A New Year

  Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog and it is the final one of the year.  This week, the challenge is: Happy New Year

And our fabulous sponsor is:

The Cutting Cafe

Here is my card for your inspiration:

I was given this fun cutting template to use.  I don't have an electronic cutter, so I had to cut it out with scissors and a kraft knife.  My card is not a traditional New Year's card, but it is a card celebrating a new year (a birthday card) at the beginning of the new year (January).  It is for a friend of mine who's birthday is near the beginning of January.  The beautiful flower was in my bits and pieces stash as were the two green leaves.  I die cut the banner die and stamped the birthday sentiment onto it before adding it behind the flower.  I finished it off with some punched butterflies and pearls.  It would have been quite quick and easy if I didn't have to cut the template out by hand, so if you have a cutter, go ahead and give it a try!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Verve "Be Blessed" sentiment

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 25" stitched banner

The Cutting Cafe "January Word Shaped Card" template

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Crafter's Cafe Blog Challenge #292--anything goes

Paper Funday #48--anything goes with the optional twist: holiday time

613 Avenue Create--anything goes with the optional twist: up in the sky (butterflies)

Penny's Challenge #536--anything goes

Creative Fingers #245--anything goes

Sweet Stampers #75--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #196--anything goes

Tuesday Morning Sketches #689--anything goes

The Paper Shelter--anything goes

CRAFT #662--anything goes

Krafty Chicks #644--anything goes