Monday, January 2, 2012

HAPPY NEW YEARS

Happy New Years everyone. I wish you all the best. I finished out 2011 being a stampin fool and I'm bring in 2012 the same way. Starting with The friday Mashup. It's challenge #39 and they would like to see A New Year's card with some sparkles. Well heck I thing I can do that. I don't have any stamps really related to new year's. Except of course the words, So I'll have to use my brain.


I've come up with 2 cards.
The first one. All I could think of was fireworks and like I said no stamp, but I do have a dandelion stamp that could pass as fireworks (maybe). I have a set of number stamps from The Angel company. So here's what I came up with.


I chose Cherry Cobbler as my base. On my white background a stamped and gold embossed the dandelion stamp. I wanted it to look like the sky on New Years Eve. On another piece of white card stock, I gold embossed the number 2012 and then colored them in with Cherry Cobbler marker. The Happy New years is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set and I stamp it in Cherry Cobbler. I  then added 2 big gold brads. So that's card one. Hope you like it.

Now for card 2
My little mouse stamp from The Angel Company was still laying out and I thought he would look so cute hanging from balloons. I had to do a little mashing on this one, but got the little guy off his leaf and onto the balloons.


For this card I chose Real Red and white. I water colored the balloons in red, green, and gold. I also added glitter to them. I embossed my white background with a Cuddlebug folder and edged it with Real Red so it would stand out from the white card base. The red ribbon has red glitter going through it. I used a scallop punch and a oval  punch for my sentiment.And that's card 2.
Thanks for visiting 
HAPPY STAMPING 



6 comments:

Kasey ~ in Oz said...

Happy New Year Karen,

Great improvisation to make your card, Love what you've done.

Lovely to see you again.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz
Friday Mashup DT

hollybeary creations said...

Great job with the Masking on your little mouse card! I love all the shimmer on your 2012 card! Great idea to use the flower centers as fireworks. Thanks for joining us this week at the Friday Mashup.

Lisa said...

What a great way to use the dandelion stamp, it totally looks like fireworks Karen! Love this card!

Thanks for playing along again with The Friday Mashup!

Heidi B said...

This stamp definitely passes as fireworks! I love it! Thanks for playing with us at the Mashup this week.

Rita W said...

How clever! I would never have known that wasn't a firework stamp! Great take on the challenge! Thanks for joining us at The Friday Mashup!

Kim P said...

Both of these cards are fantastic! Love the dandelions masquerading as fireworks! And your little mouse is adorable! Thans for bringing in the New Year with the Friday Mashup!