Cheers to 2017!

Happy New Year!  I finished my New Year's cards today so thought I'd post one of them for the latest Casology Challenge:

I had bought this stamp set from Ellen Hutson before Christmas.  It's called "Advent" and designed by Julie.  I loved the blocked, shadowy (is that a word? :) sentiments and knew it would be perfect for a Happy New Year's card.  The champagne glasses were colored with Copics and dotted with a blender pen for bubbles in the glass.  The floating bubbles were stamped in a light blue ink, filled in with Glossy Accents, then sprinkled with Fairy Dust glitter.  The sentiment was stamped in Versamark on a black scrap and heat embossed with white detail EP.

Thanks so much for stopping by ~ Cheers and Happiest of New Years!

Cards in Envy Shiny New Year

Happy New Year, CIE friends!  I hope 2016 is definitely a shiny one for you!  I'm a little late to the New Year's party but I moved over the holidays (not recommended :), and it has taken a bit of time to locate things in the big stack of boxes!  I suppose I'll be "discovering" things for a while!  It also took a few days to actually get connected again...crossing my fingers that it works this time!

Anyhoo, the real reason you're here is to celebrate CIE's challenge to kick off the new year by creating a sparkly and/or shiny A2 card flat enough to fit in an envy.  You can use any theme of your choice as long as your sparkly self shines through!

We hope you'll play along and I wish you and yours a healthy and happy 2016!  Now, back to those boxes...where are those darn socks??

Cards in Envy: Make it a BANNER year!

It's time for another new challenge beginning January 5th over at Cards in Envy and, I don't know about you, but I'm soooo glad to be able to hang out in the Girl Cave after the holidays!  This challenge is to inspire you to make a flat, A2 card that features having a banner on your card.

I'm really looking forward to a new year so I went with a Happy New Year card.  The card base is kraft cardstock (The Paper Studio) and the banners are actually kraft straw toppers that were in a sale bin.  I die cut the banners with the "Typewriter Numbers" die set from Memory Box and die cut them again on gold paper so I could inlay the numbers.  The banners are on gold/ivory twine and topped off with a gold sequin star.

The inside:

 

I randomly punched holes on the inside and lined it with the same gold foil paper on the front.  The sentiment (Stampabilities) is stamped in Delicata Golden Glitz pigment ink.

 

I hope you'll join in the challenge at Cards in Envy and I wish you a very Happy New Year!!!

W2SB Challenge #13: #youchoosetheword(s)

Happy New Year!!!  W2SB has been live for one year and it has been a blast to be part of the I-Team.  I'm looking forward to 2015 and more creative challenges from W2SB this year!  I hope you are too!

January is being kicked off with a unique challenge:  #youchoosetheword(s).  Start with a hashtag and use any words your heart desires! 

For my card, I went with #auldlangsyne.  We all know the song and sometimes it's a little confusing...like the scene from When Harry Met Sally.  Harry wonders, “What does this song mean? My whole life, I don’t know what this song means. I mean, ‘Should old acquaintance be forgot?’ Does that mean that we should forget old acquaintances. Or does it mean that if we happened to forget them, we should remember them, which is not possible because we already forgot them?”

The title of the 1700's Scottish tune by Robert Burns translates to “times gone by” and is about remembering friends from the past and not letting them be forgotten.  I'm going with that :-) and will drink a cup (or glass) of kindness for auld lang syne, my dear,

This image is a great one from Tiddly Inks called "Lily Bean - Happy New Year."  I digitally colored the image and touched it up with Copics.  Of course, what is champagne without bubbles, so gold sequins and clear rhinestones were added to the bubbly.

I hope you'll join in the challenge at W2SB and tell your friends!  Word has it there are going to be some terrific prizes this year {wink, wink}.  Happy New Year!!