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Mama Elephant 7th Anniversary Stampede + Giveaways! | Cute Christmas Card feat The Penguin Waddle

By on Monday, September 16, 2019

Hello everyone and welcome to a very special Mama Elephant Design Team blog hop! We are celebrating 7 years this month with a fantastic new holiday release along with our amazing friends!


I am really honored and excited to be part of this year’s celebrations, and I really hope you will enjoy my project and the video tutorial I filmed! 
Make sure to read this post until the end for more details about the project, all the promotion for Mama Elephant’s anniversary and the giveaways too! 

Here is the promotional flyer for this year’s celebration. Mama Elephant added an extra freebie tier this time around! 

You can shop the newest release which is LIVE in the Mama Elephant store now!
For my card today I used the new The Penguin Waddle stamp set. I love how sweet this set is and, because it is a rather large, you really just need to stamp it, color it and add a sentiment! And your card is done!

For my coloring today I used my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and I added some details with a white gel pen. Make sure to check out the video down below to watch the coloring process and for a list of the markers I used.

After coloring the images, I moved on and started working on the background. I used my Distress Oxides in Blueprint Sketch and Shaded Lilac and I blended them over some Bristol Smooth cardstock. I added some droplets with my Perfect Pearls tocreate more interest and add some shimmer (it is a Christmas card, after all!). 
For the die cut sentiment I used one of the dies in the the coordinating set to the The Penguin’s Waddle stamps – I love the greeting and the font is really great!

To decorate the card front a little more, I used the smaller images in the set (the fish and the fish bowl) and turned them into cute Christmas ornaments hanging from the top of my card! Aren’t they adorable?! This set is definitely one of my favorites from the release!

I added some Glossy Accents to the beaks of the penguins and that finished off the card.
If you are interested in more details about this project, I have a video for you! You can watch it down below or directly on my YouTube channel!
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That’s not all! To celebrate this special Anniversary release, Mama Elephant is giving away ten $25 gift certificates to our store!!! That is 10 winners!!! Winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the 3 day Stampede. You have up to 4 chances to qualify to win!
» 1. Leave a comment on this blog post «


» 2. Like/share Mama Elephant on Facebook: facebook.com/mamaelephant «
» 3. Follow/tweet Mama Elephant on Twitter: twitter.com/heymamaelephant «
» 4. Follow/leave a comment for Mama Elephant on Instagram: instagram.com/mamaelephant «
(Each action qualifies for one entry, max 4 entries per stampeder please!)




Here are the designers for today. Please make sure to visit each of them and leave some kind words and comments!

Francine Vuillème » www.1001cartes.ch
Laura Volpes » www.abitofmycrafts.blogspot.com
Krstina Werner » www.kwernerdesign.com/blog
Mama Elephant » www.mamaelephantblog.com

Thank you and Happy Stampeding!

The items marked with a * were sent to me for free for designing purposes.
When possible, affiliated links are used at no additional cost to you. This means that if you make a purchase through one of these links, I will get a small commission at no additional cost to you. The money I earn this way goes towards running this blog and my YouTube channel and allows me to keep sharing inspiration with you. Thank you for your support! 💖




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  6. TLady
    Reply

    HOW SWEET to use the smaller images in the set as Ornament! This WOULD keep those Penguins HAPPY!!! LOL Your coloring came out WONDERFULLY! A SUPER JOB, Laura!!! ;)<3

  8. Barbara
    Reply

    My two favorites from this release have been the Puppy Tree and the Penguin Waddle sets and I couldn't decide which I liked best. Your card just pushed me over in favor of Penguin Waddle. 🙂

  27. Sam B
    Reply

    Love this card – all those adorable little penguins all dressed up! Thank you for doing a video too; always helps me to learn more to improve my coloring to see how the experts do it!

  59. Connie
    Reply

    Hi Laura 🙂 I love penguins and it's extra terrific that you gave each one of these their own personalities!!! You made my day! Thanks for inspiring me 🙂

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