Mama Elephant February Stampede

Welcome to the Mama Elephant February Design Team blog hop! The February release is now live and available for purchase in the Mama Elephant store.

To celebrate the new release, Mama Elephant is giving away 3 gift certificates worth $20.00 each to 3 lucky people! Winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the Stampede. Winners will be announced on the blog on Monday, February 18th.

Here's how to qualify to win (leave a separate comment for each):

1. Leave a comment on this blog post
2. Like/share Mama Elephant on Facebook
3. Follow/tweet about Mama Elephant on Twitter

For my Mama Elephant February Stampede project, I created a layout. My husband and I pretty much text in pictures. The ME Say What stamp set is perfect for scrapbooking dialogue and conversations. I used a bevy of sentiments from the set and created a grid by sewing clear pockets to the layout.

Materials used: Mama Elephant Say What stamp set, Zing! Gold Embossing Powder, gold star bradlets and brads, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Spellbinders Ribbon Banner Dies, Singer 160 Sewing Machine

Here's a closer look at the details:

I stamped the "Say What" sentiment and the arrow on a punched tab. The arrow is perfect here because when you flip the pocket, there's some hidden journaling appropriately hiding behind "Say What?"

I like keeping more personal thoughts and messages tucked away and keeping the layout clean with more of a focus on the photos and letting them speak for themselves.

For the "Heeeeyyyyy" banner trio, I clipped the super cute stamp, "Heeeeyyyyy Sexy Lady" and shaped it to the curves of the ribbon banners to create my layout title. The best thing is that I can put the stamp together just as easily when I want to use the entire sentiment. A perfect stamp set for all of your scrapbooking and card-making needs. Happy stamping!

Your next jump is the talented Alice Wertz!

• Kryssi Ng -- Mama Elephant
• Jenn Biederman
• Pearl Lui (me)
• Alice Wertz
• Laura Bassen (guest designer)
• Savannah O'Gwynn
• Lea Lawson
• Mariana Grigsby
• Geralyn Sy
• JJ Bolton
• Cheiron Brandon

Thanks for stopping by!
- KRAFTY pearl