I admit I finally joined in the gnome craze, because My Favorite Stamps have the cutest gnome stamps. I stamped and colored the gnome with Parkoo alcohol markers and then I swear I was trying to join a MFT challenge using Orange, Red, Blue and Yellow...but I'll be darned where I saw the challenge. MFT runs a color and sketch challenge, but these colors weren't either of the last two challenges. So, basically, this little guy just wanted to be on a card and not in a challenge!
I made the sky by using water and the beautiful blue in my Viviva Colorsheets to smoosh the card panel into. Then I fussy cut the scene I made, popped it on the dry background and added a rainbow from Sizzix, hand cut some clouds (cuz I was too lazy to find the cloud die) and added a sentiment from Taylored Expressions. I'm an affiliate for the colorsheets, but I looove how handy and saturated these are. I keep them in a pencil case with a water brush and I'm good to go at a moment's notice.
I did manage to make a balloon card for the November MFT balloon birthday project challenge. These dragons from MFT are stinkin' cute and I added the background castle and sun/cloud stamps. I drew in the balloons and hills. I used my fave Prismacolor pencils to color and used white gel pen and black marker to differentiate the grass.
Do you enjoy challenges? Sometimes they're the only things that motivate to make things—because, one, prizes and two, there's a specific theme, company, color scheme, etc. I've had these stamps for a long while and finally used them because of the real and imagined challenges. ha!
Happy Friday!
Chark
