Gnome Garden Party Picks & Wands - Jenn White

HI EVERYONE! I am back with more fun for you! YAY! I LOVE Garden Parties! How about you? I invite you all to join me in creating party favors & decorations for a fun Gnome Garden Party. Let's get busy inking, stamping, working our scissors & hot glue guns again! Shall we?

Designing & creating party decorations & crafting kits is one of my favorite things to do! Such a happy activity! I am a PARTY MOM for all of my daughters & I am a PARTY MIMI for all of my grandchildren now too! So many fun memories are made creating & crafting together with all of the pieces & bits of business I make with ArtFoamies products.

I love watching everyone's results when they put my created pieces together with their own imaginations. Two of the results recently born from my own imagination are custom decorative cupcake picks & magic wands.  Such fun party favors that spark feel good memories & bring smiles for years to come.

Feel free to be inspired to re-create these with your beautiful imagination & your own ArtFoamies products too.

They are so fun & easy to make by yourself & with your loved ones.

The supplies you will need to get together to recreate these are:

• Tooth picks or food picks
• Bamboo Skewers
• Hot glue gun & glue sticks
• Scissors
• Sturdy White smooth stampable paper that can be easily cut with scissors. I used the smooth side of 140lb hot press watercolor paper, heavy weight cardstock & specialty stamping paper.
• Embellishments such as glitter glues, gems, ribbons & trims are optional.

Here are the ArtFoamies products I used & your shopping list for artfoamies.com :

• ArtFoamies | StampBuddy
• ArtFoamies | ScrapBuddies
• Moonlight Duo Reinkers in Bright Sky, Lunar Lilac, Heavenly Pink, Martian Green, Galactic Green & Solar Flare Orange
• Moonlight Duo Tint & Hue Ink Pads | Assorted Colors in Galactic Green
• MoonGlo Extra Bright Dye Reinkers in Blue Moon, Coral Fire, Pink Crush & Yellow Starlight
• Kae Pea | Gnomely | Foam Stamp (smaller size)
• Kae Pea | Whimsy Wings | Foam Stamps - Set of 2 (back "B" sides)
• Kae Pea | Shroom to Grow | Foam Stamps - Set of 4 (back "B" sides)
• Sandra Evertson | Solar Flare | Foam Stamp (front & back "B" side)
• Cat Kerr | Star | Foam Stamp (front & back "B"side)

I began this project by creating custom inked StampBuddy pads to stamp the ArtFoamies into. These are how I create the colorful ombre & rainbow stamping effects. Choose your favorite colors from The Moonlight Duo re-inkers & MoonGlo re-inkers to do this. The ones I chose are listed in the ArtFoamies product shopping list above. 

GNOME GARDEN PARTY CUPCAKE PICKS

I wanted the Gnomes to have fairy wings so they could fly & a variety of mushrooms to play on.

• I inked & stamped a sheet of Kae Pea's smaller GNOMELY gnomes. 
• I inked & stamped a sheet of Kae Pea's WHIMSY WINGS on the "B" side. YES! YOU CAN USE BOTH SIDES OF YOUR ARTFOAMIES! BONUS!
• I inked & stamped a few sheets of Kae Peas SHROOMS TO GROW on the "B" side onto some 12" x 12" sheets of specialty stamping cardstock paper.

I love the variety of colors I can get with my custom inked StampBuddy pads don't you? So pretty!

I cut all of the stamped images out by hand which only took about an hour or so.

Next I used my hot glue gun & glue sticks to attach the wings to the Gnome's bodies. I then hot glued a wooden tooth pick to the back of the flying Gnome.

• Be sure to hot glue another flying Gnome on the back to so both sides are pretty. I did this with the mushrooms too!
• Make sure to glue the toothpick low enough on the bottom backs of the Gnomes & mushrooms so your toothpick stem will be extending out enough to insert into the cupcakes.

You could also add these to your INDOOR plants & INDOOR fairy gardens too! They definitely can be used for more things than just cupcakes & garden party foods!

GNOME GARDEN PARTY FAIRY WANDS

I also used some of the small winged gnomes I created on the wands! THESE ARE SO FUN FOR IMAGINARY PLAY! YAY! I love layering, dimension & embellishment. How about you?

These wands were made by layering fussy cut pieces of stamped ArtFoamies! ARE YOU READY? LET'S MAKE ONE TOGETHER!

First I inked up a bamboo kabob skewer by rolling it over one of my custom rainbow inked StampBuddy pads & set it aside to dry. I then inked up Cat Kerr's STAR Artfoamie & Sandra Evertson's SOLAR FLARE Artfoamie with the Galactic Green Moon & The Maker Moonlight Duo Tint & Hue ink pad.

To make both of the layered sides of one wand you will need to ink & stamp two of each the "A" side & the "B" side of Cat Kerr's STAR for a total of 4 pieces. You will need one of each of the "A" side & the "B" side of Sandra Evertson's SOLAR FLARE ArtFoamie. For a total of 2 pieces. I stamped them on the smooth side of 140lb watercolor paper.

I then used my scissors to cut them out.

