A Toast to 2011

Happy Challenge Day at Ooh La La. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday! Now that another Christmas has passed, so to has another year almost passed. Wow! Where has all the time gone?! Here we are knocking on the door of 2011! I cannot believe how quickly the year has flown by! In celebration of the New Year, we are asking you to celebrate with us, by creating a project with the theme, "A Toast to 2011."

My card, again, uses that wonderful Weaved Paper that everyone seems to love. The digi paper is from the Joyeux Noel CD by ooh La LaCreations. You can get this fantastic CD in Ooh La La Creations' shop, here. I love using these CD's because everything is pre-colored and it is so quick and easy to make a card! Just print, cut, glue, and embellish! No coloring required, which saves lots of time!

The image is a freebie from Beccy's Place. I knew it would be a perfect combination, paired with papers by Ooh La La, for a New Year's Card! As always, I've colored the image with Promarkers, and added glitz, glitter and sparkle with my clearstar gelly roll pen. The strawberries in the image didn't have the black dots, so I added those myself -- It just seemed to be missing something without those! The black and silver metallic ribbon is from my stash. The sentiment is computer generated and punched using the oval and scalloped oval punches, by Stampin Up. Foam mounting tape has been used to attach the sentiment, for dimension.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:



Challenge #61 Someone Special at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #47 Time To Party at Totally Paper Crafts
Challenge #43 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
AIF061 Anything Goes at AI Factory
Challenge #53 Quick and Easy Does It at Fab 'n' Funky
Challenge #30 Anything Goes at Crafty Ann's
Anything Goes at Sugar Sweet Paper Treats
ASC31 Anything Goes at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Challenge #83 Anything Goes at All Sorts
Challenge #10 Punch It Out at Craft Your Days Away
Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #90 Let's Celebrate at Digital Tuesday
Anything Goes at Creative Craft Challenges
Anything Goes at Fairy Knoll
Bling Times Two (Metallic ribbon & glitter added with clearstar gelly roll pen) at Some Odd Girl
Challenge #49 Bling It On At Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #24 New Year's Or Snowman at Fun With Shapes and More
Challenge #46 Anything Goes at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #9 Anything Goes at Digistamps4Joy
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #32 Let's Party at Your Next Stamp
Challenge #50 party at The Pixie Cottage
Anything Goes at For Fun Challenges
SHC4 Sparkle & Bling at Studio 313 Hotspot
Anything Goes at Moving Along With The Times
Challenge #82 New Year at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at Sew Many Cards
Challenge #18 Anything Goes at Aud Sentiments
SISC39 Happy Holidays, Your Way (New Year's) at Stamp Insanity
Challenge #35 Out With The Old, In With The New at I Did It Creations
Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle, at The Character Cafe
Celebrations at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #36 Colors of the Season at Wee Memories
Challenge #96 Bling It On at Corrosive
GCA #117 New Year Bling at Ann's Creative Nook
Photo Inspiration at Crafty Ho's
Challenge #31 New Year's at Paper Playtime
CCH47 Punch It at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #7 Sparkle & Shine at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
Name That Card (on the way to where you need to be) at Stamping Vacation

Minutes to Midnight at Shelly's Images

Wow! Can you beleive 2010 is almost behind us?! Where did the year go! Before we know it, we'll be celebrating a New Year! I want to take this time to thank all of my followers for stopping by to visit this year, and for all the wonderful comments!

This week, at Shelly's images, we are celebrating the end of 2010 and welcoming in the New Year, with Shelly's "Minutes to Midnight" image. This is the perfect image for those New Year's Cards and is very versatile. You could make a fun and different anniversary card with it as well. Minutes to Midnight is on sale for a special price, today only, in the Shelly's Images store, and while you're at the shop, browse around and see all of the great images Shelly has to offer!

Of course, I had to do a New Year's card for this fabulous image! I used the sketch at The House That Stamps Built, for my card layout. Both papers are from my stash. I love the cream, green, and metallic gold paper. It seemed perfect for a New year's Celebration! My image is colored with Promakers, with sparkle and glitter added to the image with a clearstar gelly roll pen. I've added two piece of metallic gold cardstock behing the image, for extra shine. The celery green ribbon is from my stash. The sentiment is from Stampin Up's Teeny Tiny Wishes set and is punched using the word window punch and the modern label punch, also by Stampin Up. I've mounted the sentiment with foam mounting tape for dimension. The skittles (also known as Dew Drops) were hand dyed by me with "Bottle" green alcohol inks.

I made this card for my friend Erica, in Florida. We met online in a game a few years ago and have become close friends.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #80 Anything Goes at Passion For Promarkers
What If Wednesday Sketch D1510 at The House That Stamps Built
Anything Goes at Creative Card Crew
Happy New Year at Delightful Sketches
Challenge #53 Quick and Easy Does It at Fab 'n' Funky
SHC4 Sparkle and Bling at Studio 313 Hotspot
Challenge #50 New Year's Celebrations at Charisma Cardz
AIF061 Anything Goes at AI Factory
SISC39 Holiday Card at Stamp Insanity
Challenge #49 Bling It On At Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #30 Anything Goes at Crafty Ann's
Challenge #47 Time To Party at Totally Paper Crafts
Day #295 Ad Inspired (colors) at 365 Cards
Anything Goes at I Did It Creations
Shiny/Foil at The Character Cafe
Challenge #9 Punch or Punches at Pattie's Creations
Challenge #34 Inspired By A Song (Aud Lang Syne)at Sentimental Sundays
Challenge #83 Anything Goes at All Sorts
Celebrations at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #61 Someone Special at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #10 Punch It Out at Craft Your Days Away
Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #43 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
ASC31 Anything Goes at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Challenge #102 Anything Goes at The Crafty pad
Anything Goes at Sugar Sweet Paper Treats
Challenge #38 New Beginnings at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #102 Anything Goes at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #17 Cherish Your Online Friends at Mami Doodles
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Challenge #7 Sparkle & Shine at Bunny Zoe's Crafts