Elephant Greetings!

What a fun week it's going to be for the Stampendous Design Team with our theme of "Where the Wild Things Are"!!! Stampendous has sooooo many great images that work perfectly for this fun theme! Lucky for me, because I'm part of the team, Stampendous has provided me several of these to create lots of samples!

Today I'm sharing the Dreamweaver Open Elephant stencil (DWLG756) paired with the Pop Rectangles stencil (DWLJ929) in the background to create a Welcome Baby card. Just by changing the base card color, you can make it girlish, boyish, don't knowish (pale yellow or green).  Plus, it's pretty quick and easy.

Stampendous:

SSC1242 Animal Mobile PCS
Acrylic Handle
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper
DCP1006 Fitted Frames B Die Cut - R (elephant), K (words)
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Dreamweaver:

DWLG756 Open Elephant Stencil
DWLJ929 Pop Rectangles Stencil
DWDEP Regular Embossing Paste
DWDSP Silver Embossing Paste
DWDGWP Glossy White Embossing Paste
DWDPK Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock - Spearmint, Caribbean Sea
Brilliance Inks- Pearlescent Orange, Pearlescent Coral,Pearlescent Thyme
Foam tape
Die Cut Machine
Removable tape
Zutter 1/2" corner rounder

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 6" x 9 1/2" piece of Spearmint cardstock in half to form an A6 card
Step 2:  Die cut a white and dark teal layer from the Fitted Frames set B size R for the elephant, and size K for the saying

Step 3: Tape the Elephant stencil to the white die cut frame with removable tape
Step 4:  Use the palette knife to mix a small dollop of Regular and an equal amount of Silver embossing pastes together on a piece of freezer paper until well mixed, this will create a matte silver paste, use the paste spreader to apply a coat across the elephant stencil, remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning, let image dry
Step 5:  Tape the Pop Rectangles stencil to the front left side of the card with removable tape

Step 6:  Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply a coat of Glossy White Embossing Paste over the rectangles, remove stencil and place in water for cleaning, let paste dry well
Step 7: Stamp the Welcome Baby on the small white frame using Tuxedo Black ink, then adhere to the matching Spearmint mat

Step 8: Round the corners of the card
Step 9: Adhere the elephant to it's matching frame, then use foam tape to attach it to the card front
Step 10: Adhere the saying to the elephant layer

Check out more wild designs at the 

Stampendous Blog

Happy Creating,
Louise

Welcome to the Hop!

Welcome to the Stampendous and May Arts blog hop for Thursday!  Both teams have been sharing some wonderful creations this week with the products from these two great companies.

Leave us comments for a chance to win a great prize package!

The new Fitted Frames sets A and B from Stampendous work perfectly with the stencils too!

Stampendous:

SSC1242 Animal Mobile Perfectly Clear Set

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Acrylic Handle

MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

DCP1006 Fitted Frames B - P, K

Dreamweaver:

DWLL482 Pineapple Stencil
DWDEPT Translucent Embossing Paste
DWNHB-12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle
DWGHB-6 1/4" Brush #6 Gold Handle

DWDPK Dreamweaver Palette Knife

DWLM2010 Paste Spreader

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock - Herb Garden
Canvas Corp Cardstock - Green and Ivory Lattice
Memento Marker - Rich Cocoa
Brilliance Inks - Sunflower Yellow, Pearlescent Orange, Pearlescent Rust, Rocket Red, Pearlescent Olive, Pearlescent Thyme
May Arts Ribbon
Mini Glue Dots
Micro glitter Gold
Foam tape
Removable tape
Paper towel

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 4 5/8" x 12" piece of Green & Ivory Lattice cardstock in half to form an A6 card
Step 2:  Die cut a white and green layer from the nesting frames set

Step 3: Tape the stencil to the white die cut frame with removable tape
Step 4:  Use a 1/2" stencil brush to rouge a coat of yellow ink over the whole design, use 1/4" brushes to add more colors, remove and clean the stencil
Step 5:  Place the clean, dry stencil back over the colored image and use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply Translucent Embossing Paste over the stencil, remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning, let the paste dry very thoroughly, it will dry with a clear, glossy finish

Step 6: Die cut a small white and green mat using the nesting frames set
Step 7:  Place the Welcome Baby stamp from the Animal Mobile set on an acrylic handle, mask the word Baby and ink only the Welcome with black ink, stamp on the small white frame

Step 8: Adhere the Welcome to the matching green mat, add a Mini Glue Dot at each end and sprinkle with Gold Micro Glitter

Step 9: Wrap  a yellow May Arts ribbon around the card front and tie a bow near the left edge

Step 10:  Adhere the Pineapple layer to the matching green mat and use foam tape to attach the pineapple and welcome to the card front

Keep on hopping:

Stampendous Blog

Laura Drahozal (DW and May Arts)

Pam Bray (DW and May Arts)

Louise Healy (DW and May Arts)

Happy Creating,

Louise