Stampendous Nathalie Kalbach Hop - Elephants on Parade!

All this week Stampendous are having a blog hop along with Nathalie Kalbach to showcase some of her gorgeous Stampendous stamps!

Here's todays hop list:

Stampendous Blog

Katy Leitch - you are here!

Nathalie Kalbach Blog

There are three lucky commenters during the hop that will each win a prize package that includes all three of Nathalie Kalbach’s Foam, Cling Rubber and Stencil Stamp sets. This is open to everyone! To be eligible comment on each blog post on the Stampendous blog and that of each designer’s blog post on the hop this week. Give a shout out to your place of residence, we want to see how far our hop goes around the world! We’ll announce winners on Monday June 20.

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So for the hop today I've been having some fun with Nathalie Kalbach's Elephant stamp set (the set contains a foam stamp, a cling stamp and a stencil) - what a cutie he is!!! I've created two cards which are quite different - one clean and simple, one lush and richly decorated.

The above card was created very simply - I sponged the plain side of the foam stamp with three colours of paint before stamping the image on a white card blank. I then stamped the cling image over the top in black ink. The card is simply finished with a printed greeting, doodled border and gemstone eye.

My second card was inspired by the colours of Indian fabrics. My background is created by painting ColourArte Silks in three colours over a piece of Mixed Media card. When dry I stencilled over with Radiant Gels (which is a thick lustrous gel). I used the stencil from the set for this.

I then stamped the elephant onto purple cardstock with Versamark and embossed him with Pirate Gold embossing powder, before applying him to the card with 3D foam tape.

Finally I edged the card with purple paint and added a little shadowing beneath the elephant with charcoal pencil.

Hope you love heffalump as much as me!

Katy x


Products used:
Stampendous products:
NKCFS01 Nathalie Kalbach Elephant Foam, Cling and Stencil set
EP102 Stampendous Metallic Embossing Powder Pirate Gold

Other:
Card 1:
White 5x7" card blank
Pink, purple and lime acrylic paints
Black gemstone
Black inkpad
Black fineline pen
White gel pen

Card 2:
ColourArte Silks - Mango Mamba, Spiced Pumpkin, Solar Gold
ColourArte Radiant Gel - African Jade
My Colors cardstock - Grape Vine
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics - Dioxazine Purple
Gold gem
3D foam tape