CottageCutz: I Dig You

Happy Friday! It's Jeanne today with a card featuring the adorable tomte from the new Gardening release. I learned a few things this week. To me the new tomtes look a lot like gnomes. So I wondered - what is the difference? I found that Tomte is a Swedish word for a sprite that is pretty much the same as a gnome. In Norwegian he would be called a nisse. Very interesting!

Now, on to my card.

As I often do, I started by choosing my colors which I got from the patterned paper I decided to use. This paper is one of my favorites and features a combination of coral, light grey and light blue/green.

I cut the pieces from Calypso Coral, Pool Party and Smoky Slate cardstock along with white. The tomte and accessories use the Flower Power Tomte die and I used the Hat Box w/Flowers die for the foliage.

I edged the beard and mustache in just a bit of Distress Oxide Pumice Stone. I used Distress Oxide inks in Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Tattered Rose, and Vintage Photo to color his face, shoes and shovel handle.

I cut a panel 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches from the grey/white floral. Using the largest of the wide stitched circle frames I cut three from Calypso Coral cardstock and one from the zig zag patterned paper. The third largest of the Stitched Circles fits perfectly inside the frame and I used that as I like the sticthing around the edges. You could also just use the negative from the frame.

The sentiment is heat embossed in white on a half inch strip.

To give some height to the frame I used three corals frame underneath the patterned one. I glued that to the panel and then inset the white circle.

I added my tomte, bird and flower to the circle. I trimmed the strip and glued it directly to the card, adding the foliage. The whole panel is adhered to an A2 card base.

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