CR84FN45 - Happy New Year .....

..... Happy New Year to you all!  It's so nice that our new CR84FN challenge starts on New Year's Day - we're a year old today!  So double celebrations!!!  Our colours for CR84FN45 are bright and vibrant - medium blue, orange and yellow - perfect to brighten up the darker days of winter.  I picked the colours for this challenge - based on some photos that I took while on holiday in Mumbai last year and at a music festival. 

While in India I purchased some lovely handmade paper in which is absolutely perfect for this challenge.  I've used it to make the base layer of the card.  To make the topper for my card I started by creating the number "2012" on my computer and filling the numbers with a gradient of colour orange to yellow and then cutting it out with my new star circle nestie.  While still in the die I inked around the number with shades of blue.  I used my nesties to cut a couple of layers in orange and yellow which I glued together to form a "sun" and onto which I attach the date!  That's it a clean and simple design to welcome the New Year.

Digi-image:  Date from computer filled with gradient orange to yellow
Inks:  Distress - Tumbled Glass, Broken China
Spellbinders:  Lotus Pendant (S4-269), Star Circles (S4-335) #3
Accessories:  Stampin' Up! Card - Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie; Handmade paper from India

I know that the rest of the DT have some wonderful cards to share with you today - so do check out their blogs:

Sue

Andrea

Stephanie

Suzanne

Heather

Mona
Lisa

I'm really looking forward to seeing your creations with these colours - enjoy!!  You've got two whole weeks to play!

Wishing you all a very

Happy, Healthy and Creative New Year!

Picture - from Getty Images

Whatever you do to welcome in the New Year, have a great day!  We always have a quiet New Year's Eve, but have an Open House at our place today - a lovely time to spend with friends for drinks, nibbles, conversation, laughter, fun and love - a super day.

See you tomorrow!