The Paper Players #775

The Paper Players are looking for Mystical Creatures for their current challenge.  I don't have any dragons or unicorns but I do have gnomes so I went with that.  

This card was created last Halloween but I never posted it.  I hope that's okay and that this cutie is accepted into the gallery.  The gnome is from Gina K and the witches hat from Sizzix fit him perfectly.  The background paper is from Doodlebug Designs, the oval is from Spellbinders and the  sentiment was computer generated.

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Inkspirational #361 and Double D "Signs of Love"

This card has been sitting on my desk and I'd better get it posted before the challenge time runs out.  It's for Inkspirational and Double D - Signs of Love.

Inkspirational has a visual prompt and I was drawn to the gnome.  He's from a Christmas set from Gina K but I turned him into a valentine gnome by using a scrap of heart paper for his hat and a sentiment from the set.  The background is a coverplate from Honey Bee and the folk heart is from Ellen Hutson, embossed with Altenew's Organic Linen folder. 

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Time Out #264

This week at Time Out we challenge you to be Magical.

I thought of a lot of different things that can be Magical but I don't have a lot of stamps in those categories.  I did come up with an idea though that looks pretty magical to me.

I started with mushrooms from The Greetery, coloring them with Distress Inks.  Then I went on a hunt for the right gnome and decided on this one from Sugar Pea Designs, coloring him with Altenew artist markers.  Then it was time for scene building.  An inked background, a grass die from Gina Marie and some  'ferns' from MFT  were all I needed to finish off my magical place. 

Picket Fence is our sponsor for this challenge and they are giving the winner a $25 store credit.  The Design Team has made some wonderful cards for your inspiration.  Please check them out and then pull out your magical stamps and enter a card in our gallery. 

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52 Christmas Card Throwdown 24.7

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This week's theme at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is not quite what I would think of for a Christmas card but a little creativity and die cuts in my stash worked wonders.

The theme was mushrooms so I cut some from The Greetery in white and inked with Kitsch Flamingo and Old Paper Distress Inks.  The gnome is from SSS, inked with Peacock Feathers and the Gina Marie grass is Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn.  To give it a more Christmas feel, I inked the edges with Tumbled Glass before cutting with the C9 coverplate.  The sentiment is from Sugar Pea Designs.  I love the non-traditional Christmas colors which are quickly becoming more traditional for some designers.   

So another Christmas card goes in my box.  With those left over from the end of the year and the ones I've made so far this year I have 20.  I think that's a pretty good start.

 

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52 Christmas Card Throwdown 23-2

Several ideas crossed my mind for the color challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown but not one of them seemed right. Then I remembered my GinaK gnomes.  

It's hard to photograph silver but it's there in the polka dots and sentiment.  The gnome, dressed in turquoise from my scraps, is popped up on Desert Storm cardstock.  I hope the white beard is okay.

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Just Us Girls #656 - Wild Card Week

When there are five Saturdays in a month the host gets to chose anything she wants for the challenge at Just Us Girls.  This month Carol Mc chose 

I don't make a lot of gift tags so this is my first for the year.

I made the little SSS gnome out of scraps of DSP and used some new Fluff It Paste for his beard.  You spread it on with a palette knife and then heat emboss to get the texture.  I'm a little disappointed that it's not pure white.  I gave him a home on diagonal plaid paper cut with a fancy stitched die. 

Holiday tags is a wide open theme so you should have no trouble making one or more for our gallery.  Need a little inspiration?  Check out the Design Team and our guest Lynne over on the blog. 

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Christmas Kickstart #61

I am way behind in making Christmas cards so when I saw the Christmas Kickstart challenge - From my gnome to yours - I had to enter.  I have a number of gnome stamps and dies but chose a die from GinaK for my card.

He's pretty self explanatory.  I decided to give him a plaid hat but everything else was cut from regular cardstock.  The homes from Reverse Confetti Christmas Gnome were added to the background and the panel matted in red and black using A2 rectangles from Waffle Flower.  I must have inadvertently put another cardstock in my PTI folder and didn't realize the color was different until I went to add the panel to my base.  I really like them to match but I was too far gone to change anything. 

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The Male Room #156 and ABC Christmas - W

I had a lot of fun playing with GinaK's gnomes and made a number of cards that I never posted.  I was just waiting for challenges like The Male Room and ABC Christmas. - Whimsical

The body and hat were cut from aqua cardstock and the hat foiled with silver polka dots.  The background was inked with Speckled Egg and the mountains stamped over it in a couple shades of brown.  Texture paste was added through a stencil to the tops for snow.  A few splatters for more snow and a sentiment from the same set was all I needed to finish it off. 

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AAA Cards #202

 AAA Cards had me at gnome.  That is the option for their sketch challenge. 

I bought the Gina K set and have been having fun making gnomes.   I made this one a Scandinavian gnome by using patterned paper from American Crafts.  The sentiment is from another gnome set I have from Sugar Pea.  Here's the sketch.

As you can see I made an A2 card instead of square.

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