New Year Wishes

Hi - Jean here - sharing a simple, contemporary New Year design.  I love mixing the shades of Curry, Deep Lagoon and Charcoal as much as I love circles - and celebrating the arrival of 2012 is the perfect time to combine all of those elements onto a single card.

The border stamps are from the great Curvaceous Borders cling set by Hampton Art.  The new year greeting is from their Studio G cling set. "2012" is simply printed onto white cardstock in the Century Gothic font.  It couldn't get any easier than that!

Here are the directions for this card:

Clearsnap Products:

Yellow Citrus and Deep Lagoon ColorBox Fluid Chalk Inkpads

Curry Limited Edition ColorBox Pigment Inkpad

Fancy Borders Design Adhesives

Charcoal and Twinkling Turquoise Glitter

Stamps

• Hampton Art Curvaceous Borders Cling Set 
• Hampton Art Studio G Set (happy NEW YEAR)

Other Supplies

• Paper Accents Dusk Cardstock (3-3/4" x 8-1/2" card)
• Memory Box Celery Cardstock
• White Cardstock
• Turquoise Cardstock Scrap
• Detail Clear Embossing Powder
• Corner Rounder Punch
• 3/8" Circle Punch
• Soft Round Paintbrush
• Rotating Leather Punch (small hole on the tag)
• May Arts Silver Cord
• Bone Folder
• Scor-Tape
• Foam Dots

Directions

• Stamp the narrow circle border on white cardstock with Yellow Citrus
• Stamp the wider circle border over it with Deep Lagoon
• Trim the cardstock
• Attach Scor-Tape to a scrap of turquoise cardstock, then brush Twinkling Turquoise Glitter onto the adhesive
• Punch three 3/8" circles of the glittered cardstock and attach it to the border
• Burnish the Fancy Borders pattern onto Celery Cardstock and brush Charcoal Glitter onto the adhesive pattern
• Print "2012" on white cardstock
• Stamp the new year greeting above it with Curry and emboss it with detail clear powder
• Trim the cardstock to form a tag and round the edges 
• Punch a small hole on Dusk Cardstock with the leather punch, then punch a 3/8" circle around it to create a reinforcement for the tag
• Attach the reinforcement to the card and tie the silver cord to the tag
• Curl the cord with a bone folder
• Assemble the card, using foam dots for the tag

Hope you like the clean, contemporary look of this card - try it with other color combinations too.  Thanks for visiting our blog throughout 2011 - I look forward to sharing more ideas with you in 2012.  Happy New Year!

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