Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight: Lovely Mums

Hey y'all!  You've seen the peeks all week from Kryssi and stampeded with the whole team, now it's time for Mama Elephant's March release highlights!  BTW, the new release is live now and available for purchase in the store!  The first set to highlight is Lovely Mums!

Everybody needs a stash of flower stamps.  Although I make a ton of masculine cards (twin boys will do that to ya!), the cards that get the most ooh's and aah's are the real girly ones!  This set is about as girly as it gets;)  I love that when Kryssi and Angela designed this set, they included an outline AND a fill version of the 2 flower images.  So for my cards, I did an outline version and a fill version!  This first card uses the outline bloom that has been colored in with Copics.  {I'm a Copic newbie, but if you want to learn from the master check out Alice's blog!}

I just added 2 little banners to ground the flower and stamped the sentiment and that was it!  A quick card that looks like it took much longer;)  For my second card, I used the fill/solid version of the flowers.  Some of these flowers I stamped, fussy cut, and glued with foam tape.  Some are stamped directly to the card base.  {BTW, I'm using Hero Arts Shadow Ink and it is so pretty!!}  To create the shading, I used my handy dandy Copic marker...again!  Can't seem to stop doing this technique.  Believe it or not, I got this shading using only one marker.  

If you like this look, here are some tips for shading.  Choose a similar shade that is just slightly darker than the image you are shading.  You don't have to use multiple markers to get that variation.  Add strokes in layers, more strokes = darker color.  It's just that easy.  I usually start from the bottoms of the petals and flick upward/outward.  Like I said, I'm totally not an expert just passing along what I did specifically for this card:)

That's it for me today!  THANK YOU for stopping in!  Please go visit the other Mama Elephant team members and see what they did this lovely set!

Mama Elephant/Kryssi 

Alice Wertz 
Cheiron Brandon 
Lea Lawson
Mariana Grigsby 
Savannah O'Gwynn 

JJ Bolton (you are here)

Come back tomorrow for another highlight from the March release!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Mahalo and Aloha,

jj