{Spotlight Project} Cornelia Gets Ready for the New Year!

Hi, Cornelia here with a New Year's card - a change from Christmas!
I had enough of Christmas cards and the New Year is certainly a card-worthy event, so why not prepare for it in time?

I used VIGNETTE: Eat Drink Be Merry, SENTIMENT BUILDERS: Happy, and Sentiment Builders: Christmas & New Year to make this card.

I started with watercolor paper and heat embossed the sentiment on it:

Sprinkled blue and purple Brushos on it. You can see that you need very little of the powders, and they look like little specks of pepper. If you don't have Brushos, you can just use regular watercolors. They work quite as well! 

I misted it with water. The paper warped so I weighed it down with acrylic blocks.

Let it dry. Of course, I have no patience, so I used my heat gun to speed it up. If you look closely you see little specks of dried paint on the embossed letters. I wiped them off with a damp cloth (see second photo):

I heat embossed the champagne glasses in silver on a piece of scrap paper:

I fussy cut them, colored them with Copics, and mounted them with foam tape on the card:

I hope you enjoyed this post. Happy holidays to all of you!

Stamps Cornelia used in today's project:

     

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