Sunday, 1 December 2024

Day 16 - N is for NEW Year

It's time for the 12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.
You can read the rules HERE or head over to Beccy's Challenges and enter HERE.

Beccy's inspiration is a magical Northern Lights Night sky card HERE

My "N" is for NEW, New Year
... yikes, it won't be long until we'll be signing with 2025 dates!


My first New Year cards for the year starts as a cut file in Silhouette Studio (details and link below).  The card is A6 size and has the ornate design cut out of the card base front.  I made two changes.  First I sliced off the ornate front panel so that I could mat it and layer it on the front of a card base.  The second change was the sizing, my favourite card size is 5" x 7", so I locked the aspect and increased the panel width to 5", the height increased to 6 3/4", which will still fit nicely in a 5" x 7" envelope.
I cut the ornate Happy New Year panels from gold glitter cardstock then matted them on 5" x 6 3/4".  That sounds quick and easy, right?  Well it wasn't, it took ages dotting adhesive over all the delicate detail so that it didn't stick up and risk catching, bending or tearing.  By the time I got around all the bits, the first dots were almost dry, so I had to do a super speedy second round of dotting.  I aligned the ornate glitter panels on the left side of the cardstock panels and they looked lovely, well worth the effort.
I made a pair of 5" x 6 3/4" card bases and adhered the ornate panels on top.





Wishing you a Happy 2025!!!

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INGREDIENTS
Happy New Year Greeting Card SVG – cut file - 3 designs in the set
- one random design available as a freebie from Drizy Studio
- in my case, I got this bell design
glitter cardstock
textured cardstock
300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make card bases
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue - to adhere the delicate cut panels 
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue panel to card bases

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  1. BeccySunday, December 01, 2024 11:07:00 pm

    Fabulous cards Tracy, I love the gold glitter! The red is nice and vibrant too. It sure is hard to believe we're so close to the New Year!
    Cheers,
    Beccy

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