Happy New Year 2025

Hello Blogger Friends and a happy New Year to you all. Hope the start of the year has been a good one. 

I finished up yesterday with the last of my 2024 Christmas cards. I am also in the process of taking all my Christmas decorations down. I made some big headway today. I have 1 of my 3 trees all packed and put away. I took down all the greenery from my kitchen cabinets and china cabinet. 

Tomorrow I will go after all the accessories in all the downstairs rooms and possibly the tree I put upstairs. Plus, I have wreaths on my windows that need to come down. I definitely go all out for Christmas and the takedown seems to take so long.  I want to get my Valentine decorations up!  

Now onto my card for today.  I am starting off 2025 with a New Year card. This one I created using the colors from the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #1031. I was the hostess and I chose basic white, night of navy and poppy parade for my color trio. Optional was New Years or Something New. 

I had both options covered since the designer paper I used was new to me and I created a slimline card.

I started with my background designer paper which is from the Stampin' Up "O Holy Night" collection. It's layered on a basic white card base cut at 81/2" x 4". I thought the paper would work well for a nighttime sky with fireworks.

I cut the buildings with a CottageCutz die in night of navy cardstock, the fireworks (CottageCutz die) in poppy parade and white glitter paper.

The Happy New Year is a die from Impression Obsession cut in poppy parade and I added some Nuvo glitter gloss. The camera didn't pick that up well.

Well, that's my card for today. So, until next time......God bless. 

Card Details:

Paper: poppy parade, night of navy, thick white, o holy night dsp (Stampin' Up), white glitter paper (Recollections

Paper Size: 8 1/2" x 3 1/2"

Accessories: Fireworks die, City Skyline die (cottageCutz), Happy New Year die (Impression Obsession),

Techniques: slimline card

I am also entering:

1.  A Cut Above challenge is anything goes with a die cut and optional of new. 

2.  Love Those Pretty Patterned Papers Challenge is anything goes with patterned paper. 

3.  Creative Fingers Challenge is anything goes. 

4.  Cut It Up Challenge is something new with a die cut. I used new designer paper. 

5.  Craft Rocket Challenge is something new. I used new designer paper.