Santa Gnome

Today I'm sharing another awesome image from KLM Digital Designs - this is Santa Gnome!  I have colored the image with Copics, then fussy cut it and mounted it on to a background I created with a Polkadoodle stencil and Distress inks.

Card Recipe

Skin - E01, E11

Red - R39, R59, RV69, RV99

Black - T6, T10

Beard - C1, C3

Fur, Trim - B0000, C1

White flock on suit trim

Polar White Flower Soft on hat trim and ball

Sky - Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch - Distress Inks

Trees - Mowed Lawn, Pine Needles - Distress Inks

Trunks - Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

Liquid Applique for snow on ground

Clear Glitter Glue on trees

Polkadoodles Winter Tree Stencil

Mistletoe Gnome Greetings

Well Christmas is fast approaching which means I need to get the Christmas cards done, so today I colored up the adorable Mistletoe Gnome from KLM Digital Designs.  I colored him with Copics, then fussy cut him out, placing him on the background I created with the Paper Rose stencil Stephanie, and the Distress inks Peacock Feathers and Speckled Egg.  The sentiment is an oldie from my stash that I stamped and then cut apart.

Card Recipe

Blue - B34, B37, B39

Cream trim - Y000, Y11, E30

Skin - E01, E11

Beard - C1, C3

Pinecone - E31, E37

Green - G43, G46

Red - R35, R37, R39

Silver pen for stitching detail

Thanksgiving Greetings

Here in Canada we celebrated Thanksgiving on October 12, where we celebrate the harvest, and being thankful for everyone in our lives.  In the United States Thanksgiving is celebrated in late November, and while it is also about being thankful for the harvest and people in their lives, they also celebrate the history of the pilgrams that settled in their country.  This card that I designed uses the Pilgram Girl image from KLM Digital Designs.  I printed the image on to Copic Xpress It cardstock, then colored it with Copics, with a touch of gold ink on the sentiment that is also from this image.

Card Recipe

Skin - E00, E01, E11

Whites - C2, C00

Black - N3, N6, N9

Brown - E44, E47, E49

Pie - Y21, Y26, YR24

Hair - E13, E15, E35

Gold Metallic Gel pen for lettering

Bats About You

 A friend recently shared this on Facebook and I absolutely love it, so I just had to share as today's card features Vampire Gnome from KLM Digital Designs. 

Card Recipe 

Yellow - Y32, Y38

Purple - BV04, BV08, V09

Nose - E02, E11, E13

Green - YG03, YG25, YG17

Black - T5, T8, 100

Beard - W2, W4

Teeth - C2

Three Witches Brewing

This is the year for me to make Halloween cards, usually something I don't do, but the images from KLM Digital Designs are just to cute to not color them up!  This is Three Witches that I have colored the entire card front with Copic markers. Just love these little witches!!  

Card Recipe 

Skin - E00, E01, E11

Orange - YR04, YR07, YR09

Yellow - Y11, Y15, Y17

Green - YG01, YG03, YG23

Purple - V12, V15, V17

Black - N3, N5, N6, N10

Sky - B32, B34, B37

Broom - E35, E39, E79

Boo letters - Silver Pearl pen by Viva Decor

Welcome Fall

Fall is in the air here in British Columbia!  We have brought in all of the tomatoes, and I am slowly cutting down the perennials in preparation of winter slumber.  Yesterday I planted about 80 bulbs of various spring bulbs, and still have about 80 to go in the ground!  Yes I went a little crazy buying bulbs!!

To celebrate the season I have colored up the Pumpkin Girl digital image from KLM Digital Designs. I printed the image on to Copic Xpress It cardstock and colored it with Copics.  Some older Kaisercraft paper finished off the card.

Card Recipe

Sweater - YR12, YR16, YR18, E19

Turtleneck - G94, G99

Skin - E00, E01, E11

Hair, shoes - E35, E37, E39

Socks - E31

Pants - B45, B97, B99

Pumpkin - YR02, YR94, YR09

Gnomes Love Pets

Good afternoon!  It's a perfect day to stay inside to avoid the smoke that has descended on us here in southern British Columbia.  It is so bad that Canada Post has halted all deliveries of mail!!  I feel so bad for everyone dealing with the fires in western states!!  Stay safe everyone!!

