For the Love of Gnomes & Tea! - Brutus Monroe February 2023

Hello Friends!  Thanks for stopping by the Blog today.

I have been super busy creating and haven’t taken a minute to post yet.

Now that we are into March, how did that happen, I'm going to share the

February collection from Brutus Monroe is full of a combination of gnomes, mushrooms, teapots, cups, and coordinating accouterments!

I love this card because I like the idea of this little gnome holding a string of hearts...like the kind you would make in elementary school where you cut an arch into a folded piece of paper and when you opened it up, it was a heart.

I used Aqua Pigments to watercolor him and covered the little heart in Pink Candy Coat.  And a pun for a sentiment, my favorite!

The next card is using the February Die Cut of the Month set.

More gnomes, but I added the girl gnome and have them cheering coffee cups.

Well, in my mind, it's coffee!

When I do a certain group of cards on the same day or together,

I usually have a set color palette in mind and usually have colors mixed or

on the palette so I like that these 3 cards, look like they could all be part of a set.

In this final card, I watercolored the background over heat embossing cups I stamp all over. That is one of my favorite techniques with heat embossing. I wanted it to be pretty simple with a busy background, so I used the simple teapot and added a little row of hearts around it.

After, I took one set of photos, I decided to add color to the teapot,

so in this photo it's pink! I die-cut a dimensional banner to

stamp the sentiment onto.

Thanks for stopping by!  The Brutus Monroe Spring Release, Spring Fling just happened and there are so many lovely pieces that you can use in a million ways! And the Design Team has created some amazing projects.  Go to the Brutus Monroe site, HERE, for all the inspiration!

Below is the list of all the products I used and links to where you can buy them.

( Some of these are affiliate links...)

A Hello Card - Brutus Monroe February

Hello everyone!  Thanks for stopping by today and wishing you a great start to another week!

This is a card project from the February inspiration kit. This kit has an adorable stamp and die set called Mushroom Garden,"

I knew I wanted to use the chroma glazes in metallic colors. I used some washi tape to mask off a jagged line down the card front t make it look like a hill. I wanted it to look like slices of sediment layers that the mushrooms were growing out of.

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I also thought that leaving the stamped images in black it made them stand out even more for their shapes and spots.

I used a piece of the 6x6 paper pad called tea party as a background for my card. 1 also heat embossed a sentiment from the set and added it to one of the clever sentiment strips that are perfect for everything.

One of my favorite things to do these days is to use black ink, like the brutes Monroe Raven ink, that will stay sticky and then use embossing powder in "Icicle."

Thanks again for checking out the card. Please feel free to comment and communicate with me!

( Most items used are listed and linked below.

They are part of an affiliate and no one but myself benefits from that. )

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