Joy to the World

 A couple months ago, I won the chance to be a guest designer for CRAFT Challenge Blog.  This challenge is the one I get to design for!!  Yippee!!  The challenge is "Christmas in July" and the two amazing sponsors are The Cutting Cafe and Dr. Digi's House of Stamps.

I am using an image from Dr. Digi's House of Stamps and here is my card for your inspiration:

I thought using this gnome as a Christmas image was a bit of fun, so I colored him up to look a bit like Santa.  And he is "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."  Now that I say that, I wish I had added a Christmas tree; that would have been so fun!!

I used some scraps of patterned paper and a snowflake border die cut that was in my bits and pieces stash.  The silver stars also were in the stash.  To go with the music theme, I embossed the base panel with a music score embossing folder.  It added so much interest to all that white space!

Supplies:

Stamps: Dr. Digi's House of Stamps "Tony I Gnomey" digi; Papertrey Ink "Just Sentiments: Be Merry" sentiment

Dies: Memory Box snowflake border; Verve stars

Darice embossing folder

Challenges:

Cards Galore Challenge #137--anything goes

Pattie's Creations #231--anything goes

Crafter's Cafe Blog #321--anything goes with the optional twist: Christmas in July

Creative Inspirations--stars AND/OR stripes

Craft Rockets #127--Christmas in July

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 #307--sketch

Moving Along With the Times #180--masculine

Crafty Gals Corner #268--fill in the blank-- . . . in July (Christmas)

613 Avenue--anything goes with the optional twist: any holiday

Creative Fingers Challenge #305--anything goes

Make My Monday #256--embossing

Di's Digi Stamps--Christmas in July

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #258--anything goes

Paper Shelter--anything goes