Today's card is another adorable image from KLM Digital Designs - Gnomes and Pets!  I printed the image on Copic Xpress It cardstock, colored with Copics, and then fussy cut it out.  The background was created with a paw print stencil from my stash, and the following Distress Oxide inks - Ground Espresso, Vintage Photo, and Rusty Hinge.  

Card Recipe

Pants - B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

Skin - E01, E11, E13

Shirt - G40, G43, G46

Cat - W4, W7, W10, inside of ears E04, eyes G46

Dog - E33, E35, E37, eyes B24,  nose E49

Hat - E50,  E51, E53

Beard - C1, C3

Shoes - E39, E29

Ground - C3

Wolly Hope...

I love the images from KLM Digital Designs, and this sweet little sheep is definitely top of the list.  How can you resist the sheep and the awesome sentiment!  I printed the image on to Copic Xpress It cardstock, and then colored with Copic sketch markers.  Double matting tied the colors of the sheep together to make this card.

  

Card Recipe 

Black - N10, N5

Eyes - B12, B16

Tongue - E04

Grass - G85

Wool - B0000, C1

Happy Birthday Champ

KLM Digital Designs is known for their adorable Gnomes, but did you know that they also have other designs!  This is just one of the newest designs available today in the store - Basketball Player.  I printed the image onto Copic Xpress It cardstock, and then colored it with Copic markers.  The sentiment is also a part of the stamp set, so it was easy to merge the two into one image.  I kept the card clean and simple, and it would be a perfect card for the special teenager in your life!

Card Recipe

Skin - E00, E01, E11

Green Trim - G09, G19

Blue - B14, B16, B18

Basketball - YR15, YR18, YR27    

Dots on basketball - E99

Hair - N5, N7, N10

Thank You to Firefighters Everywhere

This post is to salute the firefighters around the world who battle all types of fire.  Living in the beautiful Kootenay's of British Columbia, every summer we seem to be surrounded by forest fires, and this year is proving a little too close to home.  Just a short 15 kilometres away we have the Talbot Creek fire raging - close to 300 hectares have been lost and the fight continues.  Some days we have smoke and the smell of the fires, others are not too bad.  

My card today features another gnome from KLM Digital Designs - Fireman #2 Gnome!!  I printed the image onto Copic Xpress It cardstock, colored with Copics, and then fussy cut the image out.  The card front was created on watercolor paper with the use of Color Bursts and Liquid Metals from Ken Oliver.  The sentiment was one I created on my computer.

Card Recipe 

Skin - E00, E01, E11

Beard - W1, W3, W5

Axe Head - C0, C2, C5

Badge on Helmet - Y26

Outfit - E31, E34, E35

Axe Handle - E43, E47

Red - R24, R27, R39\

Black - N4, N7, N10

Color Bursts - Yellow Ochre, Orange, Alizarin Crimson

Liquid Metal - Iron Oxide

True Friends

Welcome to my sharing another adorable image from KLM Digital Designs!  This is Friends With Nature digital stamp, that includes this sentiment plus two more!  I have colored the image with Copic sketch markers, then fussy cut it.  The card front was done with Mowed Lawn, Faded Jeans and Salty Ocean Distress Oxides inks, to which I added an older Memory Box die, and then the image.

Card Recipe

Skin - E01, E11, E13

Jeans - B93, B95, B97, B91

Shirt - E84, E87, E89

Bird - E08, E33, E35, E37

Hair - YR24, E25, E99

Shoes - R22, R24, R27

Whites on runners - C2

One Hell of a Time

Ok, I colored this image almost a year ago, and then couldn't figure out how to get the entire image onto a card front!! So it sat in my to do pile until two days ago, then I bit the bullet and scored it to make it into the interior of the card! So nervous that it wouldn't work but....ta da, here it is in all it's glory!!!

