Mama Elephant March Stampede

Welcome to the Mama Elephant March Stampede! Our March release is now live and available for purchase in the store HERE.

To celebrate the new release, Mama Elephant is giving away 3 gift certificates worth $20.00 each to 3 lucky people! Winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the Stampede. Winners will be announced on the blog on Monday, March 18th. Winners have 48 hours to claim their prize.

Here's how to qualify to win (leave a separate comment for each):

1. Leave a comment on this blog post

2. Become a follower of our blog

3. Like/share us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/mamaelephant

4. Tweet about us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/heymamaelephant

Ready to stampede? Here's the list of designer blogs you'll be visiting:

Mama Elephant Blog
Emily Leiphart (Guest Designer - me!)

Savannah O'Gwynn

Lea Lawson

Mariana Grigsby

Geralyn Sy

JJ Bolton

Cheiron Brandon

Jenn Biederman

Pearl Lui

Alice Wertz

I'm absolutely thrilled to be the guest designer for Mama Elephant's March release! I was so inspired by these stamps that I decided to make a layout of my son. I know, a layout! These stamps are amazing and so versatile. I knew exactly which photos I wanted to feature with them. All of the patterned papers are from BasicGrey's Hey You and Hey Boy collections. You can click on the photos if you want to see more of the details.

I remember this day clearly like it was yesterday. My son had just started smiling a couple of weeks prior and I wanted to capture it on camera. I got his attention and then made him smile. The smile turned into a big cheesy grin! It was so exciting and you can be sure there were lots of hugs and kisses afterwards. Heehee.

I used stamps from three of the March releases on this layout. Starting from the left side of the layout, the phrase over the top of the first photo was created by combining 'You Are' and 'My Favorite Guy' from Papa Love. The title and frame for the journalling are from Today Was. The stitched heart flourish is from one of last month's releases, So Breezy.

At the top of the right side of the layout, I used one of the speech bubbles from Hello. On the second line, I created another custom phrase 'Happy Boy' by using happy from 'And Be Happy', the b from 'Beyond Measure', the o from 'Oh Yes You Are!' and the y from 'And Be Happy'. All of this was easily done using washi tape to mask off portions of the stamps just like I demonstrated in one of my video tutorials. I used the same technique to create the layout title of 'So Happy', again using the words 'Happiness, Sunshine, Joy' from So Breezy. Finally, the 'Oh. Em. Gee' acronym, which I absolutely had to use, is from Good Times.

Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure to check the Mama Elephant Blog on Monday to see if you're one of the lucky winners. I'll be back tomorrow with another special post. :)

Next, you're off to Savannah O'Gwynn's blog! 

Sources:

InLinkz.com