossing ink and heat set in clear embossing powder. I stamped them in groups (as it was hard to see where I had already stamped some) of 3 or 4 to make sure I didn’t overlap any.
Next I pulled out my Tumbled Glass and Peacock Feathers distress inks and blended them coming in from the edges of my panel. I went a little heavier on the edges and used a much lighter hand as I was getting closer to the center and the sentiment.
I added flicks of water and used a paper towel to lift some of the ink up. Once I was happy with how my background looked I trimmed it a tiny bit (I didn’t want the harsh ink blended edges to show) and adhered onto an A2 top folding card base. Lastly, I added several drops of “water” using Tonic Nuvo Drops in Morning Dew.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Mama Elephant Clear Stamps Season’s Wishes Shop at: SSS | ME |
 Mama Elephant Clear Stamps Holly’s Snowflakes Shop at: SSS | ME |
 Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Antique Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS |
 Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Hero Arts Clear Embossing Powder PW104 Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Tumbled Glass Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Ranger Mini Round Foam Refils Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Peacock Feathers Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Tonic Morning Dew Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Hero Arts Letterpress Paper Cream Hues Ps701 Shop at: SSS |
HOP ALONG – GET INSPIRED!
Welcome to the very special #celebrating5years with Mama Elephant Design Team blog hop! This is Day 3 of the 3-day Stampede! Make sure you check out Day 1 and Day 2 if you missed them!
Our newest release is now live and available for purchase in the store!
Check out this year’s promo!
From 9/15-9/17
Take 10% off the entire store.
In stock items only. No rain checks.
No coupon code needed. All prices as marked.
From 9/15-9/30
Spend min $100* – get a free ‘Occasional Labels’ 4×6 stamp set.
Spend min $150* – get a free ‘Occasional Labels’ 4×6 stamp set and ‘Hello Friend Script’ creative cut die.
*Subtotal minimum amount must be met before any shipping fees/tax/customs.
Free item(s) valid only a single order/transaction.
Limit one of each free offer per order.
Orders cannot be combined. New orders only.
Limit one free offer per customer/order.
We reserve the right to cancel/modify orders.
Free offer valid 9/15-9/30 or while supplies last!
We have so many amazing guest designers joining for for this Stampede. We are blessed with some amazing friends in the industry, so we are spreading the stampede into 3 days. 3 days of awesomeness!
Here are today’s designers, make sure you ‘stampede’ your way through all of them and check out what they created with the newest products!
Mama Elephant
Yana Smakula – you are here!
Vera Rhuhay
Nichol Spohr
Cathryn Zielske
GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate this mega anniversary release, up for grabs are three $25 gift certificate to the ME store! That’s a total of 9 winners for the 3-day Stampede! Winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the Stampede. Winners will be announced on the last day of Stamp Highlights. You have up to 4 chances to qualify to win!
» 1. Leave a comment on this blog post «
» 2. Like/share us on Facebook: facebook.com/mamaelephant «
» 3. Follow/tweet us on Twitter: twitter.com/heymamaelephant «
» 4. Follow/tweet us on Instagram: instagram.com/mamaelephant «
Each action qualifies for one entry, max 4 entries per stampeder please!
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So pretty! I love Christmas card.
Very pretty card Yana!
This is such an elegant card! Love how the sentiment is offset just a bit and stamped in gold. Beautiful and simple!
Beautiful card!
Beautiful card, love that background.
The black offset layer gives the gold sentiment so much dimension. I really like the way the blending fades out around the sentiment, too.
Fantastic dimension with the gold on black! Love the background and the “water” drops as well!
What a simple yet dramatic card. Love your technique on the sentiment and the droplets. Just beautiful.
So lovely. Gets me excited for the Holidays
Such a lovely card! I love how you stamped the sentiment in black and then shifted and gold embossed. That is brilliant!
Simple and elegant card! Love the shadow effect on the sentiment, thank you for sharing the technique 🙂
This is a beautiful card!
Simply elegant. That scripty sentiment makes mass producing easy.
Beautiful card! Thank you for sharing how you created it as well!
Really pretty! I love this Season’s Greetings stamp!
Love the holiday card that you made! Thanks for the inspiration!
i looove this card!! 🙂
Love the snowflakes border you’ve created around the card…it’s so pretty.
What a gorgeous card! I like the way you’ve shadowed the sentiment and the background is beautiful.
I like ME and have shared on Facebook.
I follow ME on Instagram and have shared!
This is very pretty. Love the big sentiment.
This is so beautiful! Love the colours
So elegant. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely beautiful and so elegant !!!
I like your black shadow on the sentiment.
Lovely card! Who wouldn’t love getting that card at Christmas. Thanks!
I love your card – especially the way the soft blues fade away around the sentiment. Really sets it off. Beautiful!
1. Wow! Awesome card!!!
2. Liked Mama Elephant FB page and shared as Arianna Barbara https://www.facebook.com/arianna.barbara.1/posts/1503116319769312?pnref=story
3. Following Mama Elephant on Twitter and just retweetted as @raggiodiluce82 (Arianna Barbara): https://twitter.com/raggiodiluce82/status/909764516677931008
4. Follow Mama Elephant on Instagram and reposted the Stampede post as raggiodiluc3: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZLuTVklqBr/
Thanks for the tip on offsetting the sentiment! I really like the black behind the gold! Will have to remember that one! Simple yet beautiful card. Thanks, Yana!
What a beautiful card! I love the snowflake stamps 🙂
I love love love what you did. I suspect I will be using this technique very soon!
Thank you for sharing,
Michelle.
Very pretty card!!
Simply Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing!!
Such a pretty, classy card! Love the background you created.
Simple but beautiful.
Love your elegant sentiment holiday card! Thanks for the inspiration.
I love this gorgeous script and you have made such a lovely card to showcase it!
Beautiful card. I love big sentiments and the large scripty letters are just so pretty.
What a gorgeous card!! So simple and yet so elegant. The font of the sentiment is beautiful! I love the gold just offset slightly from the black. And the background highlights the sentiment so nicely.
Oh that’s gorgeous, beautiful card.
What a gorgeous card! I love how you inked and embossed the sentiment—such a cool technique! And the snowflakes make such a beautiful frame for the greeting!!!
Love the large sentiment. Neat technique using black ink then gold embossing. The snow flakes make a perfect border.
So pretty! Love the snowflakes and the gold embossing. LOVELY!
Liked Mama Elephant FB page and shared as hmnelson15
The emboss resist/soft inking is just so lovely and I really like the slightly offset sentiment!
I like ME on FB