Gnome surgery

I don’t know whether it’s my eyesight or what, but so many times when I glue together my paper piecings, there’s paper peeking out where it shouldn’t.  Normally, I create a base that’s a tiny bit smaller than the pieces going on top of it, but apparently I didn’t do that this time, and all my adorable gnomes (a recent freebie from Little Scraps of Heaven) required nip-and-tucks.

See all that blue sticking out from behind the their beards?  It had to go.  Snip, snip, snip.Much better.

I decided to make a few more Christmas cards with them using up some scraps that were on my desk (but didn’t make it into the picture from the other day) and some old and/or unloved crafting supplies.

The leftover papers were really pretty.  I decided to just tape them together then trim them down to size for my A2 cards.Don’t know if you can actually see the tape here . . .
Anyway, the gnomes needed snow drifts to anchor them, so I used my trusty old Creative Memories cutter for that, which I love.  The sentiments come from a very old CTMH Stamp of the Month called Very Merry Christmas.  I love that, too!  What I don’t love is the black card stock.  I have a lot of it and it’s sooo thick!  I can’t use it for layering on cards nor for cutting on my machines because it’s sooo thick!  So I decided to use it for the card base itself, but, man, I have so much of it.  To pop the gnomes up a bit, I used some old half-inch dimensional foam squares.  Don’t love them, either!  🙂

The cards turned out cute, though, probably because of that cute gnome!  They seem to be really popular these days, don’t they?

Evelyn