Cottage Lane Stamper

It's gotten me a little bit to get into the Christmas card making mode and right now I'm in a gnome mood. This set came out last year with the dies and then in the spring mini they came out with a spring set. I bought both sets and the dies go with both sets. They've been retired, which is too bad because they are so cute. I posted a gnome card the other day. This morning I woke up around 3 and couldn't get back to sleep so I thought I would play with the gnome sets again. I also used the retired paper for both cards as backgrounds and this first card I also used the dies to cut out three of the gnomes. I die cut the gnomes, the die cut some rectangles and layered those on card stock that coordinated with the gnomes hats. I used a little Night of Navy ribbon and layered it all on Night of Navy. I embellished them with some little snowflakes. The inside I stamped the Christmas greeting and another little gnome with a lantern. I also used an ink that was retired sev...

Our third card this month has more of a winter theme.  This new stamp set, Winter Woods, was intentionally created to pair with our Rooted in Nature stamp set as well as our beloved set Lovely as a Tree. We used Crumb Cake for the layers and also to stamp the trees,  The trees are stamps twice, from right to left to fill in the whole card space. The sentiment is from a retired Paper Pumpkin set, but you could use anything here.  I also stamped a little pine cone in Crumb Cake and then embellished with 3 epoxy dots. I tried tucking the trees behind the snow bank but I like this better.  Anyway, I love the beautiful white "birch" trees.  I bet if you drew little lines on the trunks it would make it look more realistic but I didn't think of that until just now. Again I used the Multipurpose Adhesive sheets on the trees.  So much easier to attach the trees.  See my post on September 19, 2018 for how I found it easiest to apply.  There ...