Happy new year!

Hello everyone and welcome to 2022..happy new year! Let's hope that this really is the year when our lives can start to return to some kind of normality. I hope you had a splendid Christmas?  Of course it's time for our first challenge over at Country View and for January the theme is "Your year to sparkle and shine". So we would like to see lots of bling, sparkle media etc. You can enter a maximum of  5 times and into a maximum of 10 challenges including ours. 

As always there is a fab £20 voucher up for grabs for one lucky randomly selected winner to spend on the website.  You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here.

I decided to make a very sparkly new year card to ring in 2022. This is what I got up to;

I cut out a circle from a 5.5" square of black card. I used the new year sentiment from Visible Image's Go to Christmas words and gold embossed it at the top and the "sparkle sentiment "from the Rays of light stamp set at the bottom. ( Edit; I notice that the stamps I have used have been so popular that sold out on the website, just add your email and Susan will contact you as soon as she has restocked!)

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The rays in this set are really awesome. I repeat stamped them in red embossing glitter. I also used the bubbles in the set to stamp in white. 

On another sheet of card I dripped some of Tom Holtz' mica stain sprays. I then stamped another ray in the centre.

I stamped the glass from the awesome Keep your gin up set and coloured the lemon slice. I stamped and cut out the ice cube too. 

I then stuck it in front of the ray.

I added a couple of gold die cut stars. I used 3d foam to layer up the front. Here is my finished card;

with a close up

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our January "Your year to sparkle and shine "challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

 Once again all the details for the January challenge are here, Remember that when you buy from the Country View Crafts website postage FREE on orders over £ 7.50 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be sharing my 2nd design team project on the 19th.

I would love to see you over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x