Hi everyone! Hope you are having a great week so far. And, we are here to make it more fun – with Instagram hop and prizes to be won celebrating our latest release ‘Holidays 2022’ for December 2022 🙂

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I created a New Year’s card for this hop with our Welcome 2023 stamp set. It’s THE messiest card I might have ever created and I really truly like it. 😀 It reminds me of all the gold streams coming out of a confetti popper.

Key Ingredients:

1. Welcome 2023 (on VaradaSharma.com | on Etsy.com)
2. Deco foil Gold Oro foil
3. Gansai Tambi Gold watercolor
4. Spellbinders Hemstitch Rectangles Etched Dies
5. Spellbinders Elegant Swivel & Sashay Card – APG Die of The Month Club for April 2019
6. Assorted die-cut flowers and leaves from my past projects

Steps:

1. Use MS PowerPoint to arrange a design that can be sized within 3×6 inches.
2. Print with a laser printer on Hammermill paper.
3. Foil using a laminator with deco foil Gold Oro foil. I was expecting all of it to be foiled and I was planning to do maybe some ink blending on the sides etc. My plans changed when the result I got from foiling was just some distressed-looking lines and gold specks on the numbers. Then I decided to just go with the flow and create a completely different look.
4. Die cut with a rectangle from Hemstitched Rectangle dies from Spellbinders. Use the one with the dots as well as the one outside it.
5. Add gold paint on the border using a gold paint pen.
6. Also, die cut a folded black cardbase using the scalloped edge design with Spellbinders Elegant Swivel & Sashay Card – APG Die of The Month Club for April 2019.
7. Foam mount the white / printed rectangle on the card base while sandwiching a gold glitter tape to peek through the holes.
8. Go to town with gold platters.
9. Add a few flowers and leaves to finish it off.

Done 🙂

Instagram Hop

We are hopping along, starting from my feed @VaradaSharma. Do drop by to check out the full list of participants. We will pick 2 winners to receive $15 store credit each, from comments across all the stops. So, what are you waiting for?

SUPPLIES LIST

For your convenience, I am sharing links to the supplies I’ve used or the ones you can use for making similar cards – click on the picture or link to go directly to the product. Wherever available, I have used affiliate links, which means when you make a purchase, I receive a small commission (at no extra cost to you) which I use to run this blog. I truly appreciate your support!

Enjoy!
~Varada