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.

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Naughty or Nice (or Psycho)?

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here with a slightly demented Christmas card created for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Christmas in July Challenge #211 with the Alfred Hitchcock Standing Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda and Mini Gnome Santa with Toys from the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Sheet by Lost Coast Stamps.

Here it is!

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp both the Alfred Hitchcock Standing image and Mini Gnome Santa with Toys from the Mini Gnomes 2 image onto white Copic-friendly cardstock.

Fussy-cut both images, but cut the Santa hat off of the gnome's head. Use Copic markers to color both images, then outline them with a black marker. Add wet glue to the brim and pom-pom on the Santa hat, add Cotton Ball White Fun Flock, gently press the Fun Flock, and allow it to dry. Once it's dry, brush off the excess flock.

Adhere the Santa hat to Alfred's head then set Santa Alfred aside while you create a background panel for him.

Trim a piece of winter-themed patterned paper to 5.25" x 6". Use Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks to edge it. 

Cut a piece of white cardstock to 5.25" x 6.75" Add Film Strip Washi Tape to the base of the white cardstock. Adhere the winter-themed patterned paper just above the Washi Tape to create the background panel. Trim the patterned paper/Washi combo to 4 5/8" x 6 5/8". Edge the background panel with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks.

Cut a piece of red textured cardstock to 4.75" x 6.75" and use to mat the background panel.

Use "Naughty or Nice" die to cut red textured cardstock. Use an arrow die to cut red textured  cardstock twice.

Adhere Santa Alfred to the background panel as shown. Adhere the "Naughty or Nice" sentiment die-cut to the upper left. 

Measure the arrow die-cuts. Adhere the "be good for goodness sake" sticker an arrow's width from the left side. Adhere both arrow die-cuts as shown with the arrows' points overlapping the sentiment sticker.

Adhere the background panel to a a taupe-y brown 5" x 7" card.

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Love You to the Moon and Back

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share a card created with one of the Gnomes from the Mini Gnomes Rubber Stamp Set 2 by Lost Coast Designs.

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the gnome from the Mini Gnomes Rubber Stamp Set 2 twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.

Use Copic markers to color the gnome.

Fussy-cut the sticker paper gnome and place the cut-out over its counterpart as a mask. 

Use a die to cut the image panel. Use the next largest die to cut white cardstock.

Cut repositionable sticker paper with a crescent moon die and place it on the upper left corner of the image panel die-cut.

Place an acetate mask over the bottom portion of the image panel die-cut right above the gnome's feet and secure it in place with low-tack tape or magnets.

Sponge or brush two colors of blue dye ink over the image panel die cut to create a night sky.

With the acetate mask still in place, position a star stencil over the image panel die-cut and secure with low-tack tape or magnets.

Sponge white pigment (or hybrid) ink over the stencil to add the stars to the background. Remove the stencil and the mask then heat-set the image panel die-cut.

Trace the mask onto a piece of cardstock or thin packaging and fussy-cut along the trace line to create a handmade mask. Place the upper part of the handmade mask on the horizon line of the die-cut image panel. 

Sponge or brush two colors of green dye ink over the handmade mask to create a grassy area. Tear a piece of cardstock, then sponge the darker green over the top of the torn part to add detail and shading to the grass.

Remove the masks from the moon and the gnome, then adhere the image panel die-cut to the white die-cut.

Create a card that is .25" larger than the matted image panel from navy cardstock.

Adhere a sentiment sticker to the card as shown to complete the card.

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#208 Gnomes challenge, ATC's with the mini gnomes.

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Hi, its Riet here.

        

The Lost Coast Designs/Carmens Veranda Stamps challenge is so much fun. 

LCD has such cute mini gnome sets. 

These are very suitable for ATC cards.

For these ATC cards, I used:

LCD Mini gnomes 2,

 Mini gnomes 3, 

Mini gnomes 5.

LCD grunge tree, 

LCD Misc words.

CV jukebox, 

CV tulip.

Derwent inktense pencils.

Black water resistent ink, I used Versafine onyx black.

White gellpen.

Posca pen pink, lilac and white for the blossem.

Silver marker for the metal accents on the jukebox.

Masking tape.

How to make the ATC cards.

1. Stamp the flower gnome and mask it.

2. Stamp the middle tulip and mask it.

3. Stamp the other tulips.

Color with Derwent Inktense.

The background is also colored with the inktense pencils.

Stamp "For you" with black ink.

Give it some accents with the white gellpen.

The jukebox ATC is done in the same way.

Only the metall accent ar done with the silver marker.

For the sleeping gnome its the same.

Make blossem with the Posca markers.

If you want to participate in the challenge, here is the link.

There is, of course, a prize to be won.

If you want to know everything about it, you can read the rules here.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE:

Festive Fun Challenge 203 - a Merry & Bright Gnome Card

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share a card created for November's Festive Fun Challenge 203 with three of the adorable gnomes from the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Sheet!

Using a stamping platform and Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, the gnomes were stamped onto a white cardstock panel and onto repositionable sticker paper. 

