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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Have a great Monday!
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