Mama Elephant Highlight: Flashy Letters

TGIF! Welcome to the last day of the Mama Elephant design team highlights of the April release. The great minds at ME have, perhaps, saved the very best for last. (Ok, not really because all of the sets are majorly awesome, but this set I'm about to show you one of my favorites and must-haves!)

I created a clean and simple card for m'dear husband. Not to get all sappy, but he is my sunshine and so inspired by golden hues, I stamped a very simple sentiment ombre style. I continued a bit of the ombre design in the stamped hearts as well as punched watercolored hearts just to add a bit of dimension.

Materials used: Mama Elephant Flashy Letters and Central Park (heart); Memento Inks, ColorBox Cat's Eye Queue Inks, heart punch

Here's a closer look at the ombre stamp job:

Now, get on over to the Mama Elephant blog and see what the rest of the design team created with this amazingly versatile set that literally lets you spell and number anything! A must-have for scrapbookers and card makers alike!

Thanks for stopping by!

- KRAFTY pearl

Mama Elephant Highlight: Central Park

Hello again! We continue the week of Mama Elephant April release highlights. We're going to take a closer look at the Central Park set today.

The skyline image is absolutely perfect to represent any great city and I just had to use it for a clean and simple card that just simply tells someone "I heart you" from this great city. It's a bit hard to photograph, but each tiny window has also been filled with sparkly glitter along with the heart to give it that extra shiny punch.

Materials used: Mama Elephant Central Park and Hello; Ranger Stickles

Here's a closer look at the sparkly glitter from the Stickles coloring:

Be sure to stop on by the Mama Elephant blog to see what the rest of the design team created with this wonderfully elegant yet urban set:

Thanks for stopping by!
- KRAFTY pearl

Mama Elephant Highlight: Bling

Welcome to day two of four days of Mama Elephant April release highlights! You saw my layout using Bling, here. Today, I'm sharing a card. The sentiments and font styles are a perfect combination to tell someone they shine or that your world is brighter because of them.

I created a soft rainbow ribbon over a scalloped sky backdrop by using white embossing powder to create a resist from the watercolor bands.

Materials used: Mama Elephant Bling; watercolor, acrylic hearts from Etsy

Here's a closer look at the watercolor rainbow created to feel like sunset on a Caribbean island.

Be sure to see what the rest of the design team created with Bling on the Mama Elephant blog.

Thanks for stopping by!
- KRAFTY pearl

Mama Elephant Highlight: Tree Friends

Hello! Welcome to the first of four days of Mama Elephant April release highlights. We're sharing Tree Friends today. A perfect spring set with a full cherry blossom tree, furry friends silhouette, and just the perfect sentiments to say hello.

I used a combination of Copics and Stickles to color in the tree. I used office ledger cardstock to matte the card and stamped the sentiment on a small shipping tag to playfully contrast with the outdoorsy feel of the images.

Materials used: Mama Elephant Tree Friends; Copics, Ranger Stickles

Here's a closer look at the coloring and the sparkle:

Check out the Mama Elephant blog and see what the rest of the design team created with this lovely set.

Thanks for stopping by!
- KRAFTY pearl

Mama Elephant April Stampede

Welcome to the Mama Elephant April Design Team blog hop! Our April release is now live and available for purchase in the store: www.mamaelephant.com.

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 Mama Elephant blog on Friday, April 19th. Here's how to qualify to win (leave a separate comment for each):

1. Leave a comment on this blog post
2. Become a follower of our blog
3. Like/share us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/mamaelephant
4. Follow/tweet about us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/heymamaelephant

Here's my layout using Bling! I adore this set and it totally reminds me of Rihanna's "shine bright like a diamond" lyrics. The sentiments are perfect for a stacked title block - Shine bright, Bling, Sparkle and Shine, Bling, Sparkle and Shine!

Materials used: Mama Elephant Bling; SEI papers, Shipping Tag

Your next jump is the talented JJ Bolton! If you're lost, here's the order of the Stampede and you can always start from the beginning on the Mama Elephant blog. Happy stampeding!

• Kryssi Ng / Mama Elephant http://www.mamaelephantblog.com/
• Lisa Spangler (guest designer!) http://sideoatsandscribbles.wumple.com/
• Mariana Grigsby http://marianagrigsby.wordpress.com/
• Lea Lawson http://leascupcakesandsunshine.blogspot.com/
• Alice Wertz http://aliceslittlewonderland.blogspot.com/
• Elena Roussakis (guest designer!) http://justmeprints.blogspot.ca/
• Geralyn Sy http://inacreativebubble.blogspot.com/
• Savannah O'Gwynn http://savannahland2.blogspot.com/
• Cheiron Brandon http://www.cheironbrandon.typepad.com/
• Pamela Ho (guest designer!) http://fishydesign.wordpress.com/
• Jenn Biederman http://createdbyjb.typepad.com/
• Pearl Lui http://kraftypearl.blogspot.com/ (you're here)
• JJ Bolton http://jjbolton.org

Thanks for stopping by!
- KRAFTY pearl

Mama Elephant Sketch Challenge!

Hi there! I'm excited to share a Mama Elephant Sketch Challenge. The Sketch Challenge will run two weeks, April 1st - April 14th. Mama Elephant is looking for two winners who will each receive 2 sets of stamps from an upcoming release! Winners will participate in our monthly Stampede along with the Design Team and be featured on the Mama Elephant blog throughout the month with their projects using our stamps. How exciting!

Here's how to play: Create a project using the sketch. You must use a Mama Elephant stamp and/or the free digital stamp. Post the challenge graphics on your blog post. Link back to the Mama Elephant blog post. You may enter as many times as you wish! And finally, the deadline to enter is April 14, 2013 at 3:00PM EST.

For all details, visit the Mama Elephant blog now!

Here's the sketch:

Here's my take on the sketch:

Materials used: Mama Elephant Lovely Mums and Hello; SEI pattern paper, Kaisercraft Sparklets

Here's a closer look:

I love the faint Lovely Mums in the background which is a little hard to photograph but looks subtly bright on kraft. I also added glitter confetti sparkles trailing upward from the sentiment.

Get on to the Mama Elephant blog now to enter the challenge today!

Thanks for stopping by!

- KRAFTY pearl