Pop-Up Stepper Cards not just for Christmas

 Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you are having a good week. 

Here are the last of the cards that I made for the Crafts-Too Birthday shows on the Craft Store last weekend. 

I thought I would share all the Stepper Fold cards I made. 

Christmas and Penguins. 

Christmas and Gnomes. 

You're a Star. 

A floral birthday card. This cards are easy to put together and can be decorated just how you like. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. I will be back doing comments soon. 

Happy Crafting

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Two Jays Gnomes for Christmas and other occassions

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I hope you had a good weekend. 

I am scheduling this post to show the Two Jays Gnome stamps. Here are the cards I made. 

This is just a simple CAS style card using the stamps. The colouring was done with my Faber Castell Colouring pencils. 

These gnomes are so cute. The trees are from Finleys Trees dies set. I used the Stencil Christmas Sentiments dies for the sentiment. Of course I used the Stepper  Fold card die set. 

Just to show that Gnomes aren't just for Christmas. The  Stepper Fold card die set if very versatile. 

I do like making box cards. It is a great way to showcase the gnomes. 

There is one more set of cards to come on Wednesday. 

Enjoy your week. 

Happy Crafting

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Challenge #83 at the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog - Anything Goes - Sponsor SheepSki Designs

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🥂 Happy New Year 2021 🍾

Let's Hope it is a good one. 

Being the first of the month the new challenge has started at the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog. The theme is Anything Goes and the sponsor is Sheepski Designs. 

I used lots of John Next Door dies to make this card. I used the Foston die set to make the background., Over the top I put some Leafty Flourishes and some tiny butterflies. 

There are many wonderful images is the store. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

This image is called Giant Daises and it is available HERE. I made a background on the computer and I layered the PNG image over the top. The image was coloured with my Faber Castell Polychromo colouring pencils. Aren't these gnomes just so cute? 

This is a cute little card to start the year. I have cut back on my Design Team work. So I am not sure how often I will be posting. I do have another opportunity that has presented itself. If you look at my review of last year the news is buried in there. 

Happy New Year!

Happy Crafting

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A Little Gnome Christmas Card

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Oh boy what a difference a few days makes. First today the NHS tracking app told us we had to self isolate for 7 days and then later we find out from Boxing Day loads of us are going into Tier 4. Roll on more vaccinations. What a strange Christmas and New Year we are all going to have. 

I get rather shy of sharing my own drawings. With all that is going on I thought I would give it another go. Here is the Christmas card I made for my cousin. 

I so love the gnomes that we drew in the Shac Shack with Barbara Gray. I wanted to try one on Kraft Card. So that's what I did. The backing paper was in my stash. The snowflake die came from The Works. 

Here he is. The snow was made with a Posca pen. The gnome was coloured with my Polychromo pencils. 

I know my cousin liked this card. I do like doodling. 

Have a Happy Christmas. It is going to be a strange one this year. 

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Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #81 - Anything Goes - Sponsor Geko Galz

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Thank you for sticking with me for the second post of the day. This one is for Challenge #81 at the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog. The theme of all our challenges is Anything Goes and the sponsor to this challenge is Geko Galz.  Oh boy did we have some fantastic images to work with. 

The set of images I used is called Gnome for the Holidays and it is available HERE.  There were so many images in the set I just couldn't stop making cards. 

The store is a feast of delights. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

Aren't the gnomes cute and they worked so well with my stash. 

This card even recycles an old card. 

I made a Snippets background for this card. 

He is just so cute. I do like red of Christmas cards. 

This is a background I found. I couldn't resist adding Santa and a moon. 

They work on tags too. 

Here is everything together. There are lots of cards for my stash. 

Have a great week. 

Happy Crafting

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Crafts Galore Encore December Challenge - Anything Goes

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Well December has arrived and now that panic starts that there is really not long until Christmas. Today we are hoping to get to a Christmas market in the New Forest. We haven't been to this one before. There are still a few presents to get.

Today the new Challenge starts on the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog the theme is Always Anything Goes. This time we are very lucky to have Oddball Art as our sponsor. The challenge winner gets $10 credit to spend in the store.

