Gnome For Christmas

Hello Nomad friends.  Lots of gnomes and Christmas here this month with Lost Coast Designs wanting anything Gnome related and Me also elfing out at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge with all things Hat.   I've gone shaped card and simple and Christmas with mini Pompom Gnome and his Mushroom House.

I do like this Kort og Godt wiggly circle die and it's a nice big layered set so great for fun card bases.  I found a bit of card already smooched with distress ink that seemed a perfect scrap background for my green and gold 'shroom house.  The house and the gnome were both stamped on white card scraps, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.   To finish I stamped the Happy Christmas directly on the background.

 

 

 

Hope you get some time to get gnomey and/or hatty.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity, and all month to share your hatty Christmas cards at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge!!  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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52 Weeks to Christmas Challenge - Paddenstoelen
Build Your Holiday Stash Cardmakers - Spring into Christmas 2026 Linky
ABC Christmas Challenge - H is for Hat
The Outlawz Christmas Challenge - April
The Outlawz Challenges April Linky

In Perspective

Hello Nomad friends.  Today I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity with more Gnome fun.

I made a tag using Lost Coast Designs Coffee Gnome, ATC Perspective and Pieces of Calligraphy with Carmen's Veranda Coffee Vs Challenges sentiment.

 I started with a piece of card that had a ray pattern on it and cut it with Daisy Mae tag die.  Then I smeared the edges with yellow archival ink and stamped some of the Pieces of Calligraphy stamps with the same ink to add some texture.  I stamped the ATC Perspective with brown archival ink and the sentiment with black archival ink. I stamped Coffee Gnome on white card, coloured with distress markers, fussy cut and added him to the tag.  I found some curious bobbly lace for my tag tie.

Hope you like my gnomey tag.  You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES!!  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project and we need at least 20 entries to award the prize. 

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Not a Card
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Food and/or Drink 
Allsorts Challenge 846 - Springtime opt AG 
Tag Along and ATC Challenge - Blossoms, Birds, Butterflies opt AG
Paper Funday Challenge 86 - Anything Goes opt Die Cuts/Punches 

 

Brimming With Style

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the first Tuesday of the month, and what a glorious day it is today.  It is also time for the start of the April Christmas Kickstart Challenge and this month the theme is Brimming With Style.  Sorry, no drinks involved LOL.  We want to see HATS on your Christmas card creations.  Hats on Santa, hats on gnomes, hats on cats, hats on bats.....  OK, maybe not too many Christmas bats, but you never know.   I am very honoured to have been asked to Elf-out this month, so here's my inspiration to help get you started.  I went with a hatted bear in a Christmas tree forest. 

Isn't he rather adorable!!  I used Creative Expressions Wrapped Up stamp set, which I actually won at Christmas Kickstart Challenge many moons ago.  About time I stamped it out.  I started with a piece of Marianne Designs woodgrain paper, which, like many of my genius design ideas, was handily lying on my desk.  Looks wintery me thinks.  I stamped the sentiment, then the trees, and gave them a bit of scribbly distress marker colour.  I stamped the bear on a piece of white card, coloured and fussy cut.  Doesn't he look grand and happy in his little forest.  I added some glitter to the base of the trees and the stars cos glitter is always in fashion.

 Jo gave me my own special hat to elf-out in!!  Fabulous.  Love the built in ears.  Off to the shops soon.

  

I hope you get time to make a card or two, if Christmas is your thing, and if you happen to be stamping gnomes the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity would also love to see them.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

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Word Art Wednesday Weeks 746-747
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Paper Funday Challenge 86 - Anything Goes opt Die Cuts/Punches
The Outlawz Christmas Challenge - April
The Outlawz Challenges April Linky

Musical Musings

Hello Nomad friends.  2nd of the month and time for the Card Chain Challenge Reveal.  Make a card, send a card.  Everyone gets a card, everyone is a winner!!  Genius concept!!

My card went to Linda in Minnesota this month.   One of the options was gnomes, which coincidentally is also the theme at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge this month LOL, and because Linda is musical I selected this wonderful ZZ Top Gnome for her card.

Isn't he cool!!  I also went for the colours, sketch, friendship and stamp option.  I've used Lost Coast Designs Grunge Border 2" on the background, stamped with Picked Raspberry distress ink, smeared with Worn Lipstick and spritzed to make it all blend together.   When it was dry I cut the wholes using a sizzix mixed media die and added my stamped, coloured and fussy cut gnome.   The friends forever are Lost Coast Designs word stamps.  

