Reindeer Gnomes Christmas Card

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Greetings! It's Kathi here to share my last card created  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Christmas in July Challenge #211 with the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Sheet.

Place a 6" x 3" wide piece of white cardstock onto a stamping platform. Position the Reindeer/Santa Mini Gnome from the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Sheet facedown on the far left of the stamping platform. Ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.

Slide the cardstock along the base of the stamping platform 1 3/16" to the left. Ink the stamp again with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp.

Slide the cardstock along the base of the platform again to the 1 3/16" to the left, ink the stamp, and stamp again. Repeat this process until you have a five and a quarter Reindeer/Santa Mini Gnomes.

Use Copic markers to color all the Reindeer/Santa Mini Gnomes. Draw a line with a C0 Copic marker to ground the Reindeer/Santa Mini Gnomes. Fill in the rest of the ground area with C00.

Outline the Reindeer/Santa Mini Gnome with a BG000 Copic marker. Use a BG0000 Copic marker to color the sky. Use a BG000 Copic marker to add random large dots in the sky area.

Use a glue pen to add glue to the Reindeer/Santa Mini Gnome's pom-poms. Add Fun Flock to the wet glue, press the Fun Flock into the glue, then allow to drive for a few minutes. 

When dry, dump off the excess Fun Flock and use a clean paint brush to brush away any stray Flock. 

Use a clear Glitter Gel pen to add a line of glitter to the top of the ground area. You can add some glitter over the Reindeer/Santa Mini Gnome's shoes to simulate snow.

Adhere the image panel to a 6" x 3.5" piece of polka dot patterned paper.

Adhere that combination to a 6" square piece of "Night before Christmas" verbiage patterned paper. 

Trim the image panel/patterned paper combination to 5.75" square, edge with Speckled Egg Distress Ink, and adhere to a red 6x6 card.

You still have a little time to enter you card in the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Christmas in July Challenge #211  for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

#211 Christmas in july.

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Hi stampers and cardmakers.

Riet here.

Well, we're already heading towards the end of July.

But there are still a few days left to enter our challenge. 

So if you want to win new rubber stamps, join in. 

You can find the rules for the challenge here.

My last Christmas card of this month was made using 

the American Gothic Christmas stamp and the Sun and Stars border from Lost Coast Designs.

I colored the stamp in with my Van Gogh watercolors. 

I stamped the border with Hero Arts Unicorn White,

 and sprinkled it with white embossing powder.

This embossing powder contains a tiny bit of silver glitter.

That stands out beautifully against the black background.

So, basically a fairly simple card.

I hope to see you again on August 1st, 

when the new Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda challenge begins.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE!!!

Black and Gray Christmas

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Good morning, Cathy here with a Christmas card for you today.

🎄

Stamps Used:

Poky Cat

small snowflake set

I started out by cut a tag down. I then stamped the Poky Cat and colored it with copic markers. 

I then stamped a snowflake around the tag. 

Next, I added the tag to the gray snowflake paper I had for the base of the card.

Christmas card

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Good morning, Cathy here with a Christmas card for you.

Stamps Used:

Mini bird collage

small snowflake set

I started by blending the background with some red and green distress inks. I then stamped the Mini bird collage on it; I edged it with some drown oxide ink and added some clay snowflakes to it. 

I took on od the snowflakes from the set and stamped it on the drown oxide ink on the card base. I layered the stamped image on to some pattern paper then on to the card base.

Christmas In July Challenge 199

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share a Christmas card created for the Christmas in July Challenge 199 with Megan's Christmas Bird Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Use Memento ink to stamp Megan's Christmas Bird Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs onto the center of a white cardstock panel. 

Color the bird, branch, and Christmas lights with Copic markers. Use a fine-line green pen to color the light's wire. Add white highlights to the bulbs with a white gel pen and glittery highlights to the centers of the snowflakes with a clear glitter gel pen.

Position a square cutting die onto the image panel and secure with low-tack tape. Run the die/cardstock combination through your die-cut machine to cut the image panel. Keep the image panel square die-cut in the die by flipping the cardstock/die combination over and adding low-tack tape to cover the back of the die and connect the outside and inside of the image panel.

Flip the image panel/die-cut combo back over so that the image and die are facing upwards. Brush pearlescent blue ink over the die onto the image panel, going heavily around the edges. This will leave a white edge around the square.

Apply sparkly glitter glue onto the edges of the square and set aside to dry, preferably overnight so that you aren't tempted to touch the glue and make a mess.

Cut a 5¾" square of blue snowflake patterned paper, edge with a black marker, adhere the image panel die-cut, and apply the "Merry Christmas" rub-on as shown. Adhere the card front to a 6" square black card.

You still have a tiny bit of time to join Challenge 199 for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!