Welcome to the Mama Elephant Design Team blog hop! Our newest release is now live and available for purchase in the store!
I am so excited to share all the cards I made with the November release! This release focuses on Chinese New Year – being of Vietnamese descent, I did celebrate this holiday growing up but it wasn’t until I married my Chinese husband until things got hard core. Lol. I learned a lot more about this day and all the fun traditions (especially the FOOOOOOD) since I’ve been celebrating it with the Lam household. I actually first discovered Mama Elephant by buying all their older Lunar New Year sets and made tags to go on my red packaged gifts that I would hand out to the elders! I’m so excited that Mama Elephant is expanding sets for this holiday that isn’t that big in the United States but one of the biggest (if not the biggest) in China.
Okay, enough about me! Let’s start the card making. Today I am sharing a card I made with Zodiac Ox. I actually did not make a Chinese New Year card to show the versatility of these sets! Today my oxen are cows just hanging out in a grassy farm.
I first stamped and colored my cows with Copic markers. Next, I die cut them with coordinating dies. Note that the coordinate dies come with a set of small dies that will cut out grooves in the hooves so you can tuck things into there little hooves (like the cow holding the plant). This gives you versatility to either cut them out or not, which I love!
For my background, I whipped out my trusty Distress Oxides. For the sky, I ink blended with Cracked Pistachio and Peacock Feathers. For the grass, I first die cut my grass with Mama Elephant Grassy Trio – Creative Cuts then ink blended with Shabby Shutters and a little Mowed Lawn for dimension. I then die cut the Picket Fence – Creative Cuts in white and glued all the pieces together for a fun farm background.
At this point, I was ready to adhere my cows. I glued all the pieces directly onto the card this time. A lot was already going on and I didn’t want it to be too dimensional and not fit into an A2 envelope. Last, I stamped my sentiment on white card stock with Mama Elephant Ocean – Pigment Ink and cut the strip down and glued it to my card as well.
That’s it, my card is complete! Thank you so much for stopping by! Don’t forget to leave a comment for a chance at the giveaway:
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Loving the new release, I want everything and your creation is just adorable. Love Jane x
Thank you for sharing your wonderful card, Thi. Those oxen are truly adorable.
Such an adorable scene with cute critters 🙂
Never knew that ox could look so cute
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Darling scene you created with these cute Zodiac Ox critters! Pretty coloring and details!
Glad that the Ox are able to enjoy a
day of fun. Great scene. Thanks
for the insight to your life – so different
from mine. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
This is such a fun card and the sentiment is fantastic! Thanks for sharing your creativity.
I love the new release! The chubby zodiac animals are adorable! Your Ox card is very cute!
Loving these zodiac animals!!
So very ca-uuute!! Great coloring of these adorable critters.
Awww this is adorable, love this scene!
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These oxes are so adorable…and plump =)
Darling scene and
the cows are adorable!
Carla from Utah
So excited with this release especially with this ox set since it’s my lunar Zodiac! Love that it can be used otherwise 🥰
So cute – luv the design!
Awe this is so Adorable 😍 😍
super cute and love that sentiment hehe!
Incredible coloring! Love the little fence and scene!
Your cards are always so awesome. So pretty.
Fabulous card, so cute and beautifully coloured!
What a cute scene you created!
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These Ox stamps are so adorable – love the card.
Your card is sooooo CUTE!!
I didn’t realize that there were dies for cutting out the ox’s hooves — that’s awesome! It makes building a scene so much easier, since you don’t have to mask.
So cute! I do think these oxen look more like cows, but they are cute regardless. Great scene. I love the fence.
Your card is so adorable….love those critters.
Love the lushy greenery and fun loving ox.
Adorable card.
The oxen look really cute in their natural environment–a field. This is really cute.
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What a cute card. I love that you can cut slits in the hooves so they can hold the adorable little icons. Have fun celebrating!
How cute!! Love the fun sentiment, too!
I love your card!
Love this super fun card with the cute little critters and great scene you made xx