I hope you have enjoyed my card.  If you would like to see all the amazing card that winged their way around the planet for March check out the REVEAL POST. 

If you would like to join the fun SIGN UP HERE. 

and if you stamped gnomes on your anythings then you could also link up at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge.

Thanks for dropping by.  HUGZ

Joining the fun at
Allsorts Challenge 846 - Springtime opt AG 
Scrappelyst Utfordring for April - Favorittprodukt three of my favourites here, distress inks, dies and stamps
Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge - Gnomes 

Odd Socks

Hello Nomad friends.   It's APRIL!!!!  It definitely rates in my top 10 of my most favourite months of the year.  Anyway, 1st of April, and no fooling, there's a new challenge over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  This month we are all about the little people and want you to share your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES!!!

Lost Coast Designs have a whole cupboard filled with adorable gnomes and I recently acquired this very cute Book Gnome.  I love books, and I have lots of friends who love books, so this little dude is going to be very useful.  I paired him with Lost Coast Designs Mayan Stele for an academic feel.  

You have all month to shared your stamped anythings featuring Gnomes for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  Hope to see you in the linky.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

 

Joining the fun at
Allsorts Challenge 846 - Springtime opt AG
Inspiration Station Challenge March inspired by green hats and brown
NBUS Challenge 85 first outing for book gnome 

Easter Bonnet

Hello Nomad friends.   This card was inspired by the Boblende kreativitet's moodboard and then it went a little bit strange.  

I started with a white hammered card base and smeared with mowed lawn distress ink then added a sheet of green paper embossed with a gemini embossing folder.  I smeared the embossed detail with pine needle distress ink to make it pop.  I cut the rosette using sizzix paper rosette die and some small strips of red card.  Then I added some blue scalloped circles and for some reason then I grabbed my missees Betty dies and went with blue hair.  I have always fancied blue hair!!!   Looks like her easter bonnet is exuberant!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

 

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Allsorts Challenge 846 - Springtime opt AG
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Emboss It
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Inspiration Station Challenge March I'm inspired by hats and green

Beer Box Bunnies

Hello Nomad friends.   Clocks forward an hour in Europe today leaving us owls way behind.  So here's a bunch of bunnies to brighten a grey short day.

Staring at the double-sided patterned card I used for my card base I finally decided it came from The Works.  I used a scrap of greenish card cut with Mama Elephant grass die and smooched with Mowed Lawn distress ink for the ground.  The bunnies are all cut from ex-beer box, and hoping my beer loving friend pays us a visit over Easter and brings me a new box, cos this one is disappearing fast.  I actually used three different bunny dies (you don't say!!) from two different manufacturers and three different sets.  Mix and match at it's finest!!  Mummy bunny with the egg is Nellie Snellen Easter bunny.  I added a little promarker detail and paper pieced a few more scraps in for the egg and flower.  Bunny on the left is from sizzix Nature Friends set, and bunny on the right from sizzix Quirky Animals.  

For a change I did a little inside management with the other half of the grass cut scrap and a writing field cut with Kort og Godt wonky circle.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

 

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Deer Friends

Hello Nomad friends.  My second christmas card for the month, this one inspired by a few different challenges.

I kept this scrap of patterned paper from the Nille sheet I was using the other day cos I thought the embossed deer and trees would make a nice background.  Endless Passion had the perfect sketch and I decided to add Poppystamps Shasta Oval Frame and Grand Whittle Reindeer to the scene.  The sentiment panel is a Spellbinders die stamped with some letter stamps.   

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

 

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A Girl's Best Friend

Hello Nomad friends.  I'm feeling pastel and purple and scrappy and geometrical.

I do like a nice hexagon card.  I used Daisy Mae distressed hexagons for the card base and smeared my white hammered card with wilted violet distress ink.  The little kraft squares are leftovers from when I cut some Poppystamp Clever Keypad details many moons ago, but a cute scrap is a cute scrap.  I stamped the squares with potting soil archival and a Rubber Dance heart stamp which will never be the same again.  Looking at it now, I maybe didn't need to permanently alter it, but heart stamps I have oodles of, triangles? not so many.  The girl is a piece of printed Studio Light paper cut with Poppystamps Simple Rings die.  Now, these are awesome!!   I thought I was buying a set of circle dies, but you actually get a set that cuts 2mm wide rings!!  You also get the circles for inside the rings, but in this case they are the negative cut, from ex-beer packaging.  What lovely kraft card they use for food.    

