Today’s post is part of a blog hop to celebrate Mama Elephant’s 5th birthday! More on the hop below but for now let’s jump into the two cards I’ve made today using the A Beary Christmas and Puffy Holiday Greetings sets. I’ve linked all supplies at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used.
A BEARY CHRISTMAS
I so enjoyed colouring these cute bears! I want to shout out to the awesome Kelly Latevola for the great tutorial on colouring for glowing objects. I stamped several of the images from the A Beary Christmas set in Intense Black ink and coloured with Copics.
I kept in mind Kelly’s tips and coloured the bears, leaving the highlights closest to the candle uncoloured, and then right at the end flicked in a warm yellow to give the glow of the candle. Once all the colouring was complete, I die cut with the matching dies and then added white gel pen, Diamond Stickles and Crystal Glaze details to the images.
To create my scene, I freehand cut a snowy slope from White card and foam mounted it over a White panel on which I’d blended Winter and Dark Storm inks and then splattered liberally with white gouache paint.
I then added all the images with foam adhesive and coloured some light shadows on the snow, so they didn’t appear to be floating in the air.
I stamped one of the fun Puffy Holiday Greetings sentiments in red ink, trimmed out and then added with more foam adhesive. Finally, I mounted the finished panel on a Slate card base.
For my second card, I stamped a selection of the images from A Beary Christmas, coloured with Copics and die cut with their matching dies.
I wanted to create an indoor scene, and so I used the Merry Mantle set to stamp, colour and die cut a fireplace and accessories.
I accented the colouring with a white gel pen, Diamond Stickles and Crystal Glaze.
I do love Crystal Glaze at the moment; it gives a super glossy shine.
I stamped a sentiment from the Puffy Holiday Greetings set in red ink and trimmed out.
For the background, I blended Blush, Winter and Dark Storm inks and then splattered with Perfect Pearls before adding all the images with foam adhesive and mounting the panel on a Fog card base.
BLOG HOP
Welcome to the very special #celebrating5years with Mama Elephant Design Team blog hop! This is Day 2 of the 3-day Stampede! Make sure you check out Day 1 if you missed it yesterday!
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We have so many amazing guest designers joining 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!
Pamela Ho!!
SUPPLIES
You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or shop icon to get taken 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. You can read my affiliate and product disclosure here. I truly appreciate your support.
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Summary of the project which gives all the views of the card in one photo :D I’d love if you pinned and called by on Pinterest :D
Very cute scenes! I love the look of the candlelight on the bear…so awesome!
1. Oh my!!! Too sweet and cute!!!
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3. Following Mama Elephant on Twitter and just retweetted as @raggiodiluce82 (Arianna Barbara): https://twitter.com/raggiodiluce82/status/909764316366344192
4. Follow Mama Elephant on Instagram and reposted the Stampede post as raggiodiluc3: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZLuM_jl33z/
Wow.. amazing. You really got boatloads of dimension on those bears. So cute!
O my goodness, both of your cards are sooo cute!! You created wonderful scenes and everything is coloured just beautifully
So very sweet!!
I’m in love with these little bears. They are so cute. I like the different ways you colored them.