Happy New Years With Therm O Web

I'm up on the blog over at Therm O Web sharing some fun New Years celebration cards!

I created a shaker using a Glitter Dust Deco Frame!  And made my own "bits" for it!

And of course there's some rainbow goodness because why not??

And the Cheers Adhesive Transfers were perfect!

I hope you'll join me up there for all of the details!

Thanks for stopping!  Come again soon!

 

Happy New Year With A Jillian Vance Design!

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with this one!  If you'd like more details and links you can hop on over there and give us a visit!

Thanks so much for stopping and come again soon!

 

New Years With A Cool Friend - A Jillian Vance Design

Welcome back!  Today I'm sharing a New Years card I created using the A Cool Friend stamp set!  I knew I wanted to create a New Year's card with this guy and was having a hard time deciding what that might look like, so I just stamped him and started coloring his body with my go to (BG0000 and the blending pen) and it came to me that he'd probably be wearing a fancy outfit for New Years so when it came time to color his hat and scarf I chose a gold and silver pallet.

I used some yellows for the gold spaces (Y28, Y26, and Y21) and cool grays for the silver spaces (C5, C3 and C1) and when I was done coloring I added some gold and silver Wink of Stella and added some extra clear over the top for extra sparkle!

Once I had him colored up the rest of the card just fell into place... of course I'd use some black and then lots more gold.  I cut a snowflake (once from some gold mirror cardstock and once from black cardstock and stacked them for dimension).

 I built my sentiment using the Headline Type Alphabet cut from the same gold and black as the snowflake and a sentiment from the Christmas Blessings sentiment set.  I decided to emboss the Happy New Year part in white to balance the white from my cool dude.

I'm playing along with a few challenges with this one!  Over at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge and the Monday Challenge the theme is party!  And at Double Trouble, it's Anything Goes with a twist of New!  Check them out!

Thanks so much for stopping!  Wishing you all of the best for the coming New Year!  Enjoy and Be Safe!  See you next year!

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Happig New Year! - Miss Ink Stamps

I had a lot of fun with this one!  I started with the background, using the Circular Harlequin Stencil... quite possibly my very favorite stencil of all time!  I will be sharing how I created this background over on the Miss Ink blog in January so stay tuned for that!

I stamped a bunch of images from the Punny Farm Pigs stamp set, including a lot of the cute little streamers onto some Copic friendly paper and then used my Scan N Cut to cut them all out.  I normally prefer the dies, but knew I wanted a lot of the little streamers so I decided the Scan N Cut was the way to go for this one.

I colored them all with my Copics and laid them out on the card before attaching them using various thicknesses of foam tape.  I added some shimmer to the balloons using two different brands of shimmer pens.. I love how the camera caught the shimmer in this pic!  It's almost magical looking!  And finally I added the sentiment built using the Season's Greetings set along with part of a sentiment from the Punny Farm Pigs set... I love mixing and matching to create just the right sentiment!

So fun!!!  I love those cute little piglets!  And they look like they really know how to party!

Hope you enjoyed your visit!  Come back tomorrow for more fun and inspiration!

Casual Fridays - Happy New Year!

I'm up on the CAS-ual Fridays Blog today and wishing all of you the best in the coming year!  "May the Best of Your Todays Be The Worst of Your Tomorrows!"...my wish to you.. compliments of Jason Mraz!  

Today I'm celebrating with a little "Coffee"?  Maybe... or maybe not!..lol!  Sometimes my coffee cup doesn't necessarily contain coffee....

As I was looking through my coffee sentiments for my last card using this cup, I stumbled on "Possibly Vodka" from the Cup of Coffee Stamp Set and the idea for this card was born!  I started by cutting my layers.  I knew I wanted Black, White, Silver and Gold for a New Years card.  I cut my Bubble Box layer in black cardstock and then dry embossed it with a folder to play along with the final Friday Challenge that runs through tomorrow.

Then I decided to Jazz up my Coffee Cup Fri-Die with some foil.  So I cut the cup from some Thermoweb Black Toner Paper which is simply paper you can buy that is printed all black with Toner.  It's fun to die cut shapes from and then apply foil.

