Christmas Fairies and Gnomes

 Hey, Everyone.

Hope your Tuesday's treating you well.

I'm here with a set of Artist Trading Cards (ATC's) that I made for a fantasy theme.

My mind conjured up different ways to go but my first thought was fairies and gnomes, so that's what I've used. I need to beef up my Christmas and Valentine display art, so I chose Christmas this time. These will hang from my Tim Carrousel in my art corner.

I have a large assortment of pre-cut ATC blanks in different colors, so I chose green, navy blue and winter white card bases. Then I used various fairy stamps from Lavinia, Polkadoodles gnome stamps from Creative Stamping Magazine Issue 102 and Colorado Craft gnome stamps from Issue 115 to stamp backgrounds and scenes. I also used pine tree branch stamps from Issue 101. I hardly ever use these kinds of stamps and it's a shame, really, because I have a bunch of them.

On the green card, I stamped a Christmas tree background with the pine branch stamps and Rain Forest Versafine Clair ink. I edged the card with a Pine Promarker. I stamped the fun-loving Polkadoodles gnomes with Nocturne Versafine Clair, fussy-cut it and colored it up with Zig Clean Color Markers. I accented the image with my glitter markers. Then I ink-blended a piece of white card with the Green Versafine Clair and cut 3 pine branches using Tim's Holiday Greens, securing at the top. I slid the top stem of the ornament under the top branch so that it appears that they are swinging from it.

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For this one, I used the navy blue card base and stamped Lavinia stamps in Versamark, then heat-embossed with white powder. On a scrap of white card, I stamped the sentiment in Versamark and heat-embossed it with navy powder, then trimmed it down and popped it up with foam tape. I die cut some Rubbernecker tiny flowers with silver mirror card and scattered them in the trees, adding some smooth silver disc dots on the flower centers. Then I drew stars at the top with a white gel pen and went to town dotting and spotting the sky and trees using my glitter markers and gel pens.

I began this ATC with the winter white card base. I stamped a Hero Arts funky tree with Versafine Clair ink and colored it with the Zigs. Then I accented with a gold glitter gel pen. I colored the bottom white  snowy ground with a colored pencil and then a white Wink of Stella. I stippled the sky with Storm Sky Distress ink and then used a white gel pen to draw snowflakes all over. On white card, I stamped a little Papertrey Ink present and the Colorado Craft gnome girl and colored with the Zigs and the glitter markers. The poinsettia plant is a very old Sizzix Strip die cut, also colored the same way. I taped down the little present under the tree, then popped up the plant and the gnome girl using the foam tape. Lastly, I ran a Cornflower Blue Promarker around the card perimeter.

Final look. I enjoyed the challenge of figuring out what to make and then finding small enough materials to use! 

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Thanks for the visit and God Speed to all of my Florida friends in the path of Hurricane Idalia.

XXO

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