Mama Elephant | Watercolor Poinsettias. Blog Hop + Giveaway

Mama Elephant | Watercolor Poinsettias

Hello and thank you for stopping by today to help celebrate Mama Elephant 4 Years Stampede (more about this below). I fell in love with their new Floral Series – Poinsettia stamp set and created a simple Christmas card to share in this post today.

Mama Elephant | Watercolor Poinsettias

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I started by stamping a sentiment first and I went with “Fa La La La” from the O’ Tiny Tree set and “Wishing You All The Happiness Your Holiday Can Hold” from the Merry Christmas Wishes set. The latter was a one line sentiment so I cut it apart to create a two line one, you can also mask a part of the sentiment if you don’t want to cut it.

Mama Elephant | Watercolor Poinsettias

I stamped 3 poinsettia flowers onto a sheet of Arches Cold Press watercolor paper using Versafine Onyx Black ink and MISTI (this watercolor paper is textured, so I like using my MISTI to be able to double and even triple stamp images).

I used Daniel Smith Watercolors and went with traditional red and green pigments to watercolor my images. I only have a sampler sheet from Daniel Smith (you can catch a glimpse at it at the very first photo), but I am loving it for simple coloring like this one. And there’s quite a lot of pigment in each one of those dots, so it does go a long way.

Mama Elephant | Watercolor Poinsettias

I added white gel pen accents to my images to create highlights, wrapped a bit of natural twine and adhered several small and medium clear drops from Pretty Pink Posh.

Mama Elephant | Watercolor Poinsettias

MAMA ELEPHANT STAMPEDE

Welcome to the very special #celebrating4years with Mama Elephant Design Team blog hop!

Our newest release is now live and available for purchase in the store!

THIS YEAR’S PROMO

From 10/15-10/17
Take 10% off the entire store | In stock items only. No rain checks | No coupon code needed. All prices as marked.
From 10/15-10/31
Spend min $100* – get a free ‘Just a Note’ 4×6 stamp set | Spend min $150* – get a free ‘Just a Note’ 4×6 stamp set and ‘Zipper’ creative cut die.

Subtotal minimum amount must be met before any shipping fees/tax/customs | Free item(s) will be automatically added to your cart | Free item(s) valid only a single order. Orders cannot be combined | Limit one free offer per customer/order | Free offer valid 10/15-10/31 or while supplies last!

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!

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Each action qualifies for one entry, max 4 entries per stampeder please!

BLOG HOP

We have so many amazing guest designers joining for for this Stampede. It’s a long list so we’re breaking it up into 3 days so everyone gets some love. 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.

Jennifer McGuire
Melania Deasy
Lisa Spangler
Anna Kossakovskaya
Yana Smakula – you are here
Eunji Jung

Remember to come back tomorrow for MORE!

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Mama Elephant Floral Series – Poinsettia Stamp Set
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Mama Elephant Creative Cuts Steel Die Floral Series Poinsettia
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Mama Elephant Clear Stamp and Die Floral Series Poinsettia Set
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Mama Elephant Floral Series – Poinsettia Stamp Set
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Comments181

  1. Your Christmas flowers are so pretty. My mom always gets one of those plants from us and then we plant it outside in the spring. This year I think some squirrels dug it up because I can’t find it anywhere. They are always digging up anything I plant it seems. Maybe I need to plant more paper flowers like on your card, then they can’t dig them up. I love how pretty your flowers look and I love the sentiment too. I bought the sentiments from ME, the retro ones. They were calling my name.

  2. What a beautiful elegant card! The floral stamps are beautiful, and your coloring is perfection – thank you for sharing!

  3. What an elegant card Yana. Love your watercolouring. A very clean and classy style. Never disappointed in an offering from you. ❤️️

  4. Love those poinsettias…perfectly designed… and your card is beautiful and perfectly colored.

  5. Beautiful watercoloring Yana! I love your card! Thanks for the inspiration and for the opportunity to win!

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