"New" Product Tuesday: Playful Pups Card Set featuring Mama Elephant

Greetings, friends!

Today I'm featuring the Mama Elephant Playful Pups stamps and creative cuts (dies) set.  This set was released last month, but I haven't had a chance to use it until today.  I wanted to keep the design "clean and simple" and I wanted to incorporate some of those awesome Mama Elephant script dies.  So here are the three cards:

 Materials:

• Mama Elephant Playful Pups Stamps and Dies
• Mama Elephant "Hello" Script Die
• Mama Elephant "Smile" Script Die
• Mama Elephant "Thanks" Script Die
• White card stock for the card base (2 - 4.25"W x 11"H, scored at 5.5" mark and 1 - 5.5"W x 8.5"H, scored at 4.25" mark for the hello card)
• Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles dies
• Simon Says Stamp Stitched Circles dies
• Sizzix Nested Oval Dies
• Distress Inks for Watercolor Background
• Watercolor Paper (Approx 4.25"H x  5.5"W)
• Copic Markers:
• Dog: E53, E55, E57
• Red Accessories: R20, R24
• Tennis Ball: YG21, YG03
• Foam Adhesive (tons of it)
• Liquid Glue
• Adhesive Tape Runner

Directions:

• First make the watercolor background paper.  I mixed a variety of distress inks to make the red, blue and yellow water color background.  I added some pigment ink to make a subtle bokeh effect.  I don't know how visible that ended up being, so you could skip that step if you wanted.
• While the watercolor paper is drying, die cut the layout from a piece of white card stock.  You can die cut everything (except the pups) all in one pass:
• Stitched Rectangle (largest size)
• Two sizes of the circle or oval dies
• Script dies
• Once the watercolor paper has dried, run it through the die cut machine with the largest stitched rectangle die so it's the same size as you layout.
• Stamp the Playful Pups on Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.  Color with Copic Markers.  Die cut using the coordinating dies.
• I wanted to add dimension to these cards, so I used foam adhesive under the front panel, but I glued the frames (circle and ovals) directly onto the watercolor paper.  I also glued the innards of the words (loops between the letters) directly onto the watercolor paper too.
• Add tons of foam adhesive to the back of the front panel and glue that on top of the water color paper.
• Add the puppies using foam adhesive.
• Adhere this entire piece to the front of the card base.

 Here are all three cards together:

Thanks for checking out these cards!