Pyjama Gnomes for Paper Players #514
25 October 2020
Happy Saturday.
It's my pleasure to host the Paper Players challenge this week and it's sketch week.
I decided it was time to bring out my Simon Says Stamp gnomes and dress them up in Christmas pyjamas! I used some of the Stampin' Up! plaid paper and die cut the outfits and adhered them to the die-cut gnomes. I added a little texture to their beards by running a piece of whisper white card stock through my big shot with the Dazzling Diamonds embossing folder.. The sentiment was created on my Mac and printed on Neenah Solar White card stock.
The background was created using my cheap blending brushes and I added some "snow" by splattering some Dr Ph. Martin's white ink on top of the blended background. I used some old dies to create the snowdrifts and placed the gnomes on them.
As always, the design team have some fabulous inspiration for you:
On a personal note:
Well, I finally managed to get into my craft room to do some creating today and I am hoping to escape there for a little while tomorrow, too! It isn't the sort of weather that is saying "come out and enjoy me"! We had 7 inches of snow the other day. Breaking records for the most amount of snow this early in the year. Oh... and yeah! we have had another two snowfalls since then!
So, our deck which looked awesome just two weeks ago - looked like this at the end of the first snowstorm.
We moved the table up in time to have dinner on the deck on our anniversary. That night it was 85 degrees when we were sitting having dinner!
Our "little" juniper at the front looked gorgeous. (Side note: when we planted this guy back in 2012, he was about 5 feet high and a couple of feet in diameter. It was touch and go as to whether he would even survive! Now, he's about about 15 feet high and pretty wide and provides so much wonderful shelter for the birds!)
I'll be back tomorrow with another card. In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.
Hugs
Jaydee
Card recipe:
- Dies: Simon Says Stamp
- Card stock: Neenah Solar White 110#
- DSP: Plaid - Stampin' Up! (retired)