Happy New Year

Inspiration

Happy New Year to everyone! Thanks for stopping by - Hope everyone had a safe, happy, fun celebration of the start of 2012!!!

This is the card I made for the sketch club I play along with, and sent to a few folks here in Texas and across the country, and even to Austrailia and Canada! Here's the sketch:

Ingredients

Note: Finished card size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Paper

Basic Black (SU!)	5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored at 4 1/4", and 2" x 5 1/2", and 2 1/8" x 3 1/8"
Tempting Turquoise (SU!), or Certainly Celery (SU!)	1 1/2" x 5 1/4"
All Dressed Up designer paper (DCWV)	2 3/4" x 5 1/4"
Whisper White (SU!)	2" x 3" (2 pieces)

Stamps

A Brand New Year (SU!)

Holidays & Wishes (SU!)

Ink

Basic Black (SU!)

Versamark (Tsukineko)

Accessories

Fleur De Lis Accents (Spellbinders)

Cuttlebug (Provo Craft)

Round Tab Punch (SU!)

Silver embossing powder (Sweet Stamps)

Silver metallic pen (UniBall)

Marker (SU!)

3-D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives)

Zip Dry Glue

ATG (3M)

Scor-Pal

Rotary Trimmer (Fiskars)

Instructions

BASE CARD

Cut a piece of black card stock measuring 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", score at 4 1/4" and fold.

MAT LAYER

Cut a mat of turquoise or green card stock measuring 1 1/2" x 5 1/4" and mount on the left side of the card front. Cut a mat of designer paper measuring 2 3/4" x 5 1/4" and mount on the right side of the card front. Cut/emboss a fleur de lis border from black card stock, and mount over the seam between the two pieces of the mat layer on the card front.

CELEBRATE IMAGE

Stamp the celebrate image on a piece of white card stock measuring 2" x 3". Use the silver pen to fill in the champagne bubbles, and fill in the letters of the word "FIRST" with a SU! marker that matches the paper of the left side mat layer (green or turquoise). Mount the image on a black mat, measuring 2 1/8" x 3 1/8", and mount on the designer paper area of the card front.

SENTIMENT

Stamp the sentiment in Versamark ink on white paper, and emboss with silver embossing powder. Punch out with the Round Tab punch, and mount in the upper left corner with foam squares.

Thanks for stopping by, and again I wish you the very best in the coming new year!

Shiny New Year

Inspiration

Happy New Year!  Here’s a card designed based on the Splitcoast sketch challenge #312 from 12/22.  A nice simple layout that fits the occasion nicely.

I always like to use metallic paper for the New Year greetings I send – it fits a mood for shiny celebration.  On this one I used a copper metallic paper, and I found a patterned paper a coppery accent, too.  The image is embossed with glossy clear powder that adds a little shine. All the shine makes a photo of the card a little tougher!

Ingredients

Paper

Note: finished card size is 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”

Basic Black (SU!)	a) 4 1/4” x 11, scored at 5 1/2” b) 2 1/4” x 4 1/4” c) 2 1/8” x 3 1/4”
Castle Copper (Wassau Royal Metallic)	4” x 5 1/4”
The Natural Stack (DCWV)	2” x 4 1/4”
Very Vanilla (SU!)	2” x 3”

Ink

Brilliance Graphite Black pigment ink (Tsukineko)

Stamps

A Brand New Year (SU!) 

Accessories

Clear embossing powder (Stampendous); Heat Gun; Chocolate SPICA pen (Imagination International); Black eyelets; Crop-A-Dile (We R Memory Keepers); Clockworks 5” x 7” embossing folder (Provo Craft); Cuttlebug (Provo Craft); Scor-Pal; Adhesive Transfer Gun 714 (Scotch); Rotary trimmer with straight blade (Fiskars); Scissors

Instructions

Image

Using the black pigment ink, stamp the image on the vanilla panel.  Cover in clear embossing powder, and shake off the excess.  Heat until glossy.  Color the bubbles with the glitter pen.

Assembly

Emboss the copper panel using the embossing folder and the Cuttlebug.  Set the 3 eyelets in the lower right corner. Mount the copper panel on the base card.

Add the mid-sized black paper across the card above center, and mount the patterned paper onto it.

Mount the smallest black panel vertically toward the left, and add the image on top of this last black panel.

Final Notes

Inside / Envelope

For the inside, I cut another copper panel (4” x 5 1/4”), and a vanilla panel (3 3/4” x 5”) and layered them on the inside.

I wish you all the best of everything in this shiny, new year! Thanks for stopping by.