Mama Elephant Designer Series | Cozy Christmas Creative Cuts

*This is 1 of 2 posts today. For the Lawn Fawn September Inspiration Week card and video featuring Snow Day Stamp and dies, click HERE.

Happy First Day of Fall!

Christmas is three months away so it's the perfect time to start your holiday paper crafting! Today I have an oversized gift tag adorned with stamped, colored and die cut Christmas images perfect for adding to a package, a plate of goodies for a neighbor or even adhering to a card to send to a loved one. Mama Elephant just released the Cozy Christmas Creative Cuts dies to coordinate with the super adorable Cozy Christmas Stamp Set.

I created a Christmas scene by combining Santa, the tree, and gifts from Cozy Christmas with the car from Carnival Toppers and teddy bear from Carnival Cupcakes. The oversize tag and banner are from the new Tag A Lot Creative Cuts die collection.

I stamped all the images to color on smooth white cardstock and colored them in with Copic Markers.

For Santa I used the follwing colors to color in his skin:

To color in the red for Santa's suit, I started with R14.

Next, I added my mid-tone red color, R46. I tend to add less to begin. I can go back and pull in more of this color as needed after adding my darkest color.

For my darkest red color, R39, I used it to add some shadowing:

After blending, here's sweet Santa (pretend I colored in his pants and for that matter his nose too....)

To color in the "white" on Santa's suit and beard I used these Cool Gray Copic colors:

To color in the tree I like to use the feathering technique starting with the lightest yellow-green Copic color, YG93.

Next, I feathered in my darkest yellow-green color, YG99, from the top of each layer of the tree.

Next I filled in with my mid-tone yellow-green Copic Marker, YG97.

To add some detail shadowing under each "layer" of the tree I added some Cool Gray 7. 

I colored in the smaller images and die cut them with the coordinating Cozy Christmas Creative Cuts, Carnival Toppers Creative Cuts and Carnival Cupcakes Creative Cuts.

For the background of the jumbo tag, I masked off the stitched border using post it tape and repeatedly stamped the greeting "merry and bright" from the Polar Pals stamp set to give my tag a subtle text background.

I stamped the greeting from Cozy Christmas on the banner from Tags A Lot and embossed it with gold embossing powder.

 This tag is all ready to tie to a package and give to someone special! I hope this has inspired you to start  your holiday paper crafting....

(Click SSS = to purchase from Simon Says Stamp, EH = to purchase from Ellen Hutson, MFT = to purchase from My Favorite Things, SB.COM = to purchase from scrapbook.com, AZ = to purchase from Amazon)

Mama Elephant Clear Stamp COZY CHRISTMAS Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Cozy Christmas Mama Elephant COZY CHRISTMAS Creative Cuts Die Set ME14-0904 Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Carnival Toppers Mama Elephant CARNIVAL TOPPERS Clear Stamp Set ME-1408CT Mama Elephant CARNIVAL TOPPERS Creative Cuts Die Set ME-0814CT Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Carnival Toppers Mama Elephant CARNIVAL CUPCAKES Clear Stamp Set ME-1408CC Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Carnival Cupcakes Mama Elephant CARNIVAL CUPCAKES Creative Cuts Die Set MEL-0814CC Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Carnival Cupcakes Mama Elephant Clear Stamp POLAR PALS Set ME1210-006 Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Polar Pals My Favorite Things GROUT GRAY Hybrid Ink Pad MFT Hybrid Ink Pad Grout Gray Memento Ink Pad, Tuxedo Black @ellen Memento Tuxedo Black COPIC Sketch Marker R14, Light Rouge Copic Sketch Marker R14 LIGHT ROUGE Bright Bold R20 Blush R20 Blush Copic Sketch Marker R46 STRONG RED Bright Bold R46 Strong Red R39 Garnet Copic Sketch Marker R39 GARNET Dark Red Copic Sketch Marker RV29 CRIMSON Red r v 29 COPIC Sketch Marker RV29, Crimson Copic Sketch MARKER YR09 CHINESE ORANGE COPIC Sketch Marker YR09, Chinese Orange COPIC Sketch Marker YR12, Loquat Copic Sketch Marker YR12 LOQUAT Pale Orange Copic Sketch Marker Y08 ACID YELLOW Bright Bold COPIC Sketch Marker Y08, Acid Yellow Y11 PALE YELLOW SKETCH MARKER Copic Sketch MARKER Y11 PALE YELLOW YG17 Grass Green Copic Sketch Marker YG17 GRASS GREEN Bold Copic Sketch Marker YG25 CELADON GREEN Medium Bold YG25 Celadon Green COPIC Sketch Marker YG93, Grayish Yellow YG93 Grayish Yellow COPIC Sketch Marker YG95, Pale Olive YG95 Pale Olive COPIC Sketch Marker YG97, Spanish Olive Copic Sketch Marker YG97 SPANISH OLIVE Dark Green Moss COPIC Sketch Marker YG99, Marine Green YG99 Marine Green COPIC Sketch Marker E02, Fruit Pink Copic Sketch MARKER e02 FRUIT PINK Flesh Skin Tone E00 Skin White E00 Skin White E11 Bareley Beige E11 Bareley Beige COPIC Sketch Marker E42, Sand White Copic Sketch Marker E42 SAND WHITE Beige Cream COPIC Sketch Marker E47, Dark Brown Copic Sketch MARKER e47 DARK BROWN COPIC Sketch Marker E55, Light Camel E55 Light Camel C00 Cool Gray Copic Sketch Marker C00 COOL GRAY C1 Cool Gray Copic Sketch Marker C1 COOL GRAY Grey Copic Sketch MARKER C3 COOL GRAY Grey C3 Cool Gray C7 Cool Gray Copic Sketch MARKER C7 COOL GRAY Grey Versamark Frost VersaMark Dazzle, Frost American Crafts Zing! GOLD METALLIC Glitter Embossing Powder @simon ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER CLEAR Brush Tip Marker Zig Wink of Stella Glitter Brush Tip Marker Sakura Glaze Pen, Black Sakura BLACK GLAZE GEL PENS Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# OLIVE OV3 Neenah Solar White Cardstock Mini Sparkling Clear Sequins Pretty Pink Posh 4MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins Sparkling Clear Sequins Pretty Pink Posh 6MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins Pretty Pink Posh Sequins, 6 mm Cupped, Sparkling Clear 4mm Metallic Gold Sequins Pretty Pink Posh 4MM METALLIC GOLD Cupped Sequins Pretty Pink Posh Sequins, 4mm Cupped, Metallic Gold Classic Christmas Sequins Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Powder Blue & Teal @simon Sizzix Big Shot Cutting and Embossing Die-Cut Machine Mama Elephant TAGS A LOT Creative Cuts Die Set ME14-0907 Hero Arts Heat Tool Milwaukee Model 1400 Heat Gun Inkadinkado Embossing Magic Powder Bag 3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent 3M Scotch 1/2-Inch by 36-Yard Double-Sided Foam Tape

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More projects created with the September 2014 ME Creative Cuts dies release:

• "A Gift For You" Tag feat. Tags A Lot Creative Cuts dies
• "Merry Christmas" Card feat. Winter Wonderland Creative Cuts (video)
• "Merry Christmas" Card feat. Peek A Frame Creative Cuts, Cozy Christmas Stamps and Cozy Christmas Creative Cuts dies (video)
• "From Our Home To Yours" Card feat. Polar Pals Creative Cuts and Stamps and Tags A Lot and Polaroid Creative Cuts dies (video)