#203 Festive fun challenge.

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   Hello everyone, Riet here.

I'm so crazy about those cute Pokey animals from Lost Coast Designs.

They're so funny and cute.

Take the Pokey Mouse, for example, 

just look at that silly expression on his face, hahahaha so funny.

I also love how easy it is to change the stamp.

Here, for example, as Santa.

By drawing a line and buttons with a waterproof fineliner, 

you can easily give him a jacket.

Santa's toy bag is from a gnome stamp, Gnome Santa with Toys. 

This one is from the Mini Gnomes 2 sheet. 

Gnome Santa in chimney (Mini Gnomes 4) provided the Santa hat.

The jingle bells are from the Misc Words sheet.

The holly leaves and berries are from a stencil, 

CraftEmotions Mask Stencil X-mas Florals.

The background is made with Distress Oxide Broken China, Mowed Lawn, 

and Rustic Wilderness for the holly. 

I sprinkled the text and the berries with glitter.

I colored the mouse with Derwent Inktense.

Made the fur on the santa coat with Posca pen white.

This turned it into a lovely Christmas card.

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#199 Christmas in July challenge.

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Hi stampers, Riet here.

If you have a lot of cards to make for Christmas, this is a nice, quick card to make.

You can add some glitter or sequins yourself.

I used: 

LCD Mini gnome set 4.

LCD Party words.

CV Postcard background.

CV Christmas tree.

Color pencils or markers.

Black waterproof inkpad.

Versa Magic, Red magic,

Tea leaves and Sage.

Square or postage die.

I started with Versa Magic Tea Leaves, stamping the christmas tree.

Then the left half with the postcard background stamp and VM sage.

While the background dries, I stamped the little Santa gnome.

I colored him with Derwent Chromaflow pencils.

Using a blender brush, I colored the edges with VM Tea Leaves.

With the VM Red Magic I stamped Merry Christmas.

Mat the card with red and green,

 and stick the square with the Gnome on with 3D foam tape.

And your done.

Now, wasn't that a fun and quick card?

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Santa Gnome!

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HEY - It's Gnome-Vember

Darlene here with my make with one of the new Gnomes !

yep - a Santa one !  He is ssssoooo cute. 

So - Welcome to Gnome-vember

and lets have some fun !

What  I did is make a gift card holder card.

It's a standard size card.

Stamped the gnome onto a 2 inch circle of cardstock

layered onto some blue cardstock and stressed the edges

Layered the blue panel DSP onto silver cardstock

coloured in the Santa added some stickies on the hat and chimney

Added 3 layered snowflakes(blue and vellum) with bling in the middle

 

This card has side by side layer , left panel was cut at 2 1/2 inches

The remaining right side panel get taped or glued down around the edges

to make an envelope.

On the inside is where you can slide in your gift card.

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#187 Christmas in July challenge.

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Hi there cardmakers and stampers.

Riet here with a new tutorial for you.

Today is my last card for the Christmas in July challenge.

I'll tell you how I made it.

Materials:

LCD mouse stamp,

(Not yet in the webshop)

LCD Misc words.

Gnome santa in chimny (small)

Stencil Craftemotions 

xmas florals.

Blue/green bister.

Distressink,

Broken china,

Speckled egg,

Evergreen bough,

Twisted citron,

Barn door, for santa's hat.

White gellpen

Black fineliner

Stazon dove grey and Jet Black

Red glitter

Black inkpad.

Light grey marker.

Color pencils for the mouse.

Glue pen.

Lets start making the background.

I started with the 3 Distressinks

Broken china, Speckled egg and Evergreen bough,

I distributed the colors over the paper with sponges.

I sprayed it with plenty of water and blotted it with paper towel.

It lightened it up a bit.

Made it wet again and sprinkled some bister here and there.

Blot it again with the paper towel.

Now it looks like the photo, 

but when I turned the paper over I saw that the ink and bister had leaked through.

And it was beautiful too.

So I decided to make the back the front of the card.

But that is of course up to you to decide which side you like better.

Stamp the mouse with Stazon dove gray in the background and on a thin paper.

Also do this with the Santa hat.

Color the mouse and Santa hat on the loose paper.

Stamp the words around the mouse with black Stazon.

The Misk Words sheet contains a lot of words related to Christmas. 

So I stamped some of them on the card.

We now apply the holly leaves to the card with the stencil

 and the distress ink Evergreen bough and twisted citron and an ink blender.

Use the fineliner to scribble some lines around the words.

Color the mouse and Santa hat and glue them to the card.

Use the gray marker to create some shadows under the words and around the mouse.

I punch some holes of different sizes in a piece of mica sheet, 

I use this for the red berries.

I spunge it to the paper with distressink barn door.

Then I went over it with the glue pen and sprinkle it with the red glitter.

And that's it for this month's challenge.

There is still time to participate until the last day of July.

The winner will be announced on August 5.

Hope you'll join us and I wish you the goodluck.

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#180 In the deep mid winter.

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Hi, Riet here.

It's December so that's why it's a winter challenge.

Everything related to it is good for the challenge.

I chose these funny Christmas gnomes, really love them.

They come in two sizes.

For this shaker card I used the smaller ones.

And this is how I made the card:

What I used:

LCD stamps

Gnome Santa with toys

Reindeer gnome

Gnome santa in chimney

Checkerboard rustic border

Party words.

Distressink:

Barn door

Memento tuxedo black

Small snowflake punch

Punch for white small cirkels that looks like snow 

White acrylic paint

White posca marker

Markers or pencils to color the gnomes.

Foam tape

Mica sheet

Window and frame die.

I started by coloring and cutting out the gnomes.

With the Distressink Barn door and Rustic wilderness I made 6 prints on my worksheet.

Spray some water on it and place your paper on top.

Don't wipe, just give it some time to absorb the ink.

Once the paper is completely dry, we will splash with white acrylic paint.

While the background is drying we continue with the frame.

We stamp the frame with Distress ink Rustic wilderness and the checkerd border stamp.

On the bottom of the frame we stamp the text "Merry Christmas" with Memento black.

I cut some silver snowflakes with the punch.

And some dots in 3 sizes from white paper.

That is the filling for the shaker element.

I glue the red/green background onto a piece of paper.

Glue the checker board frame around it.

Now stick the foam tape on the back

and stick it on a white card.

Now glue the mica sheet that you first cut to size on the inside of the window frame.

Place foam tape around the frame.

Now place the shaker elements on the background and stick the window frame on the background.

Use the posca pen to put some white dots on the text.

Now we glue the gnomes to the windows.

The card is ready.

I hope you like it.

I'd love to see what you make of it.

So post it on the challenge blog or on the Facebook group.

Then you have a chance to win new stamps.

May Your Christmas Sparkle

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 and a very Merry Christmas! Are you on Santa's naughty or nice list?? I hope that he's visited, and that you've put a carrot out for Rudolph.  It's Sue here with my sparkly Christmas card for our Gnomes challenge.

I started by making my base. This is one piece of 12x12 card with the different coloured dots on either side.

And these are some of our fab new gnomes (though gnomes aren't just for Christmas!) I cut my Santa gnome twice as I wanted to layer him up.

Here he is, coming down the gnomey mushroom chimney

And all layered up and glittery.

Well would you believe it, the card fits perfectly into the envelope that I made last time lol.

For the card, I've used

Gnome Sleeping

Gnome Santa in Chimney

Mushroom House

and for the envelope

Mail Art

Christmas Lights (Carmen's Veranda)

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year from myself and all of my teamies. Take care, and have a wonderful day! xx