I have made a lot of these Z-fold cards this year. I used the Falling Snow Embossing folder to make the snow. I used a coated card stock so it could be sanded back to show the white. I used both the Deer Scenes and the Snow Scenes dies from John Next Door to cut the front  panel and the background. The Happy Snowflakes die set was used for the sentiment and the larger snowflakes. The Winter Trees added some extra interest and there is Santa's Sleigh is in the background both dies from Creative Expressions. 

There are many wonderful images in the store. Click on the logo to be taken there. 

These images come as a pair and they are called Creepy Cute Ol' Gnome Love image 463 and it is available HERE.  I printed them onto Neenah card and they were coloured with Promarkers. They were nice and easy to cut out. 

The gnomes are very cute. They could be coloured in any colours so they would be very versatile. 

I do like to decorate to the bottom of the panels. 

I was very pleased with how this card turned out. I know exactly who to give it to. 

I would like to enter the following Challenges:

Challenge 373 at the I ❤ Promarkers Challenge blog

The November Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges

Challenge 414 at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

Challenge 98 at the Crafty Friends Challenge blog

Challenge 81 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog

The December Challenge at the Die Cut Divas Challenge blog

The December Challenge at Your Scrapbook Place

Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C463

Challenge 116 at the Love to Scrap Challenge blog

Challenge 29 at the Love to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 5 at the Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog

The December Challenge at the Crafty Calendar Challenge blog

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

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Gnomes for Christmas

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How was your weekend? I hope you did something nice. We went to stay in Wells so that we could visit the Crafts 4 Crafters show at the Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet - I had won tickets. On the way there we stopped off to visit Stourhead. The garden was beautiful in its Autumn colours. All in all it was a good weekend.

I bought the magazine with the free Enchanted Corner Gnome outline stamp and die set some time ago. I decided it was time to use this set after seeing so many gorgeous cards on Facebook made with the stamps and dies.

I decided to make A5 cards that are nice and flat for posting. The paper was from my stash. The topper I placed the gnomes on was from a stack from Kanban. I have been struggling to know how to use up these toppers. There are still a lot left. 

The gnomes were stamped onto card with grey memento ink and coloured with Promarkers. I used the dies that came with the set to cut out the gnomes and their hands. 

The sentiment is one from Creative Expressions. 

Here is one of my photos from Stourhead. We were very lucky with the weather the garden was so pretty. We did go back on the Sunday to visit the house. The car park was so busy we had to park some way away in an overflow car park which meant a long walk to the house. 

I made six for my Christmas card stash. This year I don't really know how many I will need but I am going to keep making them. 

Enjoy the week ahead. I know some people are on half term holiday. I have a few things lined up and the drive should be finished. Next weekend is going to be busy but more of that later. 

Happy Crafting

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Isobel Craft Collection - Gnomes

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I hope you are having a good week. Today marks exactly one month to our daughter's wedding. There are going to be a lot more things to post on the page I have created for the wedding  but that will have to wait until after. Some of them are to be surprises. All in all I think my blog is going to suffer I still have quite a bit to do but it is manageable. Somethings can't be done until the last minute. I will blog as much as time allows but it will be rather erratic.

I so enjoyed using the Gnome stamps from the Isobel Craft Collection. I thought I would share another of my creations.

The gnomes are so cute and easy to cut out and use. 

Here they are on my craft desk helping me with the wedding prep. 

The were coloured with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I am beginning to wonder if I could make Christmas cards with them. 

Just a quick post. Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

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Isobel Craft Collection - New Stamps - Gnomes

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How is your week going? We have had some lovely warm weather down here in the south. I am in the process of applying for another job, something which I haven't done for 20 years, oh boy did my CV need updating.

The Isobel Craft Collection is releasing two new sets of stamps Gnomes and Ladybirds. I enjoyed making some cards to show off these new  Gnome stamps.

This is the first card I made with the stamps. I made the background with Distress ink on water colour card. This way I would use water to remove some of the colour. 

The stamps are available to pre-order at The Isobel Craft Collection Facebook page. 

They are very cute these stamps and lots of fun.

I used masks so I could layer the images of the stamps. I coloured them with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. 

This little chap is so cute. 

I love the sentiment that comes in the set. 

I was asked to create a Gnome trail of images of the little guys in different places. This is a root that has been dug up in our garden. 

This is such a cute card. I can't wait to send it to someone. 

Enjoy the rest of the day. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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