Greetings! It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a card with you. This week's theme is "Outdoors". I recently received the new Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set by Stamperia, which combines two of my favorite subjects — Steampunk and Gnomes. The gnome stamps and the other stamps in the set were perfect for the theme. The Steampunk elements from Lavinia Stamps add an additional whimsical touch.
Here's my card created with Stamperia's Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set, plus the Clock Set 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp Set, the Compass Small Clear Acrylic Stamp, and the Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp by Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp. I also used the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil by Carla Creates for Vaessen Creative, Della Blue, Lime Punch, and Pine Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps, and sentiment stickers from the Uplifting Stickers Set 6.
Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the walking gnome from the Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set by Stamperia onto white cardstock.
Fussy-cut the gnome image, color with Copic markers, edge with a dark marker, and set him aside.
Use Copic-friendly yellow ink to stamp the clock with the roman numerals from the Clock Set 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps twice — once onto white cardstock cut to 6 ¾" x 4 ¾" and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Use yellow Copic markers to color the Clock image to become the sun. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as mask. This Clock image will become the sun in our scene.
Place the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil by Carla Creates for Vaessen Creative towards the top of the image panel. Brush or sponge Della Blue Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps over the top of the stencil onto the masked image panel to start to create a cloudy blue sky. Move the stencil down, rotate it, and brush or sponge the Della Blue Elements Ink onto the image panel. Continue this process until the panel is complete. Edge the panel with Della Blue Elements Ink.
Cut another piece of white cardstock to 6 ¾". Brush or sponge Lime Punch Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps onto the white cardstock to color it. Use hill border dies to cut the inked paper so that you have three green hilly die-cuts.
Use Pine Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps to randomly stamp the grid pattern from the Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set by Stamperia onto the largest and smallest hill die-cuts.
Use Pine Elements Ink to stamp the Compass Small twice — once onto the mid-sized hill die-cut and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart. Use Pine Elements Ink to randomly stamp the Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp onto the masked mid-sized hill die-cut.
Remove the Compass's mask. Layer and adhere the hill die-cuts onto the bottom part of the cloudy sky background panel. Trim ⅛" off the width and height of the scenic background, edge the hill area with Pine Elements Ink and the sky area with Della Blue Elements Ink, then mat it with a piece of 6 ¾" x 4 ¾" blue cardstock. Adhere the layered and matted scenic background onto a white 7" x 5" card.
Use a sentiment strip die to cut blue cardstock three times. Adhere white sentiment stickers from the Uplifting Stickers Set 6 by Lavinia Stamps to the blue die-cuts.
Adhere the fussy-cut gnome onto the scene as shown. Adhere the sentiment sticker/die-cuts to finish the card.
Please pop over to my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping, for step-by-step instructions and complete supply lists.
Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Della Blue, Lime Punch, and Pine Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps
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