Mama Elephant Designer Series: Beary Good Day Shadow Box

 Hi crafty friends! Today I'm on the Mama Elephant Blog with my first ever Designer Series post! Please check it out over there as well because I have a fun intro and story of how I got into crafting!

Now onto my card! This card is very dear to my heart because I made it with my daughter in mind. She loves pandas and is the reason why I bought my first Mama Elephant set… and I’m even using Pandamonium on this card! Full circle!

This is an inside shadow box card inspired by a Jennifer McGuire video but modified to be a square shaped card with peekaboo feature. I used the Heart Pocket Set to create the peekaboo heart cutout on the front and the inside window of the shadow box. I used some patterned paper for the front and inside of the card. To create the heart garlands, I cut out lots of hearts from pink glitter paper, cream and lavender cardstock using the hearts from the Basic Set dies. Then I made a “heart sandwich”—heart, glue, thread, heart—and did this for every heart on the garland. I adhered the garland to the inside edge of the shadow box window with double sided tape and glue.

For the images, I colored up the cute bear from Beary Good Day with Copic markers (T3, T5, T6, C00, C0, C1, W0, W1, R30) and turned him into a panda. I wanted to make lots and lots of hearts so I did some masking to create additional piles of hearts, colored them (V01, V04, E93, E00, R42, R30) and fussy cut the custom images. Finally, I stamped sentiments from Beary Good Day and Pandamonium and put together the card.

Thanks for stopping by today! Happy crafting!

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