A5 Gnomes - Christmas Greetings

Good Morning

Alice here.  Hope you are all getting well prepared for Christmas.  Sorry about my picture today, it seems to be very light.  It is a much deeper shade in real life!  I used the A5 Gnomes Stamps for this and the small tree from the A5 Trees Stamp Set.  You can find all the stamps I used and many more on the Colourific Website. 

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A5 Trees

11.5 x 21cm Kraft Card Blank

10.75 x 19.25cm Gold Mirri Mat

9.5 x 19cm Kraft Card Mat

Various colours of distress inks

Glitter Glue

• Using a little piece of double sided tape I secured the smaller piece of kraft card centrally onto the card blank then secured these layers onto a Stamping Platform with magnets.
• Stamped the Gnome with Vintage Photo Distress ink onto 9.5x19.25cm Kraft Card.  Leaving the card on the stamping platform  I Sprayed with water and let the dye seep outwards.  Used a paintbrush to bring it out a little further. 
• Keeping the card still in place on the stamping platform, put some Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Green Dye ink onto glass mat. Using water and paint brush I painted the Gnome with muted colours of the inks.  When this was dry, I stamped over the image.
• Still keeping the work on the Stamping Platform, I put a mask over the Gnome and used the small Christmas Tree to stamp a border around the 2 layers of card.
• Remove from stamping platform and separate the 2 layers of card.  Mat the image onto the Gold mat, and using foam pads mount it onto the Kraft Card making sure the border of trees match up.
• To finish off I added a Christmas Greeting layered onto a piece of gold mirri card. 
• Used glitter glue for the pompom, beard and stars.

           Thank you for looking, and happy crafting.

A5 Gnomes - There's Gnome place like Home

Hi

Exciting times today, it's the 14TH OCTOBER, 2019 and that means the Launch of the new Colourific Stamps.  I was excited to get the new stamps and have been having a real good play with them.  I have chosen to use the new A5 Gnomes as my first DT sample.  Pop on over to Colourific to see the whole range of wonderful new Stamps. 

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A5 Peace and Joy

Copic Markers Blue, Red and Green shades

8 x 8 Kraft Card Blank

7.75 x 7.75 Red Mat

7.5 x 7.5 Christmas Pattern paper

7 x 7 Red mat

6.75 x 6.75 White mat

Red Gems

Glitter Glue

Blue Distress Ink Pad

Tree Stamp from my stash

• Layer the 7.75x7.75 mat onto the Kraft Card, followed by the 7.5 x 7.5                          Patterned Christmas Paper.      
• Using Foam pads mat the 7 x 7 Red mat onto the Christmas Paper layer.
• Using a piece of torn copy paper and the distress ink, make a light snowy hill                 background and sky.
• Stamped the Gnome on Masking Paper and cut it out.  Stamped the centre Gnome first, then placed the mask over it and stamped the Gnomes either side.
• Coloured the first Gnome and used alternate colours on the other 2 Gnomes.
• Used the Branch from the Peace and Joy set and stamped it in various colours            along the top corner of the card.
• Masked off the Gnomes again and lightly stamped some trees behind so they looked in the distance.
• Added some glitter glue to the Gnomes Beards and the Pompoms on their hats.
• Stamped and embossed a Sentiment, matted it onto some scrap red card and attached it with foam pads     
• Finished off with some red gems on the branches.

Thank you to everyone for looking.  Remember to pop over to the Colourific Stamps website for a look at all the new stamps.