There’s gnome place like home… Fun with Lawn Fawn!

Hey everybody! How are youuuuu? I'm so super duper mega excited to share this card today finally! This card came together in parts…and it's finally all done, put together, and photographed and ready to blog! Yeah! (And the dies are finally back in stock!) It's made with awesome new and old stamps that I love from Lawn Fawn. I combined lots of stamps sets and dies to create my gnome home to show you! This card represents me and my husband at home sheltering in place! LOL. The little couple actually looks like us! My husband has been growing a beard for four weeks! – the first time I've seen him with facial hair in the 27 years I've known him! This pandemic is doing weird things to everyone. So here we are in our little mushroom house trying to stay positive. There's gnome place like home my friends…

This card has a lot going on – and I'm posting tons of pictures to show you everything. The finished card is a 5.25 inch square card. I needed more real estate for everything!! There's Copic coloring, die cutting, stenciling with distress inks and glitter. What more could we ask for!? This card began with me wanting to finally use that fun mushroom house die set. So I started there…

 

See – that's us – out on the front porch! Hee hee. We're happy and still smiling and holding hands. Who wouldn't be happy in that mushroom?! The mushroom house is a Lawn Fawn Die Set. I die cut all the pieces from papers in my stash. The top of the mushroom is red and underneath the dots is cream paper. To make the red top stand out more, I actually die cut three layers of red and glued them together. It looks really nice and clean like that!! I also used some white paint splatters on parts of the card.

 

There are lots of little mushroom all around and even a cute snail. Everything was colored with Copic Markers and then I added white gel pen accents and glitter accents. See that fern in the background?? We have one sweet little fern growing in our front yard so I went and cut some for photo props. I'm getting very creative around here since we can't go shopping. 

 

I totally eyeballed this sentiment and thought I had plenty of room to make it fit. WELLLLLLL it was close!!! I used my MISTI to line it up exactly right. Whew. I stamped right over the stenciling of the sun rays. The little window in the house has Unicorn Stickles on it.

 

One of my favorite color combos is red and aqua. So I knew I wanted the little house to have an aqua door. The way the die is designed – the door opens! SO freaking cute. The die set also comes with the little lantern part too. Adorable. I put a red sweet heart on the door. 

 

For the background I used the MFT Radiating Rays Stencil and three colors of yellow Distress Inks… EASY!

 

This photo shows the construction of the background of the card before all the goodies were attached. Hills, sunshine, gingham….

 

Look at that pile! SO much fun coloring everything!!! 

 

I took a photo for Instagram for the Daily Marker 30 Day challenge. It was just the mushrooms and a cute little gnome who lives in my craft room!

 

This is another photo I took for Instagram. You can see what the house looks like before glitter and white gel pen accents and the heart. You can really see how the small details really make all the difference. I hope you will try some of these tricks!

 

 

All the elements and images were attached to the card with foam squares and circles.

 

I added some sparkles to that cute little snail. And oh how I love the details in that crooked chimney. Sigh. 

 

 

 

 

 

Truly, there's gnome place like home! I'm not sure if I will mail this card or not. I might get a cute red frame and frame it for my craft room! What do you think? It makes me happy, so maybe I'll keep it. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! I looooooove this card and I hope it makes you happy too! Maybe I can bring a smile to your face today! I sure hope so. Stay healthy and stay crafty. Love you all! XOXO

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