Happy New Year

Happy New Years Eve Peeps!!!! 

I  finally have a new card to share with ya'll!!!

I made this card using the color challenge this week on Splitcoaststampers. Mary is the hostess this week and she picked some fun colors for making a celebration card, which is the dessert option. 

The colors are:

Basic Black, Silver and Whisper White. I pulled out my Stampin Up Happy Hour stamp set to make this card. I stamped the glasses using Smoky Slate ink onto some Whisper White card stock, I stamped the glass twice and then added my sentiment under the glasses. The sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. I used my stamp a ma jig to line it up. I then used my Pierced Circle dies to cut out, these are not SU.

I matted with basic black and a scallop circle.

The base of the card is Basic Black and then a layer of Silver Foil paper and then an embossed piece of white. I embossed with the Perfect Dot EF. I dug through my stash of DSP and found some retired black and white, this comes from the Night and Day pack.

I then decided I wanted to make a pretty bow for the bottom, I have the SU Gift Bow die, but it was too large so I used my oval punches to make this one. I added a piece of Silver Glimmer to the center of the bow and mounted it on the card using my glue gun. I also added some silver glimmer to the glasses for the liquid in them. The bubbles are some silver pearls and I added two larger ones to the top corners of the card.

Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year!!!!

Vicki

SU Only, Merry Monday Christmas Cheer

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a fun Holiday card made with a couple of challenges in mind, first up I used the Merry Monday Sketch Challenge 

and then the SU-Only Challenge this week is a Clean and Simple Holiday card Challenge.

When I saw the sketch it made my mind start to mentally file through all my SU sets to come up with a small element for those little circles. I wanted do something a bit different, and I remembered the Stampin Up set called Happy Hour would be great and even better it has a cute little Christmas saying to go along with it.

This card is super simple to put together, I did at first use the chevron or zig zag EF for my background, but when I came to the sentiment, it just wouldn't work. So I reverted to an old favorite the perfect dot EF. I stamped the part of the sentiment I wanted to use and then embossed. 

The DSP on here is from the wonderful Festival of Prints pack. 

The only fussy apart about this card is cutting out the holly leaves, but they don't really take that much time.

I debated about adding the ribbon.......you all know it is hard for me to make a card without any....LOL!!

I ended up adding some Cherry Cobbler seam binding but it is just as cute without and leaving it off makes it easier to mail too. What do you think with our without?

I colored the little "holly berries" with a marker. 

Can you believe how quickly the years has gone, next week is Thanksgiving and then Christmas will be here before we have enough time.

Next week hubby sees another doctor for some more surgery that needs to be done ASAP, we will know more after his appointment on the 20th, but his heart doc say it needs to be done soon, please keep a good thought for us and say a prayer if you a so inclined. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Vicki

3 Cheers for You

Hello Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card made using the sketch this week on the Freshly Made Sketches Blog.

I am using another fun new stamp set from Stampin Up called "Happy Hour". 

I used a piece of DSP  from the "Floral District" paper pack for my color inspiration.

I stamped the drinks using rich razzleberry, daffodil delight and old olive onto some whisper white card stock. I used the same colors for the umbrellas in the drinks.

I matted the DSP and my main image panel with rich razzleberry card stock. The base of the card is so saffron and the next layer is also so saffron that I embossed with the fancy fan EF.

The old olive strip is embossed with the square lattice EF.

I added a few basic rhinestones to the umbrellas and at the bottom corner.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki