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Tuesday, 18 January 2022

No Place Like Gnome :)

Well hello lovelies. I realised that I haven't blogged in aaaaaages (naughty naughty) but I hope this post finds you all well and staying safe.

I thought I'd share a little gnome creation I made using one of the fab Woodware stamps.

This one is Little Gnome designed by Francoise Read and I love him.

And this is what I did. He was coloured with Copics and I've added some Glossy Accents to the hearts. You can't really see it here but on the last pic you can see how shiny they are.

I added some spots using a white Posca Pen and some faux stitching using a black Micron pen. I also outlined the image using clear glitter.

Some things never change - I couldn't help myself and I had to add a nice black and white gingham bow and a heart button!! You can really see how shiny the hearts on in this pic.

Right well I do have quite a few cards which I haven't yet blogged (as you can imagine lol), so I'll add them shortly and I'll see you again soon.

Huggiest of hugs, Dawny xx

Friday, 22 January 2021

No Place Like Gnome

Hello lovelies - hope we are all OK today and that nobody has been too badly affected by these dreadful floods.

So I'm sharing my sweet Polkadoodles Gnome Is Where The Heart Is card today - I think I mentioned it yesterday.

I cannot tell you how much I love these images :)

And I LOVE colouring them - I could do this all day.

I coloured her with quite a few Copics and then went over a few places with my polychromos pencils.

I actually remembered to write down the pens I used and they were -

Skin - E000, E00, E11, E13, E50 R00, R05

Clothes & shoes - C00, C0, C3, C4, C5, C9, R00, R05, R17, R27, R59

Flowers - Y03, Y08

Plantpot - E000, E13, YR00 YR20

Grass - YG00, YG03, YG95

Grounding C00, C1

I might have got the colours mixed up for the plant pot - I'll have to check!!

I stamped out the heart from the set then coloured it with R27 and cut it out. Then I covered it with Tonic Studios Crystal Glaze before adding some Posca Pen dots.

I also gave her a Posca Pen polka dot hat and ribbons because I like her to match!!

That's rather good alliteration there!!

And you'll notice that the gingham ribbon is back :)

Didn't take long did it lol.

I stamped out the flowers then cut them out (badly - I am rubbish at cutting out) and then doused them with glitter. I also added glitter to the flowers on the actual image.

I shouldn't have favourites, but ....

Right I better be off.

I'll be back tomorrow with some Easter goodies and some very bright and zingy colours.

I thought it would cheer us all up a bit.

I'll add my affiliate links below and I'll see you then.

Take care and stay safe and well xx

Polkadoodles Link -

Gnome Is Where The Heart Is

Tuesday, 17 November 2020

A Bit of Colouring For a Change (no, really, it's been ages).

Well, it's been a while, it's true.

But I woke the pens up at the weekend, and also the Polychromos pencils!!

I figured that seeing as I had 2 new eyes, I might as well try them out. And I'm delighted to confirm that I can now really actually see to colour, wooohooo!!

And this is what I did.

The gorgeous image is a Polkadoodles Gnome and he is the North Pole Gnome (jeez I adore Nikky's images). And this one is on offer at the mo so check it out my lovelies!!

He is so easy to colour and I have to confess that I cased Nikky's colours from the packet lol.

I used a mixture of Copics and Polychromos pencils to colour him and these are the Copics I used -

Gnome -

C00, C01, C02, C03,C04, C05,C07, C09, R02, R05, R17, R27, R59, W00, W01, W03, W05

Holly -

R05, R17, R27, R59, YG0000,YG00, YG01, YG03, YG95, YG99

Grounding-

C00, C01, BG00, BG01, BG02

Once I'd finished with the pens, I just added some depth using the pencils. I'm planning on doing a video for this technique soon so stay tuned. It just adds a little something extra to your images I think.

I made the cute little pine cones using one of the dies from the Tonic Studios Designer Choice 13 - Luxurious Lace, and there is a vid coming within the next week on how I did these - hope you like them.

I added a bit of glitter to them and you can just see it catching the light.

IRL it looks quite pretty!!

That beautiful border is again made with the Designer Choice Lace set. I added some faux stitching to the border, paper, image and sentiment to kind of bring it all together.

Those papers - swoon - are Polkadoodles Christmas Holidays Blessings and they are part of a 6x6 paper pack. They work so well with the gnomes. And the sentiment I used is from the Polkadoodles Christmas Fishes stamp set.