Hanging with my Gnomies
I have a bit of a soft spot for garden gnomes - not always the most fashionable garden accessory but I love anything with a hint of kitsch. So I have just about all the previous gnome releases we've had to date so I had to add the new ones from MFT to my collection, especially the Gnome Place Like Home die as I love piecing those kind of dies together like a jigsaw to build up the whole "image".
For my first couple of cards though I started with the Hanging With My Gnomies stamp as I wanted a couple of cards to send to people with stressful things going on in their lives.
I stamped my gnome directly to my base card and then masked him out with a post-it and used the MFT Square Extraordinary Stencil to ink blend a simple background separating the green a blue with a few flicks of a pencil. I then coloured the gnome with pencils and finished with a sentiment from a Stamping Bella stamp (sorry it's out of stock - there are plenty of great sentiments with the gnomes but like I said I needed one about not worrying for my cards)
My second card is almost exactly the same, I just decided to add more elements from the stamp set (with more masking) before I did the ink blended background. Remember when masking scenes - start with the thing that will be in the foreground, mask it and then work backwards.
Coloured with pencils again but on a darker base card which gives a different feel even though the colours used were very similar. I do adore that little lady bug! (there are often fabulous little tiny stamps in big sets so do make sure you don't overlook them)
Now I wanted to play with the houses! I die cut all the pieces from coloured card in a couple of colour schemes (cream and red; peach and purple) and then spent a fun hour pieceing them together and adding some shading. I do think we forget about colouring die cuts - just think of them as 3d stamps and shade as you would if they were stamped images. These are such a cute size when put together - I made one into a gift tag.
For my final die cut I made a card, pairing it with a gnome and a tiny fairy, using the MFT frames again but this time just to draw a frame line.
The gnome this time comes from a Sugar Pea Christmas Set - Gnome for Christmas as I wanted my gnome to be sharing a coffee - we're doing a lot of vritual coffee meetings right now!
I lightly drew around the stencil edge to work out my placements, stamped my gnome, sentiment and fairy so they would deliberately break the border and then coloured them with pencils. Once done I rubbed out the pencil frame and drew around the stencil again with a gel pen. Adding my house to finish the scene. I also changed the sentiment - I wanted it from "our" house not "my" house - so I just selectively stamped the bits I wanted making "our" from the "ou" in "to gnome yOU" and the "r" from the then of "my world is betteR" That might be too much faff for you - but I often mess around to twist sentiments to my will!
The little fairy come from Lawn Fawn's A Little Sparkle and is another one of those tiny but every so useful little stamps!
NEWS FROM THE STORE
I got some Waffle Flower products on Friday and have sorted them out this weekend. I will get them in store as soon as I can around packing orders and all the other essential admin this week. I have the paper pads and the lastest stamps and die as well as mini media mat restocks.
At this stage I am not expecting anything else to ship this week but that may change.
Thanks
Tara x
17/05/2020
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Tags: Lawn Fawn, My Favorite Things, Sguar Pea Designs
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