My One & Gnomely Light Up Valentines Card

 

Hello!!!  I am a huge fan of gnomes and my absolute favorites are always by Trinity Stamps.  I am pretty much "over" Christmas, so I thought it would be fun to do a Valentines Day Card using their fun stamp set My One & Gnomely.  I also decided that it would also be a perfect light up card.

For the background on this card, I used Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Ink.  I did a very light layer to color my cardstock and then used the Layered Hearts Background Stencil from Lawn Fawn.  My hearts are also Spun Sugar ink.  I used a little watered down metallic silver watercolor to spatter the paper to give it a little bit of shimmer.

Next I heat embossed the sentiment using Trinity Stamps' Simply Sentimental: Love stamp set along with black embossing powder.  I was a little nervous placing it directly on my newly inked background but it turned out perfect!

My little friends are colored with Copic markers in the following colors:  

• RV21, RV29, R35, R39 - Red
• RV13, RV14, RV21 - Pink
• C1, C3 - Beard
• Y23, Y32 - Braid
• E13, E23, E25 - Shoes
• R00, R11, R20 - Skin

I cut little heart openings above where I was going to place my gnomes.  I used some heart dies from one of my Lawn Fawn sets, but you could use any die from your stash.  I used a small piece of glittered cardstock on the back cardstock base that the front layer was going to be adhered to.  I taped the three little lights at the very bottom of each heart and adhered the push button mechanism on the lower left corner under where I had stamped "Push Here".  

Once my lights were in place, I used double adhesive sided foam tape to build up space for the light mechanism to work.  Oh goodness!!!  So Cute!!!

I added a little shading below the Gnome's feet to ground them and then added a few more cut out hears to balance it out.  

More details can be found on my YouTube video linked below.

I just love this little card and can't wait to mail it off.  Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a marvelous day!

Sandy