I've been trying my best NOT to post online these days -- mostly because everything seems to get a political leaning mad - well - I've already accidentally posted to this blog items I've meant for one of my other pages as it is.
We put in a seed order this year and have found the seed catalog more than a tad vague when it came to seeds sold by the thousand but only had an option of 10 thousand ...
Needless to say .... it caused quite a bit of tension when hubby came home with the order
I needed to de-stress
Enter Maymay Made It she has issued a Punch Art challenge ... and I wanted to send a quick note to my brother to be sure he wasn't ok (he is in/on hospice)
So here is the card I made for him
It's plain, clean & simple ... but it didn't actually use ANY punches
But only because I don't own very many
I used regular old Cutting dies
Simply Made Crafts "Square Paper Bag/Lantern " Die set - the banner (his hat) and 2 of the pedal flower dies, the medium (his feet) and the small (his nose)
Gemini Stitched Hearts - either die 3 or 4 would work, I chose #3 (smallest to largest) for his beard
The paper came from my stash, background from a 8x8 square that already had the green & blue
The paper for the beard & his hat came from the SSS 2020 March card kit
Any ink can be used to color the edges, I happened to use "Gingerbread" Hybrid ink from Scrapbooking.com
I covered the hat with a layer of clear Wink-a-Luna but it didn't really show up very well, so I say just forget about it
Then I hit the edge of EACH piece with the ink pad - best to do it now before you glue it together
Glue the hat behind the heart in the "hump" side, just enough so the corners don't show
Then cut a THREE petal piece from the medium flower keeping them attached to one another. Clip off the CENTER petal with cutting the other 2 apart (so it's kind of like a V)
Glue the feet behind the pointed end of the heart ❤️ making them stick out to your liking
Cut 1 petal off the small flower and glue onto the face between the 2 heart humps for the nose
Draw a smirk under the nose
I decided once the glu had dried to gently curve the hat & beard of the gnome
Then I used thin bits of foam (Scrapbooking Made Simple) to pop it up on the card front
Cut a tag, write "Staying Gnome, Thinking of You" on it
Attach to card front
Write a message inside the card base
Glue the card front on the outside - check to be sure it's going the correct direction
And Viola!!
Pop in the mail and off it goes!
