Guest ELF at Christmas Kick-Start Challenge

 Hi Everyone, I was delighted and thrilled to be asked by Jo, to be Guest Elf for October at the Christmas Kick-Start Challenge #91

 We discussed what theme to work on, and both agreed very quickly, it was to be a colour theme, with the lovely mix of colours below.

 

 

As soon as I saw the colours, a Gnome came into my head, WHAAT? I hear you say, yes I have a strange thought pattern as many of you know.  Anyhow, I found my loved Gnome and stamped him, and his present. Both were die cut and then coloured. The hands and present were 3D'd onto the body.

 

Next it was the background, I blended the sky, and blended the snow. It was then I stamped the church and trees, I wanted that far away look, so they were also stamped in the blues I had used for the snow. The background was cut to size and layered onto navy card. I then stamped the sentiment, again in blue. My lovely Gnome was 3D'd in the middle of the card, for his hat to emphasise the church. 

I felt it needed some sparkle so added Stickles Frosted Lace along the snow, trees, and church.

 

Gnome - Apple Blossom stamps magazine freebie SCP #181

church and tree stamps - magazine freebie SCP #211

large tree - Chocolate Baroque

inks - Distress inks - mustard seed, spiced marmalade, ripe persimmon, stormy sky, weathered wood, broken china, faded jeans, candied apple

navy card - stash

I hope you join in and start, or even continue, your Christmas cards with us.

A great prize of Avery Elle stamps, is in the offing 

Christmas Gnome WLSC

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month we would love to see all sorts of Christmas Characters, from Gnomes to Robins, Santa to Angels, and so many more familiar to us at this time of year.

 

I don't have many Christmas Characters in my stamps, but I do have this Gnome and I love him. He has a home too. I stamped the Gnome, then masked him and added his home, I masked that too and added the trees. They were coloured with DI's with some grey squiggles for snow shadows. 

After some thinking that it was too CAS, I decided to do a faraway scene, by stamping the trees and adding a few white highlights to the trees, and colouring the sky. I made a mess of the part, where I added the fading sun. So added a circle, after I had coloured it and stamped the top of the tree onto it. Only then did I die cut the images. I then layered it onto a die cut burgundy colour paper, to make it all as "warm" as the sentiment, then added it all to the base card. I then decided it needed a little sparkle with a snow writer.

gnome & house - Apple Blossom Stamps, a magazine freebie

all trees and sentiment - magazine freebies 

inks - Distress Inks, many colours

glitter dimensional snow writer - DecorArt 

dies - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

burgundy paper - Lidl

 

These are the wonderful prizes this month.

 Three prizes, two dies from Sizzix and stamp from Craft Stash 

 

Don't forget, we will now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.