BPM/IBFS: No Place like Gnome in the Fall

Welcome back to Paper Play, friends!

Autumn is my favorite time of the year.  The smell of leaves in the air, cool crisp days, the gorgeous colors, and lots of pumpkins everywhere.  I think it’s especially nice here in New England, and I wish the season lasted longer!

Today’s card celebrates my favorite season with this gnome, Mr. Elderwillow, as the guardian of the pumpkins.  I used the following products to create it:

• Guardian of Autumn Mr. Elderwillow Gnome CLEAR stamp designer by Miss Rach
  
• Digital Download Fall Teal Flowers & Leaves Boho Yellow Ochre Digital Junk Journal
  
• Pumpkin Trio Stencil BPM
  
• Altenew Golden Sunset Crisp Dye Ink Stamps
• Altenew Fresh Leaf and Evergreen Crisp Dye Inks
• Gel Pens
• Orange card stock
• Kraft card stock
• White card stock for stamping & stenciling
• Orange and white twine
• Orange adhesive gems

It was a very simple card to make:

• Stamped, color, and fussy cut the gnome
• Stenciled the pumpkins onto white card stock using all of the inks listed above; started with the lightest colors and worked my way up to the darkest.  Fussy cut the pumpkins, stacked them from largest to smallest, put double sided foam tape on the back to keep them together.
• Stamped sentiment onto printed floral paper.
• Put double sided foam tape onto back of gnome and adhere to floral card panel.
• Adhered pumpkins to floal card panel.
• Adhered floral card panel to orange card panel.
• Adhered orange card panel to kraft card base.
• Placed three orange gems onto card.
• Cut a piece of the orange & white twine and tie around the top of the card.

The gnome’s beard sparkles thanks to white and gray glitter gel pens that I used in coloring him, and his hat band stands out due to a metallic green gel pen.

The pumpkins look great thanks to layering the colors while ink blending.

There truly is no place like gnome in the Fall!

I hope that you enjoyed todays’s post!  Until next time . . . be well!