 

I stacked the cut out, stamped images & looked at how I wanted to layer them before I hot glued the layers together. I wanted them to look like a layered glowing, sparkling star & forest greenery all at the same time.

I hot glued all of the layers together & one by one.I then hot glued the bamboo kabob skewer, SHARP POINTED SIDE UP in between the 2 layered stacks. One on each side makes the wand pretty on both sides!

 

I hot glued two of the winged Gnomes I created earlier in the center of each side of the wand.

I finished it off by adding some sparkling iridescent glitter glue to all of the points for a magical effect!

Here's a finished wand awaiting some shimmer and shine!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorials & have lots of fun with them! Please feel free to put your own spin on these ideas. I would love to see the creations I inspired! Be sure to share photos of them with me.

It makes me so happy when you play & create along with me. 

Don't forget to leave me a comment in the comments section below so I know you stopped by.
Thank you for your time, your kindness & your love.

 
HUGS! YOU ARE LOVED!

Jenn White

MoonGlo Bright Rainbow HeArtFoamies Valentines by Jenn White

HELLO EVERYONE! This is Jenn White. Thank you so much for joining me on the blog today. This is the second ArtFoamies Guest Designer Blog post of 2021 for the month of January. Be sure to check out the journal cover tutorial Nancy Sheads created for you in the first ArtFoamies blog post of 2021.

I have been having SO MUCH FUN with my ArtFoamies art stamp collection! I have been creating Valentines for a Valentine happy mail swap that is going on in one of my Facebook groups. 

I wanted to try something a bit different than the traditional Valentine colors this year. I have always wanted to try to make my own custom multicolored art stamp ink pads so I decided I would for my first post of 2021. I had so much fun with this there will be many future posts from me using these ArtFoamies StampBuddy foam ink pads I created.

I used a large 8" x 6" ArtFoamies StampBuddy  & a small 3" x 4" Art Foamies StampBuddy. They are available in three different sizes at artfoamies.com. There is also an informative demo video by Kae Pea using StampBuddies for you to watch. Be sure to check it out!

I inked the ArtFoamies StampBuddies up using RubberMoon Moon & The Maker MoonGlo Extra Bright Dye Inks & MoonLight Duo Tint & Hue Ink Refill bottles. They are available at rubbermoon.com in many beautiful colors.

The colors I used are:

• Pink Crush
• Coral Fire
• Yellow Starlight
• Blue Moon
• & Galactic Green

Selection of MoonLight Duo reinkers used for project.

I chose to apply the ink in a symmetrical rainbow pattern on the largest ArtFoamies StampBuddy & a repeat pattern on the small StampBuddy. They turned out so bright & cheerful I cannot help but smile when I gaze upon them. Symmetry & pattern repeat is so pleasing to my eyes.

StampBuddy with inks applied in a rainbow pattern.

I am very thankful & so grateful to have many wonderful Artfoamies foam art stamps to choose from in my storage drawers. I chose many different ArtFoamies to experiment with that I would like to see stamped in a rainbow ombre gradient meld. Heart shapes were obviously chosen first since I was creating Valentines. I chose some others for accenting the hearts & backgrounds for the hearts.

Today's project includes:

• Sandra Evertson | ETERNAL FLAME
• Candy Rosenberg | DRAGONFLY WINGS
• Sandra Evertson | LABYRINTH 
• Sandra Evertson | EX-VOTO HEART
• Sandra Evertson | CUPULA
• Sandra Evertson | FOLK HEART
• Sandra Evertson | SOLAR FLARE
• Sandra Evertson | FLAME TOPPER
• Sandra Evertson | TENANGO OSCURO
• Sandra Evertson | HEART URN
• Sandra Evertson | WING SPAN

Selection of ArtFoamies stamps used for my project.

I stamped all of these ArtFoamies designs on the smooth side of many sheets of 140 pound hot press cotton watercolor paper. (Enough to make 12 of each one for the Valentine Happy Mail swap I signed up for.)

Some of the stamped watercolor papers.

PRO TIP- When you have finished stamping with your ArtFoamies art stamps be sure to clean the ink or paint off of them in a warm water sink with dish soap & a soft foam sponge. Do not let them sit around for hours with ink or paint drying on them.

Cleaning ArtFoamies stamps.

I let the ink on the watercolor paper dry over night. The next morning, l began hand fussy cutting each of the hand stamped art images from the sheets of water color paper with my favorite spring loaded scissors. 

I used strong double sided adhesive tape & double sided foam adhesive tape to layer & assemble each of the Valentines. 

Adhesives!

I had so much fun creating these Valentines! Here are some of the finished Valentines.

Finished Valentines!

If after seeing this blog post you are inspired to create some ArtFoamies Valentines too, please be sure to post a photo of what you create on your Facebook or Instagram account & tag me or ArtFoamies (#artfoamies) in the post so I will be sure to see it. 

I will be back again soon on the blog to share more ArtFoamies creative inspiration with you.
Thank you for your time & your love. I welcome any questions you may have. Please post them in the comments section below & I will respond to you as soon as I am able to. Thank you again!

HUGS! YOU ARE LOVED!
-Jenn White