PPC&F - KLM Designs - Snoozing Gnome

 Hi crafty friends!  This week, KLM Designs is sponsoring us over at Passionate Paper Creations & Friends!  I had never worked with their designs, so I was super excited to color up this adorable Snoozing Gnome digital image! 

This cute guy was truly a dream to color up!  Not only had I never worked with their designs, but I had also never colored a gnome.  I colored him in using Copic Markers (colors listed below).  I was a bit intimidated by his beard, as hair is such a huge challenge for me, but I am thrilled with how he turned out.  I wanted the mushroom to have polka dots, so I turned to an old school technique that I haven't used in more years than I want to admit to.  

I got out some regular old household bleach and a pencil with an eraser and carefully dabbed the eraser into the bleach and then daubed it straight down onto the mushroom.  This was terrifying, because spilled bleach would have destroyed all that hard work!  Once I was finished, I cut him out and set him aside. 

I die-cut a white panel and stamped a sentiment from The Greeting Farm Cute Script stamp set.  I also die-cut a plaid panel and a black panel and adhered the three panels together and then to the card base.  I added my gnome image and finished the card off with a bow of black and white baker's twine.  I love how the card turned out!

Colors Used:

Hat - YR07, YR04, YR02, YR00

Shirt/Socks - G07, YG25, YG11, YG00

Pants/Boots - B29, B26, B24, B23, B21

Skin - E04, E11, E21, E00, E000

Beard - N9, N7, N5, N3, N1

Mushroom - E13, Y17, Y15, Y11

Mushroom Stem - E55, E53, E51, E50

Make sure to head on over to Passionate Paper Creations & Friends and check out all of the amazing inspiration from the Design Team!  Oh, did I mention that KLM Digital Designs has a surprise for our members that you will not want to miss?   Not a member?  That's A-OK!  Click the "Join" button and answer the question, so that you can take advantage of the surprise too!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  

Xoxo, Kim

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