Free Shipping Today Only & Danish Nisse Punch Art for Color Throwdown

Looking for some challenges to spur me on yesterday, I found a new colour challenge at the Color Throwdown challenge blog:

Black, red and gray immediately made me think of the Danish nisse - Christmas gnomes, so prevalent in Scandinavian holiday decor:

So, I began to formulate how I could create one using punch art! Here's how it turned out:

• The card is not layered, as the single card base really adds to the cleanness of the Scandinavian look. I just added some ink splotches along with some embossed splotches using White Stampin' Emboss Power and the stamp from Timeless Textures.
• The sentiment is from the Christmas Pines stamp set. I really liked the font from this set for this challenge.
• The foliage is from the Pretty Pines Thinlits, die cut from Whisper White, Smoky Slate and Basic Black cardstock, and bow die cut from Real Red cardstock. I also used the Martha Stewart leaf punch.
• The little nisse himself is created from the following punches and put together with Glue Dots: the Fox Builder punch for the body with the haunches trimmed off; the Holly Berry Builder punch for the bow at his neck; the 3/4" circle punch for the head; the Bow Builder* punch for the hat and stripe on the body; the 1/2" circle punch for the pompom on his hat. 
• *I punched out the long loop piece of the bow and cut it in two, one end slightly longer than the other. The longer end, I curved using the 3/4" punch. I punched a 1/2" pompom from Whisper White cardstock and glued it on the end of the hat where the square tab from the bow is at.

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Remember you only have a few hours to respond! Let those who may be buying for you for Christmas know as well and give them my contact info.

Have a great Monday!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Christmas Pines Photopolymer Stamp Set [142049] $43.00	Timeless Textures Wood-Mount Stamp Set [140514] $36.00	Timeless Textures Clear-Mount Stamp Set [140517] $27.00	Basic Gray 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121044] $10.00	Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102482] $10.00
Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045] $10.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $11.25	Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131202] $10.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $11.25	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.00
White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132] $6.75	Heat Tool [129053] $40.00	Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies [141851] $34.00	Big Shot [143263] $136.00	Fox Builder Punch [141470] $23.50
Bow Builder Punch [137414] $23.50	3/4" Circle Punch [119873] $17.00	1/2" Circle Punch [119869] $8.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00