PP618 CAS Gnome Christmas

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's time for a new challenge from the Paper Players, and Joanne is our sweet hostess with a great CLEAN AND SIMPLE theme that is sure to get everyone in a holiday card-making mood!  Here we go:

I had lots of ideas swirling around in my head for this challenge, since I have thousands of Christmas stamps, but there were a couple of fun challenges out in blogland that I thought would work with CAS creation....so here we go:

I saved this cute little gnome set from two years ago called Gnome for the Holiday and stamped them on some Thick Basic White cardstock.  I also stamped and cut two masks, then layered them over my little gnomes and stamped the treehouse in the background.  After watercoloring them in, I added the sentiment, some starry sequins, and rounded the corners for just a wee bit of interest:

There's also some Wink of Stella going on, but of course, you can't see it in the photo!  But it does make it sparkle and shine!  So the TGIF challenge this week is gnomes, and the Jingle Belles want us to make a card using their banner as an inspiration, and the Color Hues challenge is scarlet and green!  

I hope you'll be able to play along with our challenge this week....just remember to keep it clean and simple!  It's hard sometimes to not add layers and doodads, but you can do it!  Stamps, ink and paper---the basics---are all you need!  Check out what the other designers did at the Paper Players and get some inspiration there! Thanks for popping in, enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gnome for the Holidays (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White
Ink	Versafine Black, Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Sahara Sand, Flirty Flamingo, Petal Pink, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso
Accessories	Star Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)
Tools	Aquapainter, Corner Rounder Punch (ret), White Gel Pen, Wink of Stella

Another Purple Card!

Hello peeps, and happy Saturday!  I have another purple card...can you believe it?  This is actually the first card I made for yesterday's As You See It challenge, but I ended up in going in a different direction!  But it was still kind of cute, so I decided to share it with you today.  It also uses the colors from CAS Colours and Sketches challenge; my card isn't exactly CAS, but I'll share it anyway.  Here are the colors:

And here we go:

I began by making a "quilt" of two gingham DSPs, using my Stitched Triangle dies and a Basic Gray square as a base.  I stamped one of the gnomes and his little tree home from Gnome for the Holidays in Basic Gray ink and watercolored them in, then fussy-cut them out and mounted them on the quilt:

The sentiment from Many Mates was stamped and heat-embossed in white, then diecut and popped up. I also added a ribbon, a tiny tag from a long-retired set and some Pinewood Planks embossing on the background!  I think this would make a cute birthday card, so it's going in my stash for the next one that comes up!  Thanks for popping in today!

We have so many trees around our property, it would be impossible to rake all the leaves that fall, but we do try to rake up the ones on the front yard so they don't kill our grass.  After blowing them into a looong pile, John brought the tractor and wagon over for me to load up.  

Cassidy used to like to jump into the piles, but my other "child" made up for it:

He's just a big kid at heart!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gnome for the Holidays, Many Mates, Tiny Tags (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Shimmery White, Basic Gray, Blackberry Bliss and Purple Posy Gingham DSP (ret)
Ink	Basic Gray, Purple Posy, Blackberry Bliss, Gray Granite, Petal Pink
Accessories	Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Tasteful Label Dies, Tiny Tag Punch (ret), Aquapainter, Heat Tool, Pinewood Planks EF

TTTC90 Gnome Tissue Holder

Hello again, stampers!  It's time for a new Tic Tac Toe challenge with Team X as on deck!  This board just happened to coincide with one of the projects that my stamp clubs made earlier in the week, so I thought I'd share it.  Here's the board; I chose Blue, Holiday and Sparkle/Shine, but I also have Plaid in there too!

And here we go:

This is an easy little tissue holder to keep in your purse or desk; it can be decorated for any season, but of course with this little gnome, he's for Christmas!!!  I will give the measurements below, it's as easy as pie!  The box itself is Seaside Spray and the gnome is from Gnome for the Holidays.  He's stamped in Memento ink and colored with Blends:

You can't see it here, but his beard and hat have been glittered up with some Wink of Stella!!  The sentiment on the front is from Itty Bitty Greetings, diecut with a little die from Smooth Sailing.  And if the girls wanted to give their little tissue holders away, they could add this to the back from Little Treats:

Such a cute little project!  Here are the measurements and quick directions:

