Tips & Tricks | Mama Elephant Design Team

Today, we have two more amazing cardmakers from Mama Elephant's design team, here to show off the upcoming exclusive stamp set in our Cinnamon Spice card add-on. Please help me welcome JJ and Emily!

Hi!  It's JJ Bolton from the Mama Elephant DT and I'm sharing a little card I made using the Cuppa kit and the Cinnamon Spice add-on!  Today I'm showing a tip on how you can add a bit of texture and color by using multiple embossing powders on one stamp.  For my focal point, I'm using the fabulous (and exclusive) Christmas houses stamp that Mama Elephant designed just for Studio Calico.  You're going to love these stamps!  Let's get to the card, shall we?

The first step is to blend ink over the background paper.  I chose the fantastic One Little Bird Studio Calico patterned paper with the stars.  Swoon!

After blending ink over the background paper, use embossing ink and stamp the houses along the bottom edge of the background panel.  

Selectively sprinkle different colored embossing powders only over the desired areas (the garlands between each house image).  Use a small spoon or spatula to make sure you get the powders in the right spots.  If necessary use a small soft bristle paintbrush to get rid of excess powder.  The embossing powder may be a bit hard to see, so make sure you have a good work light handy.  After the powder is in place, heat emboss (one of my favorite things!).

Next you'll want to stamp the houses again onto a separate piece of patterned paper.  This time use black ink and fussy cut the silhouette of the houses.  Be sure to cut out the garlands between the houses.  Those are the parts that are embossed on your background  and will show through:)

After fussy cutting, go back in with a blending tip and add yellow highlights in the windows of each house.  This will give that night time glow.  

Now for the sentiment.  Stamp and emboss the sentiment in white onto vellum and trim into a rectangle.  Now you're ready to to assemble all the pieces.  First, the background panel is glued to the card front.  Next, glue the silhouette over the background panel.  The colorful embossing of the garlands will show between each house.  Finally, attach the sentiment to the card front with washi tape.  Love that silver washi!

Thanks so much to Studio Calico for the letting us over at Mama Elephant play along this month!  It was so much fun to play with all the gorgeous papers and lovely bits and bobs:)    And of course, what's not to love with the new stamps!  Really a match made in heaven:)  

Hi, it's Emily Leiphart and I'm super excited to be joining Studio Calico this month and creating with the November Card Kits.  Studio Calico is one of my favourite manufacturers and I love their patterned papers.  One of this month's card add-on kits, Cinnamon Spice, includes a full-sized holiday stamp set designed by Mama Elephant and it's amazing. In my video below, I share two cards created from both the Cinnamon Spice kit as well as the main card kit, Cuppa.

Thank you so much for sharing these gorgeous cards, JJ & Emily!

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8 comments

  1. Gayatri_Murali says…
    10/24/2013

    Gorgeous cards. Love the coloured embossing over the garland on the first card.

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  2. cjolson says…
    10/24/2013

    Great cards! The little houses are so cute, and I love how JJ and Emily used them!

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  3. NancyM says…
    10/24/2013

    So much fun seeing JJ turn those colorful little piles of embossing powder into a perfect finishing touch on the card. And Emily makes it look oh, so easy. Thanks for the video.

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  4. Amante_del_Papel says…
    10/24/2013

    fantastic cards and greats tutorials!

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  5. Lindsey_MP says…
    10/24/2013

    Terrific cards today! I do love that fun bow on Emily's card!

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  6. cuckootree says…
    10/25/2013

    Eeep! So exciting!

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  7. Isha says…
    10/25/2013

    Gorgeous cards. I love the kit :) Wonderful video by Emily!

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  8. jordanbev5 says…
    10/28/2013

    Love the colorful garland idea especially!! All the cards show the versatility of this kit and stamp set, and the talent of your creative DT!

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