Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight | Splendid

*This is 1 of 2 posts today. For the Lawn Fawn Scripty Thanks Die blog post and video, please click HERE.*

Today I've got a new card share showcasing the brand new Mama Elephant Splendid Stamp Set. I combined the Splendid stamped greeting with the panda and balloons from Pandamonium for this sweet and simple card!

To stamp my greeting, I inked up only part of the greeting with SSS Black Ink by masking off the script style lettering with post it tape, removing the masking tape and stamping the image. Then I cleaned my stamp, masked off the words "every" and "single" and inked up the rest of the greeting with Salty Ocean Distress Ink, spritzed it with a Mini Mister filled with water 3-4 times and stamped the greeting on Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper. Even though this gives the greeting a nice watercolored look, it still wasn't quite enough "distressed watercoloring" for me so I grabbed a wet paintbrush before the ink dried and wet the Distress Ink more, pulling the ink outside the lines a bit, then I set it aside to dry.

 

I stamped the panda and balloon strings from Pandamonium on smooth white cardstock using SSS Black Ink. I stamped the balloons using Versamark Ink and heat set them with white embossing powder. To add color to the balloons, I created "watercolors" from Distress Inks on my craft mat and used a paintbrush to apply the color inside the embossed image. I set them aside to dry and then die cut all the images with the coordinating Pandamonium Creative Cuts dies.

I created some "grass" along the bottom of the watercolor paper by die cutting SSS Green Leaf Cardstock with the Landscape Trio dies.

I thought the card needed some stars so I stamped some from both Splendid and Make A Wish using Distress Inks spritzed with water for the same watercolor effect as the greeting!

 

Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Splendid Mama Elephant Clear Stamp SPLENDID Mama Elephant Clear Stamp PANDAMONIUM ME1312-056 Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Pandamonium Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Pandamonium Mama Elephant PANDAMONIUM Creative Cuts Steel Dies BARN DOOR DISTRESS INK Distress Ink Pad, Barn Door Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink Distress Ink Pad, Spiced Marmalade @ellen Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Mowed Lawn @ellen Mowed Lawn Distress Ink SALTY OCEAN DISTRESS INK Distress Ink Pad, Salty Ocean @ellen Ranger Mini Mister, Individual @ellen Inkssentials Mini Mister (Lot of 3) Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paint ARTIST BRUSHES Brush Ranger SSS Premium Dye Ink Pad BLACK Versamark Frost VersaMark Dazzle, Frost Inkadinkado Embossing Magic Powder Bag Hero Arts WHITE EMBOSSING POWDER Milwaukee Model 1400 Heat Gun Hero Arts Heat Tool Zig Wink of Stella Glitter Brush Tip Marker ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER CLEAR Brush Tip Marker Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# GREEN APPLE GA6 Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# GREEN LEAF GL11 Neenah Solar White Cardstock Distress Watercolor Cardstock Tim Holtz DISTRESS WATERCOLOR CARDSTOCK Ranger Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Powder Blue & Teal @simon Sizzix Big Shot Machine, Powder Blue & Teal @ellen Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Landscape Trio Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Landscape Trio American Crafts Foam Dot Adhesive 3M Scotch ROLL PINK MASKING TAPE Post-It Adhesive 3M Scotch ROLL WHITE MASKING TAPE Post-It Adhesive 2650-W Sistema KLIP IT 3 Containers Clear Three Pack Sistema Klip It 3 by 6.7-Ounce Containers, 3-Pack, Clear Mini Plastic TASTING SPOONS Pack of 100 Mini Plastic Tasting Spoons And Ice Cream Spoons

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Check out all the amazing new Mama Elephant products now in stock: 

Mama Elephant Clear Stamp SPLENDID Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Splendid Mama Elephant Clear Stamp AROUND WE GO Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Around We Go Mama Elephant Around We Go Creative Cuts Steel Dies Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Around We Go Mama Elephant Clear Stamp SIGHTSEEING Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Sightseeing Mama Elephant SITESEEING Creative Cuts Steel Die Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Sightseeing Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Cityscape Mama Elephant Cityscape Creative Cut Steel Dies Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Sweet Havana Mama Elephant Clear Stamp Sweet Havana Set Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Sweet Havana Mama Elephant Sweet Havana Creative Cuts Die

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More cards from the Mama Elephant May 2014 Release:

• "Hooray It's Your Special Day" Cards for the May 2014 Stampede Blog Hop feat. ME Splendid Stamp Set
• "Wishing You the Best Time of Your Life" Card feat. ME Around We Go Stamp Set, ME Around We Go Creative Cuts and ME Cityscape Creative Cuts

Please be sure to check out all the great Design Team projects showcasing Splendid on the ME Blog HERE.