Life Is Gourd

 

Hello!  Today I have a card that I created with no other than one of Trinity Stamps gnomes.  This happy little fellow is just pondering life on a Jack o'Lantern.  The name of this set is Life Is Gourd.

I had originally planned to put him on a card that I had cut from the Pumpkin Shaped Card Die Set,  unfortunately, I got carried away ink blending and I damaged the fold.  No worries, I applied what I had done to a piece of plaid patterned paper.  

Once I cut out the pumpkin, I used the Grassy Hillside Border from Lawn Fawn to ink i the grass.  I used Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide Ink.  I also used their Cloudy Stencil to place clouds with Tumbled Glass ink.  I cut the stem from green cardstock and touched up the edges with a little Rustic Wilderness ink.  I tied on a little twine bow to add a little something to the card for dimension.  

Since I cut my pumpkin card at the fold, it was a wee bit flat on that edge, so I thought I would draw the eye away from that area by adding some corn stalks from the Scarecrow Gnome stamp set.  I don't know that it was all that important to do that, so if you don't have that set, the card is just as adorable with the little gourd gnome.  I added a little crow to the top of he pumpkin because - why not?  

I heat embossed the sentiment using the sentiment from the set using white embossing powder.  

All the images were colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

• E53, E55, E57
• T0, T2
• YR24, YR27, E07
• Y35, Y38, YR04 YR07
• E50, E42, E43
• B41, B91, B93
• E00, E02

I am just crazy about my little friend here and he's right - "Life Is Gourd" especially in the fall.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have an amazing day!

Sandy