Happy New Year!!

Out with the old, in with the NEW! Another year come and gone! What better way to celebrate the occasion than with a little bubbly!

This card features a champagne bottle, bright colors and a little sparkle, it's all dressed up and ready to CELEBRATE!



This card started with a little "stamp surgery". Every now and then, I run across a stamp that has elements that I'd rather use separately. Of course, I could always mask the stamp, but sometimes it's easier just to make an "adjustment"! The "happy new year!" circle stamp started out with a negative image of a drink in the center...



I wanted to put the champagne bottle in the center instead, so I cut around the drink stamp to remove it...



Now, I can use just the circle design by itself, or I can fill it with another small stamp OR, i can always put the drink stamp back in the center to use the stamp as it was originally made. Plus, I can also use the drink stamp by itself now as well.

I stamped and embossed the design on 3 colors of cardstock and used Smooch Accent Ink to color in the champagne bottles. I like to emboss designs that I want to "Smooch" because it's easier to stay in the lines!



Several stamps were combined on the large "sentiment" circle and sparkle fibers were used to BLiNg up the edge...



"bubbly” card

Skill Level: moderate

SUPPLIES:

Clearsnap: ColorBox Archival Dye Ink: Wicked Black, Smooch Accent Ink: Pool, Sassy Pink, Green Apple, Gold Lame', Siren and Molasses, Top Boss: Embossing Pad and Embossing Powder - black, Sparkle Fibers: Pink Frost and Glue Gloss

Bazzill: Frosted Kiwi, Frosted Teal, Raspberry, Coconut Swirl and Blackberry Swirl cardstock

My Sentiments Exactly: Happy New Year

Tools: 2" and 2 1/2" circle punch, dimensional foam dots, heat gun and paper trimmer

DIRECTIONS:

1) cut a 5 X 10 piece of black cardstock and fold in half to make card.

2) Insert champagne bottle in "happy new year" circle and stamp and emboss using Top Boss Embossing Pad and Black Embossing Powder on 3" squares of lime, aqua and hot pink cardstocks.

3) Fill in champagne bottles using Smooch Accent Inks.

4) When inks have dried, use 2" circle punch to punch our designs.

5) Stamp and Emboss "happy NEW YEAR" on a 3 1/2" square piece of white cardstock.

6) Use 2 1/2" circle punch to punch out design, then stamp and emboss trio of drink glasses around sentiment.

7) Stamp "2011" using Wicked Black Archival Dye Ink at top left.

8) Use Smooch Accent Inks to fill in drink glasses; let inks dry.

9) Adhere Pink Frost Sparkle Fibers around edge of white circle using Glue Gloss; set aside til glue dries.

10) To assemble, adhere white circle using dimensional foam dots at bottom right of card, then adhere the other 3 circles as shown.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!