From Our Gnome to Yours at Christmas.

Hello there,

Christmas will soon be here, I just don't know where this year has gone, it has certainly flown by lol!      Today I would like to share my last Christmas card of 2017 and this was made for our very special Grandson.   I made this card using a fabulous, fun set of die and stamps which were given free with a recent craft magazine.   I just love these two little characters and their 'Gnome Home' lol!   so cute!

   
Matt a piece of red card onto a square white base card, leaving a quarter inch border of the white card showing.

Take a square of white card and colour the top one third with the stormy sky and milled lavender Distress inks adding some white pen dots for the snow, then matt this onto the red card.

   
Take a piece of white card and stamp the toadstool house onto it, using a black ink pad.   Colour this with Promarker alcohol pens and glue to the background matt.

Tear four pieces of white card along the top edges,   keeping the sides and bottom edges straight cut, decide where you want your snowdrifts, then stamp 'With Love at Christmas'   onto the snowdrift  which will then be glued to the bottom right,

Glue these to the sides and bottom of the base card, adding some silicone glue or sticky foam pads behind the top edges of each snowdrift, to raise the edges up to look like snowdrifts.
Next stamp the North Pole sign onto white card using a black ink pad and colour with a brown Promarker pen.   Cut this out and glue behind one of the snowdrifts, on the right  hand side of the card, adding some silicone glue behind the sign.

  
Stamp the two gnomes onto some white card  using a black ink pad,  colour with Promarkers,  pens and cut out leaving a small white border around the outside.

  
Stamp two bobbles using a black ink pad, cut out and glue to the Gnomes hats, using silicone glue.   Stamp the nose and beard of each gnome in black and colour, cut them out,  then glue to the original images.

   
Stamp the nose of each gnome again, colour, cut out and glue to the original noses.
 

 

Stamp the hand and  lamp of one gnome and the hands and present of the other, colour and cut out then  glue to the original images.   Fix the gnomes to the left-hand side of the card.

Glue some Imagination Craft's Cracked ice to the snowdrifts, North Pole sign and the toadstool house roof.   I used Imagination Craft's Magi-bond glue to stick the cracked ice to, works a treat! a good strong glue which dries clear.

      
Using a black ink pad, stamp 'From Our Gnome to Yours' onto a piece of white card, trim and fix to
the top left of the base card.

Well there we have it my crafty friends, all finished, hope you like it.

Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Happy 2018.   Have fun.

                                                                     Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs    Jennifer xx.