Challenge 199 - Christmas in July

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Greetings! It's Kathi here with a Christmas card for the Christmas in July challenge 199. The card was created with one of the Santa Gnomes from the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs.

Santa Gnome with Gift Sack was stamped with Memento ink, fussy-cut, and edged with a black marker.

I was debating whether to place him in front of a house or on top of a chimney. Obviously the chimney scenario won. Then the scene took on a life of its own. I traced a chipboard house onto white cardstock, fussy-cut the house, colored it with dye inks, then detailed the bricks and siding on the house.

The windows and door were die-cut from white cardstock. The window frames were left white, but the panes were colored with Copic markers and inlaid. The door and panels were colored with Copic markers, inlaid, then matted onto white cardstock to become a frame. 

White cardstock was die-cut with some corner border dies, detailed with a clear glitter gel pen and layered in back and in front of the house on a white speckled navy cardstock panel. Two shades of green cardstock were cut with a fir tree cutting die and added to the scene.

The "naughty or nice?" sentiment and the snowflakes are from an ancient QuicKutz Rub-on set (circa 2005). The sentiment was added to a white speech bubble die-cut. The snowflakes were added to the scene. Apparently I decided that more was more.

I adhered the card front to a red 5" x 7" card and called it done.

You should definitely join the Christmas in July Challenge 199 for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

Thanks for visiting today!