Ringing in the New Year with a card

This week at Card Positioning Sytems blog each of the team members could pick out any sketch from all of the previous sketches to create their last card of the year. I always have so many favorites, it ends up being hard to choose! I knew I wanted a Happy New Year theme for me card so here goes....

I used sketch #69 and these wonderful black and white papers. The Thicker numbers made this really fast and easy.

I thought a really fun accent to the black and white print and all of the white of the card base would be a stamping of this great flourish design by Hero Arts. The little dots in the flourish stamp design are accented with a Copper Stickles. I figured out my positioning of the words and printed them on the card from the computer. I love having all of my fonts to choose from.

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And I just had to share my new "picture wall". We have done some major rearranging in our living room. This wall used to have a large, entertainment kind of piece on it and while we loved it, it meant we couldn't use this wall for anything else. We got rid of that piece and that gave me all of this space to do something different with. The green on the walls is new too. The large photo in the middle is a picture of all of our grandkids. Our daughter, Amanda, took it for us while we were all together for Thanksgiving. (If you take a peek at her blog, you can get a glimpse of our family Christmas) The rest of the photos are some of my favorites that I have taken on some of our trips here and there. The line of photos on the table are all of our kids and their spouses. Notice the little nativity set on the table!?

Well, here is a close up of it. It is a kids set that I got from Avon years ago. It is great because really little kids can't hurt the pieces as they play with them.

And, here is our youngest grandson playing with the nativity set. His first move was to have Joseph try to ride the donkey!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 69 for December 27 – HAPPY NEW YEAR card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – g.c.d Studio
Chipboard letters – Thickers/American Crafts
Flourish stamp – Marvy
Font from computer
Copper Stickles – Ranger
Corner rounder punch – Papershapers/EK Success