This little gnome is easily transformed into a Halloween Wizard by snipping off the jingle bell on his hat and adding some starry designer paper to it instead! He fits in perfectly with the Halloween scene. This card is a little labor intensive, but don’t let that scare you – the results are well worth it!
Cut Cardstock:
- Card Base: Basic Black – 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″
- First layer: Pumpkin Pie – 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″, cut two
- Second Layer: Very Vanilla – 5 1/4″ x 4″, cut two
- Wizard: Scrap of Very Vanilla
- Wizards Hat: Scrap of Brightly Gleaming Designer Paper- Starry pattern
- Tombstones: Scraps of Gray Granite
- Pumpkins: Scraps of Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight
- Bats: Scraps of Black Glitter Paper
Assembly:
Begin by creating the background on which you will build the Halloween scene. Start by punching a 1 1/2″ circle out of a scrap of cardstock to use as a stencil. Save the circle that you punched out.
Place this stencil over one piece of the Very Vanilla cardstock and sponge the circle with Daffodil Delight ink. If you haven’t sponged before, practice on a scrap piece of cardstock. Always bring in your sponge from the side so that you don’t have a big ‘glob’ of ink in the middle of your sponged area. Start with a light touch – you can always add more color as desired.
Now fill in the rest of the background. Begin by holding the circle that you punched out for the moon stencil over the moon. Lightly start sponging around the moon and sky with Misty Moonlight with a clean sponge. Don’t be afraid to make some areas darker than others – the difference in color will give the sky a more realistic look. Using a clean sponge, apply a little Blackberry Bliss ink over some areas of the sky, lightly blending it onto the blue sky. When you are satisfied with the way the sky looks, use a clean sponge to apply Early Espresso ink at the bottom of the piece for the ground.
Using Memento ink, stamp the tree image from the Life Is Beautiful stamp set onto the sponged background piece, going off the left side just a bit. Make sure part of the branch is over the moon to give it a “spooky” look. Also, the tree trunk should be very close to the bottom of the piece. Refer to card photo.
You are ready to make all the embellishments now!
To make the tombstones, cut a scrap of Gray Granite cardstock 1″ wide and another scrap at 3/4″ wide. Trim these pieces with the Lovely Labels punch to look like the top of a tombstone. I used both sides of the punch so that I have different looking tombstones, punching two from the 1″ wide cardstock and one from the 3/4″ cardstock. Trim these so that they are a little over an inch tall, use your discretion.
Use a clean sponge to apply some Gray Granite ink onto the tombstones to give them a weathered look. Use Memento ink to stamp a small spider from the Hallows Night Magic stamp set onto one tombstone. Use a black marker to write “RIP” on another tombstone.
Use the tiny pumpkin dies from the Trio of Tags dies set to crop two pumpkins from Pumpkin Pie cardstock. Fussy cut two tiny circles from Daffodil Delight cardstock to glue to the back of the pumpkins.
Use Memento ink to stamp the Gnome from the Gnome for the Holidays stamp set onto a scrap of Whisper White cardstock. Fussy cut the gnome and snip off the jingle bell on his hat. Color the arms with the Dark Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Blends marker and his boots with the Light Misty Moonlight Blends marker.
Cut a small curve on one side of a small piece of starry paper from the Brightly Gleaming DSP pack so that if fits over the bottom of the gnome’s hat. You may have to do this by trial and error – it took me a couple times to match the edges! Once you have the bottom matching the hat, glue it onto the gnome hat and then fussy cut the excess off so that the hat is now a wizard’s hat! As an alternate way of making the hat, you could ink the hat on the gnome stamp and stamp it onto a piece of the starry Brightly Gleaming DSP, then fussy cut it out and glue to the gnome. You may want to cut the hat a little bigger before glueing it to the gnome, then trim off the excess.
Crop three small bats out of Black Glitter Paper from the Hallows Magic die set.
Let’s put it all together!
Adhere the sponged background piece onto one of the pieces of Pumpkin Pie cardstock, then adhere to the card base. Use Seal or multipurpose glue to attach two of the tombstones, and dimensionals to attach one of them near the tree. Use dimensionals to attach the Wizard to the cardfront in front of the tombstones. Use glue to attach the two tiny pumpkins, one by the tree trunk and one by the tombstone on the right side. Use glue to attach the bats. Refer to card photo for placement of all these embellishments.
Inside:
Use Memento ink to stamp the greetings from the Hallows Night Magic stamp set onto the remaining piece of Very Vanilla cardstock. Stamp two small bats next to the greeting. Adhere the completed piece to the remaining piece of Pumpkin pie cardstock, then attach to the inside of the card.
Envelope:
Use Memento ink to stamp two small spiders or small bats onto the lower left corner of the envelope.
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Very cute with the gnome !!
Thank you Connie!