Picture Perfect New Year - SUO Challenges #138

This isn't your typical New Year card, with stars bursting in air, champagne bubbles in hand, and fancy dresses.
This is my New Year -representing change and new life - like New Year's Resolutions.
Although it is snowing and freezing rain outside, look at the card and the New Year looks much more pleasant.  The flowers are wishing you a Happy New Year.

The challenge with SUO was to make a project with a New Year's theme.

Here is mine.  The stamp set will not be available until Jan. 5, 2016

• On a separate piece of paper, the hummingbird was stamped 3 times:  Bermuda Bay, Smoky Slate and Melon Mambo.  A black marker was used to emphasize the eye, and a fine marking pen was used to emphasize the tail and wing feathers.  The bird was cut out by hand and the edges sponged with Bermuda Bay ink.  Some Clear Wink of Stella was brushed on parts of the bird to give it a shimmer effect.

• On another piece of Whisper White, three roses were stamped with 3 colors:  Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, and Rose Red.  The leaves were stamped with Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, and Mossy Meadow.  All were cut out by hand. The edges of the roses were sponged with Rose Red ink, and the leaves with Mossy Meadow ink.

• In the meantime, stars were stenciled using So Saffron ink, on a piece of Whisper White cardstock, This would provide the backdrop for the flowers and bird.
• Once the roses and leaves were adhered to the front of the card, a strip of 1/8" glitter Bermuda Bay ribbon was added to the lower part, and a bow placed at the left end.  Extra leaves are seen falling down the right side and bottom of the card.
• The sentiment, from "Good Greetings" (retired) was cut into 3 words, and each word was placed in the middle of a flower.  Glitter was placed on top of the words.
• The Hummingbird was added using dimensionals - with the beak pointing towards the rose and the sentiment.
• To finish the card, I place gold sequins randomly on the background.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Picture Perfect, Good Greetings (retired)
Inks:  Hummingbird:  Bermuda Bay, Smoky Slate, Melon Mambo
          Roses:  Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, and Rose Red
          Leaves:  Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow
          Stars:  So Saffron
          Sentiment:  Black Memento
Papers: Garden Green, Rose Red, Whisper White
Accessories: Hearts and Stars Decorative Mask, 1/8" Bermuda Bay glitter ribbon, Gold sequins, dimensionals, Wink of Stella glitter brush (clear)

Happy New Year 2016 - The Friday Mashup #237

Merry Christmas Everyone, and may the New Year bring you health, happiness, joy and time spent with family and friends.

To make a New Year's card using the colours gold, silver and black was the challenge with The Friday Mashup this week.
New Year's Eve reminds me of flares exploding in the air, champagne in hand, sparkles and sequins on dresses.
So, that's what I tried to portray on my card:

• On a 3 1/4 by 4 1/4" piece of Silver glimmer paper, I die cut a star in the middle using a star framelit, then I rotated the same star framelit on the same spot at least 3 times to obtain this "explosing in air" effect. This was matted with Basic Black cardstock.
• The year "2016" was die cut using the alphabet thinlet dies, and adhered them to the middle of the "explosion".
• Gold sequins were randomly added around the date.
• Champagne glasses, fron "Making Spirits Bright" were stamped on a separate  piece of Whisper White cardstock.  The glass was coloured with Wink of Stella glitter brush (gold), and the glass contents with the clear glitter.  The bubbles were cut out and adhered to the solution inside the glass.  The glasses were then cut out and adhered to the card front.
• The basic card is Basic Black cardstock lined with design gold vellum paper.  Silver glitter ribbon was added around the vellum prior to adhering the vellum to the card base.
• a row of gold sequins was adhered to the bottom ot the card front.
• The image panel was added to the card front using dimensionals.
• The sentiment was from "Good Greetings", embossed in gold and matted with gold glimmer paper.

Supplies Used: 
Stamps: Making Spirits Bright, Good Greetings
Ink: Black Memento, Versa Mark
Papers: Basic Black, Designer gold vellum, silver glimmer paper, gold glimmer paper, whisper white
Accessories: Gold sequins, Star Framelits, alphabet framelits, gold embossing powder, silver glimmer ribbon, wink of stella glitter brush (clear and gold), Fine tip glue pen, dimensionals

Happy New Year 2012 The Friday Mashup #38

Winter took long enough, but on Tuesday it arrived with a vengeance - rain, turning to freezing rain, then snow, followed by rain, and then a flash freeze.  Wednesday I had to drive my son to work for 8 a.m. and it took me 1/2 hour just to scrape the ice off the car.  The roads were just terrible, but I made it to his work in the north end of the city back to my home in the south end, without incident.  More snow arrived Wednesday morning.  The New Year should look very different from Christmas Day, which was decidedly green (brown really).

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, so let me take this moment and wish everyone a wonderful New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.  If you are travelling, please take care.

Which brings me to the Friday Mashup challenge this week.  It's all about the New Year and sparkle.....
  

1. Make a project that "Sparkles".
2. Or Make a project "Celebrating the New Year".  
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project "Celebrating the New Year that Sparkl

 Here is my card.  The dryer sheet technique was used as well as my favourite stamp set "Lovely as a Tree"

 

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Teeny Tiny wishes

Inks: Black Stazon, Basic Black

Papers: Night of Navy, Silver Glimmer, Whisper White

Accessories: Timeless Type Junior alphabet sizzlit die, Snowburst emobssing folder, Curly Label punch, Dazzling diamonds, Used dryer sheet (non SU), dimensionals

The dryer technique is a very easy technique, but the result is WOW!!  The picture doesn't do it justice.

Stamp image with Stazon ink.  Cover entire image with the Stampin' Up glue stick, apply the dryer sheet immediately and cover entire sheet with Dazzling diamonds.  Trim sheet and attach to the back of your card stock.  Be prepared to be covered with glitter.

Now you do the Mashup challenge.  Create your New Year sparkle card and upload it to the Friday Mashup home page here