Hello Friends!

Today I sat down to create after looking at the various card challenges out there for a little bit of inspiration.  The Color Throwdown Challenge ends in short order, so I set about rapidly making this card to fit their challenge, as well as the challenge from Freshly Made Sketches.  Unfortunately, the FMS challenge ended at 3:00PM EST and I missed the deadline.  But, this card may be found at CTD621 – I did get it done in time for that 3:00 PM PST deadline!

Who doesn’t love gnomes?  I don’t know what it is about those gnomes, but they’re just so darn cute and surely seem to be trending right now!  I should be just about done with my Christmas cards, though I haven’t counted them up yet!  But, here’s one more just because!

LET’S GET INKY!

Materials:

Stamp sets used:

• Gnome For The Holidays
• Freezin’ Fun
• Curvy Christmas
• Christmas Gleaming

Paper:

• SU Whisper White CS  for card base 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ and image panel 3 1/4″ x 3″
• SU Snowflake Splendor DSP (5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″)
• SU Feels Like Frost DSP (2 strips at 1/2″ x 4 1/2″, and 1 strip at 3/4″ x 5″)
• SU Shaded Spruce mat 3 3/8 x 3 1/8″

Ink:

• Memento Black
• SU Real Red
• SU Smoky Slate
• SU Pool Party

Accessories:

• So Many Snowflakes Dies
• Stampin’ Blends in Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Smoky Slate, Dark Mango Melody
• Wink of Stella Glitter Pen.

PUTTING IT TOGETHER:

1. Adhere the Snowflake Splendor DSP to the Whisper White card base.
2. Center the widest and longest of the strips of Feels Like Frost DSP and adhere to card front.
3. Then align the narrower strips adjacent to the wider strip, equally spaced, and adhere.
4. Stamp the male and female gnomes on a scrap of cardstock and then fussy cut them out to use as masks.
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6. Now stamp the gnomes on your image panel, leaving space between them for the Christmas Tree.
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8. Use removable adhesive and apply the masks over your stamped gnome images.
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10. Stamp the Christmas tree from Freezin’ Fun between the gnomes.
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12. Remove the masks and wa-la, your gnomes appear to be standing in front of the tree.
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14. ** Just a hint – save your masks, place them in the stamp case with the stamps in case you need to mask again sometime in the future!
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16. Color gnomes and tree with Stampin’ Blends.  Use a Wink of Stella to add sparkle to the snow on the tree.
17. Use the larger star stamp from Curvy Christmas to apply star to the top of the tree using Bumblebee ink.
18. Use the snowflake stamp from Curvy Christmas to randomly stamp snowflakes about the scene, using Pool Party ink.
19. Stamp the “Merry Christmas” sentiment from Christmas Gleaming stamp set, in Real Red ink, and then fussy cut out.
20. Adhere the sentiment to the center top of the image panel.
21. Sponge Smoky Slate ink about the edges for a little bit of a vignette effect.
22. Adhere the image panel to the Shaded Spruce CS mat.
23. Use the So Many Snowflakes dies to crop three snowflakes out of Whisper White CS.
24. Adhere two of the snowflakes to the left(ish) side of the card front.
25. Adhere the image panel to center front of card.
26. Adhere the third snowflake over the right top of the image panel.
27. For the inside, I used Real Red Ink to stamp the sentiment from Snowflake Wishes; Pool Party ink to randomly stamp the snowflake from Curvy Christmas; and black ink to stamp the smaller tree from Freezin’ Fun.  The tree was then colored with Shaded Spruce Stampin’ Blends, and the “snow” with Wink of Stella.
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DONE!

Have a fantastic day – now go get INKY!

Janet

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