One of our nieces turned ten years old at the weekend. She loves animals, and sloths are among her favourites. Of course, I bought the Mama Elephant Little Sloth Agenda set with her in mind. Our nieces inspire quite a lot of my crafty purchases, not that I actually need that much swaying! Check out the sloth birthday card and gift bag I created for her below.

Sloth Birthday Card & Gift Bag

I had a lot of fun playing with some long neglected stash to create these! For starters, I pulled out my Distress Oxide inks. It has been way too long since I played with my inks. I’ve listed the ink colours used below together with the Copic colours.

Sloth Birthday Card & Gift Bag featuring Mama Elephant stamps and dies

Stamps Used: Little Sloth Agenda, Swinging Borders
Dies Used: Big Happy Birthday, Framed Tags Madison Avenue, Favor Bag, Favor Bag Accessory Dog, Favor Bag Accessory Bear, Lawn Fawn Finley’s ABCs

I used a couple of different Favor Bag Accessory die sets to create the sloth face, as Mama Elephant don’t have a specific sloth set. This is one of the things I love about these die sets – lots of different possibilities. I did have to trim the piece for the face down and I used glossy enamel dots for the eyes, but the other elements are die cut.

The links above are for Dies to Die For in the UK, where I purchase most of my Mama Elephant goodies. If you’re in the US you can of course find everything at Mama Elephant. I fussy cut the sloths and leaf borders, but you can get the coordinating die sets for these if you prefer to die cut.

I stamped the images on my favourite Make it Colour Blending Card before colouring with Copic Markers.

Sloth Birthday Card & Gift Bag featuring Mama Elephant stamps and dies

Copic Markers & Inks etc Used

Sloths: E71,E74,E77 / E40,E41,BV31 / RV25,RV17
Branches: E35 / G05
Leaves: G03,G05,G07

Distress Oxides: Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar / Blueprint Sketch, Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass

Splatter: water in a spray bottle, and Lindy’s Stamp Gang Magicals in Golden Sleigh Bells

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