Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! As I keep saying every 2 weeks, my heart gets excited about crafting Christmas cards! This one is no exception. The layout did bother me a bit but instead of doing a horizontal, my focal image appeared better to me in a vertical slimline form.
My Time To Craft Christmas challenge blog's #47 theme requires elves or gnomes. It's okay to use just 1 like I have. Online talented friend Mary Smith (Createful Heart Design) drew this adorable envelope- holding gnome.
Gnome/Gnomie featured focal Christmas card:
Some design notes and vendors about this card:
1. slimline light tan/sand cardstock base is 4" wide x 8.5" high
2. 3 other solid color cardstock scraps are from stash
3. Createful Heart Design/Mary Smith for the gnome digital image; black fine marker borders were added by me; also little white and silver snowflakes (Hot Off The Press) were added by me; colored by me
4. candy cane patterned paper is from The Paper Studio
5. "MC" green foil/metallic dazzle/lettering and medium white and silver snowflake are from Hot Off The Press available at The Paper Wishes website
6. an old white stamp pad was applied with smearing motions in order to give the paper scraps' edges a snowy touch
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MTTCC #47 blog link= https://mytimetocraftchristmas.blogspot.com/2022/11/mttcc-47-theme-is-elves-or-gnomes.html
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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups to share this card/blog link=
A. The 12 Months of Christmas Link-ups challenge blog; November 2022; Anything Christmas Goes with the option of patterned paper; MY card has candy cane patterned paper
link= http://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/2022/11/challenge-94-anything-goes-christmas.html
B. Inspired By challenge blog; start date November 10; gnomes photo inspiration; there is a sketch too but MY card just features a cute gnome
link= https://theseinspiredchallenges.blogspot.com/2022/11/inspired-by-gnomes.html
photo inspiration =
C. The Fairy and Unicorn challenge blog; current competition month/November; anything with a fantasy/mystical/magical creature; MY card has a gnome
D. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges blog; current competition started 11/9/22; anything goes
link= http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2022/11/pennys-challenge-534.html
E. Mixed Media Creativity group; digital image colored with combination of glitter paint pens, colored pencils; black fine-tip marker for outlining of digital image; little snowflake 'dazzles' and the "MC" dazzles; white ink applied to the solid colored scraps' edges;
F. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group
G. Slimline Cards Obsessed group
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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S
I'm a DT member for My Time To Craft Christmas and its sister blog, My Time To Craft
and also for these: MIUCB, MLCCB, THICC, OUAT, AACB
along with owning these 2 challenge blogs: Heart's Quest and FarmQuest
