PFS New Release and a Merry Good Gnome

It is new release day at Picket Fence Studios (this and all links in this post are affiliate links)! I’ve had fun playing with it and opted for blues for my first card this time. I’ve coloured up the Merry Good Gnome and used the matching die to cut him out. Then I popped some foam tape on his pack and put him aside while I was playing.

First I inked up the background in two shades of blue. I stuck with the bottom right side of the card and deliberately made the edges look rough and bold before I used the Paper Glaze Snowdrop White on the snowflakes from the Fancy Christmas Tree blending stencil. While that was drying I cut out two of the Slim Line Giant Christmas Trees. I cut them to different heights and placed them onto the card before gluing the gnome on top. The Animal Crackers A Penguin Christmas has some nice and small sentiments so I used one of those, and the matching die, for a small sentiment in the bottom right hand corner. At the end I placed three shiny snowflakes from Santa’s Cookies sequins mix plus.

You can see that the snowflakes from the sequin mix have a completely different look when the light hits differently. Here they are much more subtle. Loving it!

And a little close-up! See the cool shiny snowflake?

Mo’s Lil Ballerina

I have a fun blue card to share today. I’ve used Lil Ballerina by Mo Manning.

To mix things up a little I’ve made my own background using Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean distress oxides together with an Altenew stencil (aff.link). The enamel dots (aff.link) are also by Altenew and the sentiment is by InkOn3 (and so is the embossing ink!)

Hexagon flowers

Yup, you’re seeing the right thing here. I’m finally back with a new post! I’ve added a few photos to Instagram over the past few months, but not a lot to the blog. That is going to change as I think I will finally have some more time again! First up I have this card I made using a Pinkfresh die to cut apart one of my Altenew colourings. It is the Clematis stamp I’ve used for this. Each hexagon is made up of 4 layers: 3 layers of normal card stock and then this coloured stamp on top.

To finish off the look I added a hello die cut (also Altenew), an embossed sentiment and some pearls (which didn’t photograph well).

RAM’s You’re two

Rachelle Anne Miller is out with a new release today and it’s full of numbers! I chose to use the Two Bears (aff.link) stamp for a birthday card needed for later this month! It is quite handy to have numbers like these for cards for children and I will definitely make more!

I’ve stuck with keeping it simple and converted the big number two into a big balloon! A simple stipe on the side to add a splash of colour before putting the narrower coloured panel on top using foam tape makes up my card today.

RAm hanging stars boy

I do my best to avoid making two cards looking the same. However, there is one exception. If someone wants one of my cards and then another one similar or identical, then I’ll do it. That is the case with this one. Someone wanted the pink version I made earlier this year, but also wanted it in a blue version for a boy. So here it is, using Rachelle Anne Miller’s Hanging Stars!

The text stamp, card base and inks are by MFT Stamps and I’ve used Copic Marker to colour up the image. As always, the enamel dots are by Altenew.

Here you can see the pink and blue together: