HAPPY NEW YEAR 7x7 QUICK CARD-With Decoupage Balloons & Champagne Glasses
Send someone a "Happy New Year" card that celebrates in style with this colourful design, featuring champagne glasses framed in bright pink and purple balloons on a pink and purple metallic effect background.
To send a truly quick and beautiful card, just attach this to a card front and it'll be ready to post. But this new year sheet also includes extra champagne glasses and plenty of balloons to decoupage if you wish.
What's more, this design comes with small-scale commercial use, meaning that you can sell any item you physically make using this sheet, whether on CUP or anywhere else. Happy making!
Photographs from the Community
Happy New Year, Clare, and I know this is a little premature, but I felt it was a deserving wish, now that I have completed the card from your magical art work. The shimmering of the blues, pinks and purples in the background, with the festive atmosphere of the foreground is a perfect blend. I used matte backing sheets, so as not to detract from the art work. I printed the sheet supplied, twice. One copy onto good quality photo copy paper. This copy I cut out, and used the main element as the main backing shee, and the smaller elements, I used for the insert. The second copy, I printed onto 200gsm white card. I cut out the inner frame, with the balloons, glasses and the sentiment, keeping the balloons intact, by cutting around each of them. This I used as the topper. The main white card, measures 25cm x 12cm. Before I scored and folded this, I coloured the edges with a silver glitter glue pen. The deep rose pink backing sheet , measures 12cm square and I coloured the edges, with a blue, glitter glue pen, and then attached it to the card front with D.S. tape. The next backing sheet is a bluish purple, and measures 11cm square. I coloured the edges of this with the same silver pen, and then attached it to the rose pink backing sheet with Padded D.S. tape. I then used padded D.S tape to attach the main topper. Next I added the decoupage balloons to the front of the smaller topper using tiny padded D.S. squares. I turned this over and added D.S. tape to the outer edges, BUT did not peel off the backing strips to reveal the self- adhesive underneath. I then used curling ribbon to make the decorative spirals. I used 3 x 12cm lengths of 0.5 cm, wide, pink curling ribbon. I cut each strip lengthways to make 3 narrow strips approximately 0.16 cm wide. Accuracy is not the key factor here. I then cut each narrow strip in half, to make 2 x 6cm, narrow strips. I used 2 x 12cm lengths of blue curling ribbon and followed the same procedure. I peeled a section of the backing tape off at a time to attach a curled spiral end to the D.S tape. I added Double Sided padded tape, and then turned this topper over and attached it to the card front. I added some extra strips to balloons as tails as needed, using tiny dots of white glue, and allowing them to dry.
For the insert, I made a pale pink background sheet. To this I attached the frame, and the sentiment. To make the frame, I cut it at, 11.5 x 7cm, and made the hollow in the centre with a craft knife. The sentiment was written, using the word program and various fonts, and I attached this to the back with, D.S tape. I made a spray of silver curling ribbon, and used power tape to attach it, to the back, using the same power tape to attach this completed frame, to the background sheet. I added the balloons and the glasses, and, I attached some peel off party hats, and some strips of pink and gold. This has made a very festive card, for a very festive celebration. Thank you Clare, you deserve an extra big hug.
Pamela Horton
Happy New Year, Clare, and I know this is a little premature, but I felt it was a deserving wish, now that I have completed the card from your magical art work. The shimmering of the blues, pinks and purples in the background, with the festive atmosphere of the foreground is a perfect blend. I used matte backing sheets, so as not to detract from the art work. I printed the sheet supplied, twice. One copy onto good quality photo copy paper. This copy I cut out, and used the main element as the main backing shee, and the smaller elements, I used for the insert. The second copy, I printed onto 200gsm white card. I cut out the inner frame, with the balloons, glasses and the sentiment, keeping the balloons intact, by cutting around each of them. This I used as the topper. The main white card, measures 25cm x 12cm. Before I scored and folded this, I coloured the edges with a silver glitter glue pen. The deep rose pink backing sheet , measures 12cm square and I coloured the edges, with a blue, glitter glue pen, and then attached it to the card front with D.S. tape. The next backing sheet is a bluish purple, and measures 11cm square. I coloured the edges of this with the same silver pen, and then attached it to the rose pink backing sheet with Padded D.S. tape. I then used padded D.S tape to attach the main topper. Next I added the decoupage balloons to the front of the smaller topper using tiny padded D.S. squares. I turned this over and added D.S. tape to the outer edges, BUT did not peel off the backing strips to reveal the self- adhesive underneath. I then used curling ribbon to make the decorative spirals. I used 3 x 12cm lengths of 0.5 cm, wide, pink curling ribbon. I cut each strip lengthways to make 3 narrow strips approximately 0.16 cm wide. Accuracy is not the key factor here. I then cut each narrow strip in half, to make 2 x 6cm, narrow strips. I used 2 x 12cm lengths of blue curling ribbon and followed the same procedure. I peeled a section of the backing tape off at a time to attach a curled spiral end to the D.S tape. I added Double Sided padded tape, and then turned this topper over and attached it to the card front. I added some extra strips to balloons as tails as needed, using tiny dots of white glue, and allowing them to dry.
For the insert, I made a pale pink background sheet. To this I attached the frame, and the sentiment. To make the frame, I cut it at, 11.5 x 7cm, and made the hollow in the centre with a craft knife. The sentiment was written, using the word program and various fonts, and I attached this to the back with, D.S tape. I made a spray of silver curling ribbon, and used power tape to attach it, to the back, using the same power tape to attach this completed frame, to the background sheet. I added the balloons and the glasses, and, I attached some peel off party hats, and some strips of pink and gold. This has made a very festive card, for a very festive celebration. Thank you Clare, you deserve an extra big hug.
Pamela Horton
