Butterfly Reflections, Ink

 Hello crafty friends! Are you still scrambling to make your holiday cards? Today I'm sharing a simple design that can be created quickly! (and when I say "quickly" I mean an hour or two hahaha! You know what I'm talkin' about!) I am using this month's BRI Moodboard for my color inspiration. Be sure to enter your creations for a chance to win $20 to the BRI store!  I used a mix of Mama Elephant and Concord & 9th products. The honeycomb quilt top die  has so many possibilities and I had fun figuring out how to arrange my Little Agenda images on the background. You can even use this design for other occasions-- just swap out the images! The gold from the moodboard was slipped in with my heat embossed sentiment. I like how the bit of black contrasts against the white background and colorful hexagons. Supplies used: Mama Elephant Little Penguin Agenda ( coordinating dies) Mama Elephant Little Snowman Agenda ( coordinating dies ) Mama Elephant Everything Nic...

 Hello crafty friends! Today I am sharing a cute and simple holiday shaker card! This little card was pretty quick to put together and my favorite part of the card is the felt bow! Bows always make everything cuter! To make the shaker, I die cut several of the hexatag snowdrift frames and stacked them together. I prefer the cardstock stacking method for shaker frames because you can customize the depth of your shaker well this way. I ink blended a quick background on the solid hexagon piece and glued on the vellum trees. After gluing the shaker well onto the hexagon background, I used my powder tool to remove any stickiness and static. I added the shaker bits, acetate, and finally the top frame. Don't forget to stamp your sentiment on before assembling the shaker!  There is a snowflake on the reindeer's sign... if you squint you can see it😆! (In real life, you can definitely see it...) You can put all sorts of things in the signs. I think the Mama Elephant set Holiday Bitties...

 Hi crafty friends! Ahhh, it's that time of year again-- the smell of new crayons, the feel of a freshly sharpened Dixon Ticonderoga pencil gliding across wide ruled paper, and the morning rush to get out the door on time... it's back to school time!  I made this pop up box card to celebrate this glorious time of year using several Mama Elephant stamp sets and the Lawn Fawn box card pop up die. I colored the images with Copic markers and cut them out with their coordinating dies. I tried to turn the bear image into a panda because pandas are a favorite animal here in my home.  For one of the side panels, I thought it would be fun to cut out one panel from actual lined notebook paper for the cat with the pencil and then I wrote on it with a pencil.  To create the background, I cut out a box panel from gray cardstock and used a brick stencil with Distress Oxide ink. For the floors, I used a woodgrain stamp with Versamark ink on kraft cardstock. I heat embossed the sent...

  Hello everyone! Gladys here with fun encouragement card to share with you using Mama Elephant products . First, I die cut the bunny because I knew it would take up the most space on my card. This bunny is from the Favor Bag Accessory dies which is meant to be used with treat bags but it's also great for cards. I glued the elements together with liquid glue since some of the pieces were small and it also gave me time to move it in the right place. To add interest,  I added stardust stickles to the bow, glossy accents for the eyes, and a combination of kitsch flamingo and spun sugar for the blush on her cheeks. Next I stamped the bunnies from the Little Line Agenda with milk chocolate ink . I colored them with Copic markers and cut them out using their coordinating dies . I went with a soft pastel colors because I had Easter on my mind.  To create the scene, I used the Sweet Feline scalloped edges die cut from Bristol smooth cardstock. I used shaded lilac , salvag...