I Vike You

Here's a card for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's February Love and Hearts Challenge 206 created with the Viking Gnome Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Products Used:
Viking Gnome Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Tuxedo Black, Summer Sky, and London Fog Memento Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Copic Markers: 

Skin: BV0000, E50, R11, R01, R00, R000

Beard: C4, C32, C2, C1, C0, YR31, &R30

Clothing: B45, B41

Shoes: E79, E77, E74, E71

Hat: E97, E18, E17, E15, E08, E07, YR24

Horns: T1, T0, E41, E40

Axe Handle: E27, E25, E23, W1

Axe Blade: C1, C0, C00

Ruby Slippers Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Hearts and Ombre Black Bella Besties Patterned Paper by Bella Blvd.

Circles Nestabilities Die Set by Spellbinders

Heart Circles Nestabilities Die Set by Spellbinders

Alphanumeric Tiny Type Upper and Lower Thinlits Die Set by Tim Holtz for Sizzix

Quick Strips 2 Die Set by Whimsy Stamps

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low-tack tape

Repositionable Scotch Tape by 3M

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a 5.5" square card from Ruby Slippers Cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to ink the Viking Gnome Rubber Stamp, then stamp it twice — once onto a piece of white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
3. Use Copic markers to color the gnome
4. Fussy-cut the gnome and place the fussy-cut stickers over its counterpart as a mask.
5. Place a Nestabilities circle die facedown on the image panel and secure it with low-tack tape. 
6. Run the die and image panel through the machine. 
7. Flip the sandwich  onto a work surface so the reverse is facing upwards. 
8. Use low-tack tape to secure the die-cut image panel to the rest of the panel.
9. Flip the die-cut/image panel again so that it's right-side up with the image panel still inside the die. 
10. Place a piece of Repositionable Scotch Tape horizontally across the image panel at the Gnome's ankles.
11. Brush Summer Sky Memento Ink over the die, the tape, and the masked gnome to add a background behind him.
12. Move the Repositionable Scotch Tape so that it's sitting on the horizon line and covering the top part of the circle.
13. Brush London Fog Memento Ink over the die, the tape, and the masked gnome's boots to ground the gnome.
14. Remove the low-tack tape from the reverse of the image panel to release the image panel die-cut.
15. Remove the low-tack tape from the back of the die. 
16. Clean the ink off of the die.
17. Remove the mask from the gnome and set the die-cut image panel aside.
18. Use one of the heart circle dies to cut Ruby Slippers cardstock.
19. Adhere the circle die-cut image panel atop the red cardstock circle heart die-cut.
20. Retain two of the hearts, poked from the die-cut, to use later.
21. Cut a piece of Black Hearts and Ombre Patterned Paper to 5.25" square and edge with a grey marker.
22. Adhere the matted image panel die-cut to the patterned paper cardfront as shown.
23. Adhere the patterned paper to the reserved red card.
24. Apply two-sided tape to the back (non textured) side of a pice of the remaining Ruby Slippers cardstock.
25. Use the Alphanumeric Tiny Type Upper and Lower Case Thinlits to spell out the "I vike you" sentiment.
26. Use one of the dies from the QuickStrips 2 die set to cut white cardstock.
27. Adhere the Alphanumeric Dies and the two small hearts to the strip die.
28. Adhere sentiment die-cut as shown to finish the card.

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I hope you play along with the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's February Love and Hearts Challenge 206 for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!