Cold and Frosty Gnome Christmas Card

Greetings! Here's a Christmas card created for the Cold and Frosty Challenge over at Lost Coast's Portal To Creativity with the Looking Up Gnome from the Mini Gnomes 2 Unmounted Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs. In the first panel our hero Gnome is enjoying nice weather, but dreaming of a white Christmas. In the second panel, his wish came a bit too true for him.

Here's the card. 

Products Used:

Mini Gnomes 2 Unmounted Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Kraft Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Handmade Holidays Patterned Paper 6x6 Pad by Simple Stories

Tuxedo Black and Desert Sand Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Tumbled Grass, Worn Lipstick, Bundled Sage Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Jet Black StazOn Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Copic Markers: 

Gnome's Skin: BV0000, E50, DE21, E11, E00, R02, R01
Gnome's Beard and Mustache: C3, C2, C1, C0

Gnome's Hat: B91, B52

Gnome's Shirt: G40, G82

Gnome's Gloves and Shoes: E74, E71, E70

Mushrooms: R32, R30, R22, R20, R11, E44, E43, E42

Acetate Hills Mask by Lavinia Stamps

Mini Whimsical Shrooms Stencil by The Crafter's Workshop

Pearlescent and Translucent White PanPastels

White Posca Paint Pen by Mitsubishi Pencil

Clear Stardust Glitter Gel Pen by Sakura of America

Sookwang Tape

Vellum by Strathmore

Speech Bubble Cutting Dies: Source Unknown

"Seriously?" Stencil by A Colorful Life Designs

Winter-Time Remnant Rubs by Tim Holtz/Idea-ology by Advantus

Repositionable Sticker Paper

.25" Washi Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Place .25" wide washi tape around the edges of a 5.25" x 4" panel and down the center to create two panels.
2. Place the panel onto a stamping platform and secure with magnets.
3. Place the looking up gnome from the Mini Gnomes 2 Unmounted Stamp Set facedown on the right panel. 
4. Press the lid of the platform on the stamp and lift.
5. Ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp. 
6. Scoot the taped panel over to the right, ink the stamp, and stamped the Gnome again onto the left panel. 
7. Remove the image panel and color both gnomes with Copic markers. 
8. Stamp the Gnome two more times onto repositionable sticker paper.
9. Fussy-cut the sticker paper Gnomes and placed them over both gnomes on the image panel as masks. 
10. Place the image panel onto the STAY-tion.
11. Place the flattish Acetate mask over the bottom part of both panels just below the Gnomes' feet. 
12. Place the Mushroom Cluster part of the Whimsical Shroom Stencil over the Gnome on the left panel. 
13. Brush Desert Sand Memento Ink and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink over the stalks and caps of a mushroom cluster part onto the image panel and onto repositionable sticker paper.
14. Clean and dry the stencil, move it to the cover the Gnome on the right panel.
15. Brush Desert Sand Memento Ink and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink over the stalks and caps of a mushroom cluster part onto the image panel and onto repositionable sticker paper.
16. Fussy-cut the mushrooms and place them over the mushrooms on the image panels as masks 
17. Brush Tumbled Glass Distress Ink was over the masked mushrooms, the masked Gnomes, and over the acetate mask onto both panels.
18. Position the Fern Cluster from the same stencil over the image panel on the left. 
19. Brush Bundled Sage Distress Ink over the fern cluster onto the image panel.
20. Clean the stencil and re-position the fern cluster on the image panel on the right.
21. Brush Bundled Sage Distress Ink over the fern cluster onto the image panel.
22. Move the acetate mask slightly downwards and brush Desert Sand Memento Ink over the top of the image panel to start the ground.
23. Remove the acetate mask and continue to brush Desert Sand Memento Ink to create the ground.
24. Remove the masks from the mushrooms and gnomes. 
25. Cover the left panel completely. 
26. Apply flat white and shimmery white Pan Pastels over the right panel. 
27. When the Gnome was obscured, tap a white Posca Paint pen to add white splatter to the image panel.
28. Then use the Posca Paint Pen to add more intentional snow to the panel. 
29. When the Posca paint is dry, use a clear glitter pen to add touches of sparkle to the snow.
30. Gently remove the washi tape was removed from the image panel. Sadly, I should have been more gentle. The paper didn't tear, but it did lift a bit on the right side. Bummer.
31. Back a piece of translucent vellum with double-sided tape.
32. Use speech bubble cutting die and the dots from other speech bubble die sets to cut the vellum.
33. Add the "Dreaming of a White Christmas" with Christmas-time Remnant Rubs  to one of the speech bubbles. 
34. Sponge Jet Black StazOn Ink through the "Seriously?" Stencil onto the other speech bubble. Let dry.
35. Adhere both vellum sentiment speech bubbles and vellum dots to their respective panels. 
36. Use the White Posca pen to add snow dots  to the "Seriously?" Speech bubble to reinforce the snow-mageddon theme.
37. Adhere a piece of 5.5" x 4.25" patterned paper to an A2 kraft card then edge the card with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. 
38. Adhere the image panel to finish the card.

I hope to see you playing along with Lost Coast's Portal to Creativity December Cold and Frosty Challenge. 

Thanks for visiting today!