This fantastic image is Mel's Angel from Pink Ink Designs.  I stamped the image on Copic Xpress It cardstock, then colored with Copics, with just a touch of a white Prismacolor pencil added to the highlights.  The sentiment and the logo on the front of the card were both embossed with silver, and some silver Viva Decor pearl pen was used to fill in the heart.  I absolutely love the finished product!!

Cupcakes Anyone?

We are headed into another heat wave - it was 29C at 11 am today, so we know its gonna be a scorcher.  They are predicating a few more days of this beautiful sunny weather, so I'll be inside coloring to get away from the heat!

Today's card features another adorable gnome from KLM Digital Designs - this is Cupcake Gnome!!  I colored the image with Copics, added some sparkle to the cupcake with clear Wink of Stella, then fussy cut it.  I created the background by carefully sprinkling a few dots of six different colors of Color Burst to a sheet of watercolor paper, then I used a water brush to spread the color out.  The sentiment die is from My Favorite Things.

Color map for the Gnome

Yellow - Y13, Y19

Red - R24, R29

Orange - YR04, YR09

Green - G02, G05, G09

Blue - B21, B23, B26

Violet - V06, V09

Brown - E74, E77, E79

Cupcake Liner - Y23, Y26, Y28

Have a great day, and take time to enjoy any cupcakes that come your way!!!

So Thankful For You

Welcome back to my blog!  Today I am sharing another beautiful image from KLM Digital Designs.  This is Nesting Bird that I printed on to  Copic Xpress It cardstock, and then colored with Copic sketch markers and Prismacolor pencils.  After fussy cutting the image I then placed it on the card front that was made with burlap paper, a Memory Box die, and a MFT sentiment.  

Card Recipe 

Leaves - BG93, BG96, BG99

Berries - B63, B69

Light part of bird - E30, E31, E34, PC941 Light Umber

Red Breast - E04, E08

Dark part of bird - E35, E37, E39, PC1082 

Beak - E44, E47, E43

Flowers - Y11, Y13, Y17, E97, E99, E18

PC938 White for highlights

Hey Dad!!!

Today is going to be a scorching 37 degrees here in the Kootenays, and we always hit higher then what they predict where we are located.  Yesterday we were 40 C!!!!  Another few days of hot, hot, hot!!

So to stay cool I have colored up some wonderful images from KLM Digital Designs- they are all included in the Dad and Kids digital stamp available here.

Card Recipe

Skin - E00, E01, E11

Cheeks - R20

Green - E84, E87, E89

Brown - E23, E27, E29

Red Brown - E04, E07, E09

Tan - E30, E33, E35

Fond Memories

2020 has been a difficult year, with Covid 19 encompassing the world, so many things had to be canceled or postponed.  Here in Canada, one of things that we are all missing is our annual carnivals and amusement parks.  This card says it all, Don't Worry, Be Happy next year will be better!! 

This is Balloon Gnome from KLM Digital Designs.  I printed the image onto Copic Xpress It cardstock, colored it with Copic markers, and then fussy cut it out.  To create the card background I used the following Distress Inks - Gathered Twigs, Ground Espresso, Black Soot, Carved Pumpkin, Abandoned Coral, Seedless Perserves - and finished it off with a Carnival die cut from Kindred Stamps.

Card Recipe 

Pants - B21, B45, B34

Red - R24, R29, R39

Shoes - E74, E77, E79

Beard - E70, E71, E74

Hat - E13, E15, E17

Skin - E00, E01, E11

Delivery!!!

When the delivery truck pulls into our driveway, it's always a guessing game as it whose home he is going to pull up to - will it be my daughter's mother-in-law place, or our house!!  And if it's our house, is the package for myself or my daughter!!  I think we all take turns ordering, just to keep the delivery people in business!!!