1. Cut cardstock to 6 ¾” x 5 ¼”
2. Score on the longest side at 1”, 3 1/8”, 4 1/8” and 6 ¼”.
3. Score on the shortest side at 1”.
4. Fold and burnish all score lines.
5. Cut out the smallest rectangle at the bottom corner.
6. Cut v-shaped slits along the bottom, straddling the score lines, up to the horizontal score line.
7. Decorate your box whatever way you want.  (Easier to do before adhering and assembling the box!)
8. Apply Tear 'n Tape to the narrowest side piece and adhere box together.
9. Fold in bottom pieces and adhere, making sure box is straight and even.
10. Punch out a half-circle with circle punch at the front and slide in your tissues.

I hope you'll play along with our Tic Tac Toe board this week....LOTS of fun possibilities!  Share your creation with us at the TTT blog and check out the other amazing samples by the DT while you're there!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Ridiculously Awesome (star), Gnome for the Holidays, Itty Bitty Greetings, Little Treats
Card stock & Papers	Seaside Spray, Whisper White, Real Red DSP, Red Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Seaside Spray, Real Red, Memento Black
Accessories	Tear 'n Tape
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Smooth Sailing Dies, 1" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Blends, Wink of Stella Pen, Small Star Punch (ret)

FMS459 Christmas Gnome

 Happy Friday peeps!  Boy, is it raining where you are?  RAIN RAIN RAIN, all day long!  I feel like a mushroom!  Well, I did hunker down in my stamp room yesterday and created a couple cards; the one I'm sharing today is for the FMS sketch:

I had used a sketch very similar to this at my last club but I loved how Linda used the Stitched Triangle Dies for her card, so I thought I would give that a go, using my new Classic Christmas papers in Sahara Sand and one of those darling gnomes from Gnome for the Holidays!  So here we go:

I thought I'd try my hand at stamping my gnome in Sahara Sand, then coloring him with Blends, and it worked pretty well!  You can't see it, but his bell and hat are liberally adorned with Wink of Stella!  He looked a little lost just perched upon the DSP, so I punched out a little oval of glimmer paper so he had something to stand on!  I added a mat of Real Red and stamped the sentiment from the same set:

He was a little time-consuming to cut out but the rest of the card was so easy, it went together in a jiffy!

Here are a few more jack-o-lantern pix!

Drawing the face:

Yikes!  She is scaring me with that knife!

Wayne brings in the artillery....a power drill!  Stay tuned tomorrow to see the final results!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gnome for the Holidays
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Classic Christmas DSP, Sparkle Glimmer Paper
Ink	Sahara Sand, Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Triangle Dies, Blends, Wink of Stella

Gnomie Halloween

Happy Monday!!  My card today was so fun to create, and it was a CASE of this card by Denita Wright-Smee, and I fell in love with it!  So here we go:

I wasn't going to get the Gnome for the Holidays set, but it seemed like a cute set to color in so I did, and I'm glad!  I colored this wee little gnome with some Halloween colors and added a tiny pumpkin from the Trio of Tags die, backed with some golden glimmer paper!  I wanted to add a little more depth to the Woodland embossing, so after embossing a piece of Basic Black with my folder, I sponged on some Craft White ink, highlighting the trees.  I added a little path with some Smoky Slate cardstock, cut with the hill die from In the Woods and stamped the circles and shadow from Life is Beautiful:

I added a crescent moon from the same gold glimmer paper:

And I added the second pumpkin to the top of one of the tags from Tags Tags Tags for the inside sentiment, along with a sentiment from Banner Year:

This card makes me smile, and I had fun making it!  And because it's a wee bit spooky, I am squeaking it in to the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge:

Thanks for visiting today!

The family went to Hershey Park this weekend--the Sweetest Place on Earth! Cassidy took her karate  friend Avery, who is a daredevil and loves roller coasters!  Cassidy.....not so much, so Avery went with Wayne!  But they all had a blast!

Of course this picture cracks me up....Dana is not a fan of roller coasters either!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gnome for the Holidays, Tags Tags Tags, Banner Year, Life is Beautiful
Card stock & Papers	Smoky Slate, Whisper White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Gold Glimmer Paper (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate, Gray Granite, Craft White
Accessories	Black Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Trio of Tags Dies, In The Woods Dies, Blends, Woodland Embossing Folder, Sponge Daubers, Verve Star Die