Happy New Year – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends and Happy New Year! We made it! Now it’s time to welcome 2026!

There are SO many things that happened this past year that I couldn’t even imagine, but they are all locked into memory now! It’s time to see what 2026 has in store for us next!

After sending out my Christmas cards, I always seem to forget to send one to someone, so I made a batch of New Year’s cards just in case and I ended up sending all of those out as well! I will have to make more if another one comes late! LOL

These were fun to put together using the Taylored Expressions New Year Bundle. I mainly used the Foil It – Shine On New Year and the Foil It – Acetate Framed Fireworks sheets. I foiled the numbers panel in gold and then the fireworks panel is clear acetate to layer over top of it that I foiled in silver. Fairly easy to do once you get them all foiled up and then just assemble together. I then cut out a Frame in Frame 3 in black cardstock to attach the acetate panel to and then layered it over the white foiled panel. I attached these onto a side folding A2 white card base.

To add a bit more sparkle with the shine, I die cut some different sized stars from the TE Little Bits-Stars dies in both silver and gold glitter cardstock. I added them randomly over the design.

Zooming in and looking at the background, you can better see all of the foil with the acetate and how it layers together along with the sparkly stars.

For a little more decoration, I took the TE 5 O’Clock Somewhere Stamp & Stencil Combo to stamp, add color to the champagne drink and then cut it out with the coordinating die. I only needed that one drink from the stamp, so I stamped several (I made a set of 6 cards) with needing two glasses for each card. I put one glass in front of the other and made it look like they were clinking together. I attached them at the bottom of the left side of card and then covered the liquid inside the glasses with a glitter brush pen.

I didn’t take a photo of the inside of the cards, but if you get a chance, check out these funny insiders panels from TE called Snarky New Year. I thought these were so fun and I foiled all of these in gold as well. Love using those Insiders so that I can quickly just attach something on the inside and not worry about stamping everything.

Thanks so much for dropping in today! Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year my friends!

Challenges:

Little Red Wagon – #839 “Use the Force” (pressure with Minc machine and die cut machine)
the Divas that cut…paper – Use NEW Crafty Item – All TE New Year products are brand new linked in post!
Crafts Galore Encore – #143 Anything Goes
Craft Rocket – #132 Something New (All new TE New Year products)
Love to Craft – #90 Anything Goes

Hello friends! Happy Monday! Hope that you’ve had a wonderful weekend and are ready for Christmas to come! This Friday will be Christmas Day and I’m happy to have everything finished and ready to deliver the cookies and presents to family and enjoy the time with my husband. Hoping that next year will be looking much different too! Are you ready for Christmas or just ready for the year to be finished? 😉

Today is the start of a new challenge over at {Cupcake Inspirations} with the theme of “SNOWFLAKES“! The only difference for this challenge is that it is only lasting for ONE week instead of the noraml 2 weeks. Also, this will be my final post as a design team member for them as well. I have really enjoyed being apart of this team as what’s better with crafting than with a cupcake inspired theme, right?!🧁😋 So I’m sure I’ll be inspired to play along with the challenges in the future as I have been! Hope you’ve enjoyed my creations for this challenge. Here is my “snowflake” cupcake inspired project for today:

I thought it would be appropriate to create a New Year’s themed card for this challenge as I don’t really need to make any more Christmas cards, but sometimes I forget to send out a Christmas card to someone and don’t realize it until later, so that’s when a New Year’s card can come in handy! LOL!

I absolutely LOVE the fabulous slimline dies that Whimsy Stamps has! Such a huge selection of them and I spotted this gorgeous Elegant Snowflakes and Border die and thought it would make some really incredible slimline style cards no matter what color scheme you have in mind! I knew that I first wanted to try it out with some metallic mirror cardstock, and I was also inspired by these gorgeous Gilded Holiday papers from Whimsy Stamps with the snowflakes in gold and black colors. It looked elegant like the die, so I pulled out a strip to fit across the top, but because it’s 6 x 6, it didn’t fit, but I decided to piece the strip together anyway and I don’t really think you can tell that much until you look up closely to know that it’s there.

So, I then layered the gold metallic die cut piece right underneath the strip that was attached to a 3.5 x 8.5 black cardstock layer. There are also a couple of extra snowflake dies included with that border die, so I used them layered together (one in gold and another in black cardstock) on the right side of the slimline design.

To create the sentiment on the card, I used the Whimsy Stamps Happy Sayings Clear Stamp Set and gold heat embossed it along the bottom of the black card panel. I also took the Whimsy Stamps Happy Large Word die and die cut it out in black cardstock several times to layer together for thickness. Before attaching it to the card, I used a gold ink pad and brushed around the edges with it as well as the entire black card front panel before attaching all together. I then layered it over a white top folding slimline card base.

Here’s a closer view of the gold metallic die along with the gold heat embossed sentiment as well as the gold inked edges around the design. I’ve also decided to add some gold Drip Drops from Taylored Expressions in the center of some of the snowflakes as well as a couple of black sequins that I filled the centers with some gold Stickles with.

Of course I think it looks so much more elegant, shinny and sparkly in person as it’s hard to photograph and be able to capture all of the lighting that you see when you’re holding it in your hands!

Hopefully by sharing a few different angled photos, you’re able to see some of these details in this card design.

Please be sure to stop by the {Cupake Inspirations} Challenge blog and come join us with your “snowflake” creations this week and check out the inspiration from the design team whle you’re there! REMEMBER: You have only ONE WEEK to enter! Can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Thanks for stopping by today and I’ll be seeing you soon with another post soon!

Challenges: