C hristmas gnome with light up house
Project Recipe
Cut Real Red cardstock 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Score at 4 1/4”. Fold on score
Cut Real Red 3 1/2 x 3”
Cut real red. 3/4 x 4”
Cut Whisper White 5 1/4 x 4 (inside)
Cut Whisper White. 3 3/8 x 2 7/8”
Scrap of white for house
Scrap of white for gnome
Cut Designer paper 5 1/4 x 4”
Add to the card front.
Cut Crumb cake 3 3/8 x 2 7/8
Using the 3 3/8” whisper white, sponge balmy blue on the top half .
Cut the piece of crumb cake in mound shape start on right side at 1 1/8, up to 1 1/2” in middle, down on left side to 3/4”.
Stamp a few tiny grass clumps (My meadow) in pear pizzaz.
Stamp a few rocks (my meadow) In crumb cake.
Using the crumb cake mound, line up with bottom of white piece and draw a light pencil line following the top of the mound.
Stamp larger grass along pencil line in pear pizzaz ink.
Stamp gnome house on scrap of whisper white. Color house and cut out house without walkway. Early expresso and soft suede, red door, green leaves.
Using an exacto knife cut out window in the door, attach a small square of vellum behind the window.
On the white piece with grass.
Using one battery, hold it in the bottom right corner and fold the corner up to cover the battery. CAREFUL NOT TO FOLD ABOVE PENCIL LINE ON RIGHT SIDE.
Using the circuit pen draw a solid circle on left side of corner fold, then draw a line across and up to just below where window will be. Draw a solid oval with a parallel line back to solid circle (see picture). Draw another solid circle to the right of fold. Put battery on top of circle to left of fold, Add tiny strips of adhesive strips to hold battery in place.
Add light sticker with triangle pointing right covering the oval.
Fold corner over battery. Light should light up. If not go over lines again to make sure circuit is complete.
Add dimensionals to back of crumb cake (try not to cover circuit lines)
Fold corner over battery, attach crumb cake piece to white.
Add dimensionals to gnome house and attach at top of mound.
Stamp gnome on white scrap color and cut out. Add 2 dimensional one on top of other to top of hat.
Glue bottom of gnome to crumb cake and stick hat down.
On strip of Real red cardstock, stamp sentiment in versamark and sprinkle with white embossing powder, heat set. Slide into banner punch and punch on each end.
Add dimensionals and add to cardfront.