Home For Christmas

 I missed Christmas last year. There was a three day snow storm that started on Dec. 24 and didn't stop until Dec. 27. It was literally like we were in a snow globe and not safe to travel anywhere. I'm not sure if I could have even walked to my Mom's if I lived closer but being snowed in and a Christmas snow storm was the inspiration for my card featuring "Christmas Gofer" from High Hopes Rubber Stamps.

I stamped onto alcohol marker friendly paper and coloured with Copic markers. I hand sketched some extra snow banks and used a Copic multi liner pen on them when I was happy with their placement. I added the lines because I wanted it to look like big, deep piles of snow that this adorable gofer was trying to get through. I found some paper from Whimsy Stamps for my background paper and cut it to size and cut some trees out of a border die. Then, I held my breath and splattered some watered down white acrylic paint over the whole scene to look like he was in a blizzard. 

I chose two sentiments to mask off and stamp to create the sentiments for my card. Some sparkly snowflakes cut out of a snowflake border die and enamel dots finish off my card. 

Stamp Recipe

Stamps - Christmas Gofer (TDG003)- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - All Hearts (HDG004), Gnome For Christmas (GDG005) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper - Blurry Flurries - Whimsy Stamps

Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Hammermill Digital Cover Card Stock, enamel dots, white acrylic paint, snowflake border die - Whimsy Stamps, tree border die - Gina Marie Designs

Copic Markers

Nose - E25 E27 E29

Body - E33 E35 E57

Hat/Scarf - YG61 YG63 YG67 R24 R34 R59

Ornaments - YG61 YG63 YG67 R28 E30 E31 E43 C0 C1 C2

Berries - R24 R37 R59

Snow - B000 B00 B01 B02

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Gnome for Christmas!!

 Happy Sunday HH Fans!

Yesterday we opened the vault & released Skiing Racoon.  Today I have another surprise vault release....say hello again to Sledding Gnomes.  Aren't they just the cutest?!  

I was super excited to get to colour these cuties.....I love gnomes!  In fact I got so excited that I just started colouring without picking my patterned paper first...something I never usually do.  So that meant I had a bit of a challenge on my hands.  Reason....I added blue to this image with traditional red & green.  Blue does go with green and red BUT it was the shade of blue I chose that made it a challenge.  Finally after some digging through my abundant stash of paper I came across a Memory Box pad called Woodsy Plaid.  Low & behold the blue was a pretty good match.  I liked the gold in the paper too.  I also put on a small strip of Echo Park My Favorite Christmas paper.  My papers are getting older by the day, I haven't bought any new stuff for quite sometime.  I just have soooo much paper & I'm trying to be a good girl and not buy more.  I think it might be time this girl orders some new paper lol.

Copic Colours

Red - R37, R35, R46

Blue - B24, B23, B21

Skin - E0000, E00, E01, E04

Green - G28, G24, G21

Holly - G46, G43, G40

Berries - R37

Beards - W3, W1, W00

Jack Sleeves - C6, C4, C2, C0

Pom Poms - C0 with Stardust Stickles

Shading - W3, W1, W0, W00

Stamps 

Sledding Gnomes - TDG053

Gnome for Christmas - FDG005

Thanks for visiting today, happy stampin'!

Cocoa Gnome!

Happy Tuesday!

Oh my gosh! I absolutely love this adorable Gnome from High Hopes Stamps called: "Cocoa Gnome"!  Lora opened the vault for this re-release of previously retired stamps and is calling it "Winter Wonderland"! I'm a morning coffee drinker but love a hot beverage at night and hot cocoa is often my go to! No marshmallows for me but I'll take that gingerbread cookie LOL!

I decided to use papers for my card from the Polkadoodles "HOHO Gnome" & "Gnome Season" 6x6 collections. To start my card, I stamped the image onto some Copic friendly paper and coloured it to match the papers with my Copic Sketch markers. Then using my Brother Cut N Scan I cut around the image. I added a heart border to each side of the middle strip of paper for a fun look. I added the HH "Gnome For Christmas" sentiment to the bottom corner. Both the sentiment and image are popped up with foam squares for added dimension to my card. I love glitter, so I added some Diamond Stickles to the Gnome's hat. A bit or ribbon, bow and enamel dots finish off my card.

Copics Used:

Skin: E01, E21, E11

Beard & Marshmallows: C00, C0, C1, C3

Greens: YG03, G94, G99

Red: RV34, R56 R59, R81/ R35, R37

Bow: BG11, BG13, BG34

Packets: W00, W1, W3

Gingerbread: E33, E35, E37, R35

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check High Hopes out on:

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You'll see all the goodies in the Woodland Winter Release on those sites!

Happy Stamping!