V is for Vibrant at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Looks like Edna is seeing which background flatters her new hair colour.

Front and upper left in all it's glory is a genuine, first edition Chris. Dring Designs sentiment it perfectly paired with the Art Impressions coffee gal. As always you need to have everything that is trending and a few years ago I had to have Dylusions sprays, I bought 4 I know I made a card with the purple and have used the turquoise but the blue was still sealed and as you see didn't spray well. I always use a fairly deep box to spray the cardstock and when I finished I set the piece to dry (and warp) looked over and my "helper" was proudly sitting in the box. The background was attached to black layer and on the Green base. The image was framed and yes I see the dimensional backing now and I was way too far into the cropping, lightening, adding the watermark to start over. Those suckers stick to everything. 

Close-up of the sentiment, oh yes and the coffee lady. 

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It's a NEW Year and a New Challenge at the Jingle Belles Rock Challenge!!!

 It's a good start to a New Year when all the "NEW" challenges begin, the prompt for this challenge is to use something Old and something New on your project. First there is a NEW header on the Jingle Belles Blog it's awesome.  Now I have lots of unused things, quite a few Christmas items so it's not hard for me to use something "new" but the middle of DecemberI ordered a couple of new dies and they finally arrive on Thursday January 7 so I just had to get them in the big shot, so here is my card.

It's a very large three die bauble so decided to just spotlight one on a slimline card,  The back ground is a slimline diagonal die but I decided to emboss it,  once I figured out the recipe, The last big shot I bought came with long base platform but regular plates, not sure if that was supposed to be as I didn't question when I brought it home (was not a fan of the store I bought it at, not very good customer service) I still had to turn it around and emboss the other end. So that was my second "new" item. Thinking of you I cut three times and glued them together to give some elevation, this is an older item. Most of the cardstock I used was from back in the day you could get Michaels cardstock packages for $4 or less. I also brought out my Dylusions sprays which are many years old, it was one day when I had a 50% off coupon and decided sprays "in" and then I I just tucked them away as I didn't seem to have control to use them.  Very happy with the outcome. The bow is from a retired SU set. 

Well didn't manage to get a good picture  but it shows how the bauble goes together. 

Finished the inside with a stamp I got as a prize from the Jingle Belles, not sure why I have never played with the set before they even came with dies.  The sentiment was also a prize from the Jingle Belles and my fav. horizontal sentiment.

I will be entering this in:

The Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ Something old Something new

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ A is for Advent B is for Bells.

Thanks for spending some time here today and happy crafting.