can't wait to hug you! {mama elephant}

It's the last day of this month's Mama Elephant stamp highlights. I hope you've enjoyed it so far! Today, we're showing off Blogging Buddies.

I've made some wonderful friends online, and have been lucky enough to meet some of them. This set is perfect for sending cards to those faraway friends.

It also has a great mix of sentiments that can be used without the computer/laptop images.

I used the adorable hugging bears from Bear Hugs, and paired them with 2 sentiments from Blogging Buddies.

This one's dedicated to the blogging buddies I got to spend a weekend with this past month:

It's not the best picture, but it makes me smile! Can you name all the bloggers in this photo? They are a kind and generous and funny bunch!

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the ME blog this morning - click!

♥.

christmas scene {mama elephant}

Welcome back to another day of Mama Elephant inspiration! Today, we're showing off the new set, Christmas Scene. It is the companion set to Christmas Spirit, which we highlighted yesterday.



This is the embodiment of jingle all the way. My little elf has a ways to go to get home.  I cut a path for her using the arched die from the Borderline Trio die set.  Then, I cut wavy snowbanks using the Landscape Trio die set.

Once the scene was set, I blended ink to create a night sky and added snow using a stencil and some embossing paste.  The heat-embossed sentiment becomes part of the snowy scene.

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the ME blog this morning - click!

♥.

happy haunting! {lawn fawn and chameleon pens}

Lawn Fawn and Chameleon Pens are teaming up this week with fun Halloween projects.

I used the pastel pack of Chameleon pens to color the bear from Party Animal. He's Halloween-ready, with accessories from Booyah!

This was my first time using Chameleon pens, and it was fun to experiment with different markers! I like my images to be lightly colored, and look shaded. It took awhile to understand that instead of coloring first and adding the shading second (like with Copics) I had to keep coloring lightly and adding the shading a little bit at a time at the end. (I had to stop coloring every 20 seconds or so to re-click the pen into the chamber to remove saturation.) If you are confused, watch these videos! I found them very helpful to start, and then I had to figure out what worked for me.

I hope you like it!

♥. 

christmas spirit {mama elephant}

Hi there!

It's Mama Elephant stamp highlight week, and today the design team is showing off the new set Christmas Spirit.

My scene is pretty simplistic and easy to reproduce for holiday cards. I used the new snow capped mountains die to provide a backdrop for the elf, and the only greeting is the new Merry die-cut.