Welcome back to the bi-weekly Cardz 4 Guyz challenge. Our host for #337, Dawn, chose elves or gnomes for the theme. When you finish here, I hope you will visit the challenge site to see what the rest of the design team created. We’d love for you to play along with us and post your projects in the gallery.
My husband loved the Kindest Gnomes stamp and die set from last year, so I couldn’t sell it. The gnome I used is his favorite.
Here’s my card:
I found a video tutorial a couple of weeks ago from Rachel Tessman of stamp your art out with Rachel. I watched the whole video first and absolutely fell in love with her cards!! Once I started, I just kept going and created 10 of the 16 cards I need for friends at work in one night. I’ve just kept making these cards because it’s just such an easy fun fold. This card makes such an impact and is just stamping, trimming, and scoring. You can see my previous post using this fold here.
How to Make this Card:
I used Calypso Coral for the base. Trim a piece of cardstock to 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches, and score at 4-1/4 inches.
On the front side, cut off 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 inches. I cut off 1-1/2 inches.
The additional flap measures 4-1/4 by 4-1/4 inches. Score at 1 inch.
Adhere the 1 inch part of the flap to the back of the base on the inside.
The white cardstock for the inside measures 4 by 5-1/4 inches.
The gnome DSP (designer series paper) for the front of the card measures 5-3/8 by 2-5/8 inches.
The DSP for the inside of the flap and the outside of the flap each measure 3-1/8 by 4-1/8 inches.
Next, I trimmed a piece of DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap. Then, punch a 1-inch circle from coordinating DSP for the envelope seal and ran iit through my XYRON create-a-sticker.
I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere all the cardstock and DSP.
I colored the gnome using the Calypso Coral, light natural tones, and Smoky Slate blends combos to color the gnome.
I cropped the sentiment banner using a Deckled Rectangle die.
I needed a third element on the front. Therefore, I used one of the retired snowflakes and used a blending brush with Calypso Coral ink to color it.
The snowflake is adhered using multipurpose liquid glue.
Please visit Rachel Tessman’s video for a step-by-step tutorial. Then, try this fold yourself. I still need about 30 Christmas cards, and I hope to use this fold for the majority of them. I already have all the pieces cut for three more. Truly, easy-peasy if you can trim, score, and stamp.
Welcome to InKing Royalty’s Blog Hop! We have created wintry projects to share with you today – snow, sleds and mittens are sure to be found in our lineup. We are excited to share our creations and hope you love them! After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next person on the list at the base of this post.
I’ve made and posted a dancing gnomes card before, and you can see that post here.
For this blog, I used the Sun Prints DSP because the gnomes DSP (designer series paper) is out of stock. However, the gnomes dies are still available because they coordinate with a new gnomes stamp set coming up in the mini-catalog that starts in January.
Here’s my first dancing gnomes card:
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The first bottom picture shows how the bottom of the gnome moves. It does swing freely, if you are careful to not let the mechanism underneath get caught on the rest of the gnome.
Once I got started with this guy, I felt like I needed to make more. Here are those cards:
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I stumbled across this dancing gnomes video from Susan Campfield and found out how easy it really is to create this adorable gnomes. You can find her video here. Believe me, her video makes more sense than anything I could write.
Measurements:
All of these measurements come from the Sun Prints DSP card.
The Starry Sky base measures 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
The white cardstock mat measures 5-3/8 by 4-1/8 inches.
I used the largest deckled rectangle die for the Sun Prints DSP.
Next, I cropped white cardstock using a smaller deckled die.
I used two of the DSP patterns to crop the hat and the bottom of the body of the gnome.
The beard and the three pieces for the nose and two hands were cropped from white cardstock.
The white cardstock for the inside of the card measures 5-1/4 inches by 4 inches. I used Starry Sky ink and one of the Framed and Festive sentiments for the inside of the card.
I trimmed another pattern from the Sun Prints DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap.
Putting the Card Together:
I used the SU1000 natural blend to color the nose and hands.
I used the black blunt end of a black marker to outline the hat and the ties on the feet.
I trimmed a strip of DSP to 1/2 by 1-1/4 inches and then trimmed it in half to create arms. After I trimmed them, I slightly rounded the corners so they wouldn’t be blocky arms.
HINT: When adding the arms, make sure they don’t rub up against the mechanism that allows the gnome legs to swing. I found that if I trimmed the “shoulders” then glued the arms under where the hat attaches, I could minimize the interference.
I cropped the panel behind the gnome from white cardstock. Then, I used a blending brush and Starry Sky ink to color the white cardstock. Then, I attached the gnome using dimensionals.
HINT: Only put one dimensional under the hat and one under each hand. Any more dimensionals will interfere with the swinging legs.
I used some multipurpose liquid glue to adhere a wonderful snowflake to the DSP on the top.
Next, I trimmed another snowflake so that it peeks out from under the bottom of the blended panel.
Before I attached the gnome panel, I wound a combination of the silver mesh and Starry Sky metallic ribbon around the DSP and tied it in a bow.
Then, I added dimensionals to the blended panel and adhered it to the front of the DSP.
I used multipurpose liquid adhesive to attached the DSP to the white cardstock, and the cardstock to the front of the card.
Finally, I trimmed the DSP for the envelope flap, and punched a 1-inch circle for the envelope seal. With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal.
Back to the InKing Royalty’s Blog Hop:
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Candy Ford at Stamp Candy.
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Welcome to Just Peachy Stamping by Sue Jackson: an independent Stampin' Up demonstrator.
Through Stampin' Up!, I happily share my love of papercrafting through sales, classes, small stamping group meet-ups and workshops. I think that being a teacher in my "real life", I have a unique approach to sharing my fantastic hobby. I look forward to connecting with you!
