Sonoran Starfish Designs

Hello crafty friends! Thanks for joining me today. It's time for another Wednesday blog hop for the Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team, and the theme is "Gnomes"! We're using the cutest gnome stamp set in our projects today. On a side note, if you haven't already seen it, Brutus Monroe is having a design team call, so if you're interested in applying, be sure to check out their facebook page or their website to apply! I started out by stamping these cute little gnomes across the bottom of some aqua pigment paper. I stamped them in Raven detail ink with my MISTI, and then stamped over it with embossing ink and used clear embossing powder to set the image. I repeated the same steps with the branches from the Berry Thankful stamp set above the little gnomes. I colored all of the images with Zig markers and a water brush, followed by the background in the sky. I will be honest, my first attempt at the sky came out horrible! I tried to blend a couple of blues tog...

Hello crafty friends! Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate! We do in my house, so for the Christmas hop, I made some Christmas hair bows for my daughters using the gnome stamps! I stamped these cute little gnomes onto shrink film with Raven detail ink, and colored it with alcohol markers and a white Pitt artist pen. For the white beards I used the Pitt pen on the back of the shrink film, so that it didn't cover or smear the little line details in the beards. If you color on the back with the alcohol markers, however, the color shows up very very faintly through the other side, so those I colored on the front. I let the Raven ink dry for a while before coloring, and I did try to avoid the lines, as the alcohol markers will smear the ink! The cool thing about the shrink film is that the lines and the coloring don't need to be perfect, as everything darkens up when it is shrunk down! I fussy cut the gnomes, and again, it's not necessary to be completely...