    The foil will cover the entire piece because the paper is covered in Toner (like from a laser printer).  Some people foil with adhesive, but my favorite way is to foil using my Minc machine or you can use a laminator.  I placed my cup die cut with the toner side facing the "back" of the foil I was using and then inside my transfer folder.  You can also use parchment paper as a transfer folder.  You then feed it through whatever heat machine you choose to use and when it comes out, you peel back the foil and the colors have transferred to the die cut!

The Brutus Monroe Thermoweb Dry Brush Transfer Foil I used was perfect with some silver, black, and gold!  I foiled the inside cup piece (where the coffee or other liquid would be) using some gold foil.

I chose the Taylored Expressions Snowfall Embossing Folder because I thought it also looked a little like bubbles.. and I didn't mind that the white core of my paper broke through in spots because I felt it made them look even more like bubbles!  Then I layered all of my pieces, popped up the cup, and cut a few of the Jumping Jacks die cuts from some purchased foiled cardstock in gold and silver and scattered them around along with some sequins!

So... yeah.  It might be coffee... or possibly vodka... maybe even champagne!  Either way, it's a celebration in a cup!  I hope you've enjoyed this non-traditional New Years Celebration and hope that whether you are out on the town with lots of friends or relatives or on your couch sipping some coffee with one or two of your favorite people (and/or furry babies...lol!) that you enjoy your evening ringing in the New Year!  Personally I'm in Arizona, but originally from the Buffalo area.  We're two hours behind so I'm thinking we may celebrate Buffalo New Years and call it a night!...lol!

AND if you're signed up for the CAS-ual Fridays newsletter you may know that there is a fantastic end of year sale going on right now!  Everything that is in stock in the shop is already marked at sale prices for at least 19% off!  There are some really great deals available there and no code is needed for these sale prices!  And to make it even better you can use one of the DT codes to save even more!  Mine is below or you can use the code of whatever DT member inspires you!

And you've still got until tomorrow to play along with the final Friday Challenge!  Let's give this long running challenge a proper send-off shall we?  And don't forget to make a stop at the DT's blogs to say thanks for all of the inspiration!

I'm also playing along with Anything Goes over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!  You should check it out!

Celebrating the New Year with The Cutting Cafe

So yeah... I know it's not Christmas yet... and no... I'm not done with all of my cards.. or shopping... or decorating....or baking yet...lol!  BUT!  Here at the Cutting Cafe we won't be back with another DT post until after the holidays including New Years so here's my wish for you... I hope that the universe brings you all of the love, happiness, and peace in the New Year your soul can hold!

Today I used the Happy New Year Word Shaped Card.  I just love the shaped cards available at the Cutting Cafe and there are so many!  And if you're looking for something to help you celebrate the New Year click here and see the many New Years themed sets that Regina carries in the shop!

Shaped cards can be tricky to decorate... so you can leave them plain because what an impact just with the shape and the papers you use... but I like to find a spot where there's enough room to embellish, but it won't get in the way of the word.. 'cause there's always a spot... and this is where I put mine.  I used a beautiful fabric flower that Yvonne Yam sent me as part of a prize package from Lessology before I was on the Design Team.. I've been saving this one for something special!  I also used some of my barely there gold mesh ribbon.. some leaves and other die cuts I had laying on my table-extras leftover from previous projects and some gold sequins..

These papers are from SEI and a friend was cleaning out her stash and she gave me this pad and this stripe was perfect because of the gold stripes it had running through it ... I thought it would be just right for a New Years Celebration!  And see how I decorated the inside but again, strategically placed it so only a few bits and pieces show through that could be part of the outside decorations....

But really the inside has its own party going on!  I added an extra layer of vellum on the inside for fun.. it had those pretty gold polka dots and I thought it would add to the fun.  Snowflakes to peek through.. a leftover part of a doily.. a sentiment from an old old CTMH set that is now retired  on the same background paper from the front and in between the letters was enough space for some gold shimmer trim.

Happiness to you and yours from all of us hanging out over at The Cutting Cafe!  Be sure to check out all of the Design Team makes... head over to the Cutting Cafe Blog on the 21st to hop through and have a chance to win some files!