The sticker paper versions were fussy-cut and placed over their counterparts on the image panel as masks.

Removable Scotch Tape was placed horizontally across the image panel. Two colors of Distress Ink were sponged over the tape and the masked images to add color to the background.

Grey dye ink was sponged over a music stencil, the tape, and the masked gnomes to add visual and thematic interest to the background.

The removable tape was removed and a piece of acetate was placed over the top part of the image panel to protect it. The grey dye ink was sponged over the tape to ground the gnomes. 

The masks were removed from the gnomes which were then colored with Copic markers. I was not happy with the color of the ground, so I used Copic markers over the dye ink to change the color and to add shadows.

The image panel was trimmed and edged with a grey Copic marker. It was then matted with red cardstock cut .25" larger.

Patterned paper was trimmed to 5.25" x 4", edged with a grey marker, and adhered to a red A2 card.

Red cardstock was cut a sentiment banner cutting die and adhered as shown. White cardstock was colored with green Copic markers then cut with a tiny bow cutting die. The green bows were adhered to the card as a finishing touch.

You still have more than a week to play along with us for November's Festive Fun Challenge 203 for the chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Cash.

Challenge 199 - Christmas in July

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Greetings! It's Kathi here with a Christmas card for the Christmas in July challenge 199. The card was created with one of the Santa Gnomes from the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs.

Santa Gnome with Gift Sack was stamped with Memento ink, fussy-cut, and edged with a black marker.

I was debating whether to place him in front of a house or on top of a chimney. Obviously the chimney scenario won. Then the scene took on a life of its own. I traced a chipboard house onto white cardstock, fussy-cut the house, colored it with dye inks, then detailed the bricks and siding on the house.

The windows and door were die-cut from white cardstock. The window frames were left white, but the panes were colored with Copic markers and inlaid. The door and panels were colored with Copic markers, inlaid, then matted onto white cardstock to become a frame. 

White cardstock was die-cut with some corner border dies, detailed with a clear glitter gel pen and layered in back and in front of the house on a white speckled navy cardstock panel. Two shades of green cardstock were cut with a fir tree cutting die and added to the scene.

The "naughty or nice?" sentiment and the snowflakes are from an ancient QuicKutz Rub-on set (circa 2005). The sentiment was added to a white speech bubble die-cut. The snowflakes were added to the scene. Apparently I decided that more was more.

I adhered the card front to a red 5" x 7" card and called it done.

You should definitely join the Christmas in July Challenge 199 for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

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Cold and Frosty Gnome Christmas Card

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here with a Christmas card created with the Looking Up Gnome from the Mini Gnomes 2 Unmounted Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs. In the first panel our hero Gnome is enjoying nice weather, but dreaming of a white Christmas. In the second panel, his wish came a bit too true for him.

Here's the card. 

I used .25" wide washi tape to tape around the edges of a 5.25" x 4" panel and down the center to create two panels.

Tuxedo Black Memento was used to stamp the looking up gnome from the Mini Gnomes 2 Unmounted Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs in the right panel. I scooted the taped panel over to the right and stamped him again onto the left panel. Both gnomes were colored with Copic markers. 

The Gnome was stamped two more times onto repositionable sticker paper, which was fussy-cut and placed over both gnomes as a mask. 

An acetate mask was placed over the bottom part of both panels. Desert Sand Memento Ink and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink were lightly brushed over the stalks and caps of a mushroom cluster part of the Mini Whimsical Shrooms stencil onto the image panel and onto repositionable sticker paper.

The sticker paper versions were fussy-cut and placed over the mushrooms to mask them. Tumbled Glass Distress Ink was sponged over the masked mushrooms, the masked Gnomes, and over the acetate mask on the bottom of the panel. 

Bundled Sage Distress Ink was brushed over the fern cluster from the same stencil onto the image panel.

The acetate mask was lifted and Desert Sand Memento Ink was brushed over the bottom part of the image panel.

The masks were removed from the mushrooms and gnomes. The mushrooms were colored with Copic markers. The left panel was covered and flat white and shimmery white Pan Pastel was brushed over the right panel. When the Gnome was obscured, a white Posca Paint pen was used to add white splatter and more intentional snow covering to the panel. When the Posca paint was dry, a clear glitter pen was used to add touches of sparkle to the snow.

The washi tape was removed from the image panel.

A piece of translucent vellum was backed with double-sided tape, then cut with a speech bubble cutting die and the dots from other speech bubble dies. Christmas-time Remnant Rubs were used to add the "Dreaming of a White Christmas" to one of the speech bubbles. Jet Black StazOn Ink was sponged through the "Seriously?" Stencil onto the other speech bubble. 

Both vellum sentiment speech bubbles and the vellum dots were adhered to their respective panels. White Posca pen was added to the "Seriously?" Speech bubble to reinforce the snow-mageddon theme.

A piece of 5.5" x 4.25" patterned paper was adhered to an A2 card then edged with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. The image panel was adhered to finish the card.

I hope to see you playing along with December Cold and Frosty Challenge. 

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