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

 

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

 

Presently Santa

Hello Nomad friends.  It's Christmas time!!!   OK, take a breath!  I am trying for at least two xmas cards a month and here's my first March offering.  

I made a round card with lots of Do-craft cardboard sticker presents and a MFP stamped, embossed, coloured and fussy cut santa.  I cut the background layers of Nille patterned paper with Kort og Godt wavy circle dies.

and then turned it into an easel card.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Pammies Inky Pinkies Challenge 2612
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Allsorts Challenge 845

Pushing Back The Blue

Hello Nomad friends.  Nature seems to think spring is here.  Bit chilly tonight though, and all my crocus disappeared into the deer!!!   Seems she doesn't like snowdrops though, so they are looking magnificent!!  Anyway, here's some encouragement using those crazy bunnies from sizzix.

I handcut the egg aperture from prima patterned paper and added another piece behind.  I cut sizzix bunny hop hares from various patterned scraps.  The ground is sizzix scribbles and the letters from the wood slices set.  The words of encouragement are from a patterned sheet.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

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Paper Funday Challenge 85 - Anything Goes opt Fur of Feathers 
Girlz Creative Fun Art of Scrap Challenge 19
Kaartjes Inspiratie Challenge 216 - Voorjaar/Pasen

Gnomey Dilemma

Hello Nomad friends.  It was a bit overcast today but quite warm and I spent some time in the garden planting some veg seed in pots.  Starting with good intentions LOL.  I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with some inspiration for the Make It Funny Challenge.  Do hop over and check out all the funny makes from the team.   Today I'm keeping it simple...

I stamped Flowers Gnome on a die cut panel and coloured with distress markers and gel pens.  Then I stamped the sentiment, mounted on a yellow base card and done!

 

 

Carmen's Veranda have so many funny, profound and meaningful sentiments do hop over and check them out.  New ones added regularly to the top of the page.

You have all month to share your funny stamped anythings. Please read the updated rules before entering. Real rubber or clear stamping and theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s.   We need at least 20 entries to award the prize.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz.

 

Joining the fun at
Paper Funday Challenge 85 - Anything Goes opt Fur of Feathers 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - CAS

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Beautiful Blooms 
Inspiration Station Challenge March I'm inspired by hats, green and brown and space

 

Going Green

Hello Nomad friends.  Top of the morning to you.  Happy St Patricks Day.  May all your leprechauns be lucky.  In celebration of my irish friends, of which I have one, I rolled out this fine fellow from Pink and Main.  He's my paddy's day go to......

I went with yellow base card and panel, embossing the panel with Pink and Main Garden Gate embossing folder and smearing with twisted citron distress ink.  I stamped Pink and Main Lucky Charm on white card, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.  The sentiment is from the P&M Good Vibes set and I used a spellbinders die for the fancy panel.  

Enjoy your day.  We will be eating traditional St Patricks Day fare, lasagne.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Paper Funday Challenge 85 - Anything Goes opt Fur of Feathers 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - A Bit O'Green 
Inspiration Station Challenge March I'm inspired by green and hats
Pink and Main Challenge 15 - Texture

 

A Meaningful Lie Detector

Hello Nomad friends.  I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with some seriously funny inspiration for the Make It Funny Challenge.  

I used Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background with prickly pear distress ink.  The jury is out on whether the stamp or the ink pad is slightly contaminated with lingering autumn shades LOL.  Then I stamped Lost Coast Designs Face With Feathers and the Carmen's Veranda sentiment with black archival ink.  I tried colouring directly onto the panel with my gel pens, but it wasn't working, so I stamped the face on white card, coloured, fussy cut the bits and glued them in place.

 

 

Carmen's Veranda have so many funny, profound and meaningful sentiments do hop over and check them out.  New ones added regularly to the top of the page.

You have all month to share your funny stamped anythings. Please read the updated rules before entering. Real rubber or clear stamping and theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s.   We need at least 20 entries to award the prize.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

  

Joining the fun at
Paper Funday Challenge 85 - Anything Goes opt Fur of Feathers 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - A Bit O'Green 
Allsorts Challenge 844 - Ribbons and Bows opt AG

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - A Bit O'Green 
Art Nudge March Challenge - ARTNUDGE0326A inspired by the colours