Hellooooooooo
Today I have yet another Halloween gnome card to show ya.
I loved this on so much I’m sending it to Christopher at Brutus Monroe 😍
On this card I did a little inking, stenciling, stamping, alcohol marker coloring, fussy cutting, and stamp surgery.
I know most of y’all are afraid of stamp surgery, but I’ve been stamping so long that I used to cut apart full sheets of unmounted rubber so a lil’ surgery doesn’t scare me 😂
So let’s make a card.
First, stamp, color, and cut out your gnome.
I stamped him on Bristol smooth card stock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and colored with alcohol markers. I’m still practicing but I was pretty happy with this result.
Cut the little guy out and set him aside.
Next, start on the background.
I used the rough side of Distress watercolor paper.
You’ll need a moon mask/stencil set, a bat stencil, and Distress Oxide inks.
Lay the outline stencil down and ink with Mustard Seed.
The next layer use Fossilized Amber.
The next layer use Pumice stone.
Remove the stencil and ink over the entire panel with Pumice Stone.
Next, ink over the entire panel with Faded Jeans, inking only a little over the edge of the moon. Repeat with Black Soot. Throw a little water at it and let the Oxide ink do its thing. Dry with heat tool and stencil on bats using Black Soot.
Use an alcohol (or other) marker to add grass at the bottom of the panel.
Now die cut some little bats from black glitter paper.
Now let’s stamp the sentiment. Here’s where the surgery comes in.
Happy Halloween is on two lines but I needed it on one, so I cut it apart and lined it up on an acrylic block. Stamp with black ink onto a scrap of white and cut out. I used a sentiment strip die. Ink it up a little and set aside.
No you need to stamp and color the apple barrel. Fussy cut it and set aside.
Stamp just the apples (so the top of the barrel) twice. Color and cut out.
Stamp, color, and cut out the jack o lantern. He’s so cute!
Assemble the card.
Add the die cut bats with foam tape. Glue the sentiment down flat.
Arrange the gnome, apples, jack o lantern, and apple barrel on the card without gluing it down. Once you’re happy within the arrangement, start gluing, starting with the gnome (which is the top layer) down.
How I did it: first, I picked up the gnome and the jack o lantern, and glued the jack o lantern to the back of the gnome. Then, I glued some apple behind the jack o lantern. Then I glued the gnome down but did not put glue behind the broom. Once the gnome was down, I put the apple barrel behind the broom and glued it in place. Then I put glue behind the broom and pressed it into place. I then arranged the rest of the apples.
Add the panel to an A2 side folding card base.
Finishing touches- I used a gold gel pen on the gnome’s witchy hat buckle, and a Lawn Fawn glitter pen on some of the apple and in the jack o lantern’s smile & eyes.
I like the texture that using the rough side of the watercolor gives the sky.
Supplies:
- card base, scissors, liquid adhesive (I use Bearly Art glue), foam adhesive, mister bottle, yea tool, die cut machine, black stamping ink, acrylic block
- Brutus Monroe Stamptember set (or another gnome in your stash). This set is sold out hut here’s a cute one.
- Distress watercolor paper
- Sizzix die set
- bat stencil
- moon mask & stencil set
- Distress oxide inks– Black Soot, Faded Jeans, Pumice Stone, Mustard Seed, Fossilized Amber
- blending tools for your inks.
- alcohol markers (or whatever else you like) to color you images
- white paper for stamping & coloring on
- glitter pen