This is a slider card I designed using the Delivery Gnome from KLM Digital Designs.  I used the Lawn Fawn Large Slimline with Sliders die to cut the card front, and the slider.  For the background I dug through my older stamps, and found a couple of Hero Arts sets that included the houses and trees, that formed my city street.  The entire card is colored with Copic markers., and the sentiment is included with the gnome image.

  

Card Recipe

Skin - E00, E11, E13

Uniform - E39, E59, E79

Boots - T7, T9, 100

Beard - C2

Parcel - E40, E41, E43

Background - B01, B66, G09, G14, G24, N4, N5, N8, Y38, R27, E09, E13, E15, E47

Whipping Up a Birthday Hello

I adore the gnome images from KLM Digital Designs, and if you haven't checked them out you really should.  Not only do they have digital images, but now they are also making Photopolymer stamps, and for the month of July they are having a sale.  

One of the newest images available in both digital and Photopolymer is this adorable Chef Gnome!! I printed in onto Copic Xpress It cardstock, and then colored it with Copic markers. I found the clip art online, and printed it out to make the background, on which I placed the fussy cut colored image. The sentiment is one from my stash.

Card Recipe

Red - R24, R27, R39

White - C2, C00

Skin - E00, E01, E11

Cake - E55, E23, E57

Icing - E39, E59

Whisk Handle - C4, C7

Beard - W2, W3

A Relaxing Card

Over the last few days I have been coloring this beautiful Mandala from KLM Digital Designs.  It was so relaxing to just color and not worry about the shading, although I did do a little bit of shading on a couple of layers.  KLM Digital Designs has a wide variety of images available to color, including the adorable gnomes.  Check out the store here.

Card Recipe

KLM Digital Designs Mandala #1

Copics - BG10, BG11, BG13, BG18, V05, V09, RV06, B18

Tsukineko Shimmer Spritz - Sparkle

Thinking of You

Today I'm sharing a card that I made using the beautiful Lily from KLM Digital Designs.  Both the image and sentiment are part of the digital set that I printed on Copic Xpress It cardstock, and then colored with Copic markers.  I added some Nuvo Jewel Drops in Sea Breeze to replicate raindrops, and used a thin black marker to make stitching lines around the entire design.

Card Recipe

Leaves - YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97

Flower - Y0000, RV11, R83, RV34, Y000, Y00

Stamens - E15, E18

June Wedding

June traditionally is the month for weddings, so today I used two digital images from KLM Digital Designs to make a card to celebrate the event.  I have merged the Bride Gnome , Hometown Church  and a sentiment from the church image to make a one layer card, that I colored with Copic markers.

Card Recipe

Trim on Church - N10 or N4

Roof - N4, N7, N10

Shrubs, stems, leaves, grass - G21, G24, G28

Road - E30, E33

Church itself - C1, C2

Windows - B00

Stained Glass - G14, Y18, R17, B07

Skin - E00, E01, E11

Cheeks - R20

Hat, veil, dress - B0000, B00, 0 Colorless Blender

Flowers - BV13, BV17, centers - Y19

Hair - E21, E23, E25

Sky - BG0000, BG000

A Little Thank You to Our Doctors

Finally had the time to finish these cute cards that I will be sharing with our family doctors!  The image is Medical Gnome available here.  I colored the image up with Copics, then fussy cut it and placed it on the card front that uses free clip art from the net!  The inspiration for the background was not mine, I have seen several people use the same thing on their cards.  

I did color up a few of them......

Shine a Light

Today I am sharing a little encouragement card featuring one of the newest releases from KLM Digital Designs!  This is Lantern Gnome, that I colored with Copics including the entire background!!

Card Recipe  

Boots - E15, E17, E17

Pants - E44, E47, E49

Glow of Lantern - Y13, Y19, Y38, YR68

Road - E51, E53, F55

Grass - BG90, BG93, BG96, BG99

Skin - E00, E01, E11

Lantern - T3, T6, T9

Beard - C0, C1, C3

Hat - B34, B37, B39

Shirt - BG93, BG96, BG99

Trees - C7, C9