Kindness can change the world! Happy New Year 2017!
Hi friends! Happy Saturday! Happy New Year’s Eve! I’m so happy to be here with you to celebrate the last day of 2016! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! And all of us at Simon Says Stamp wish you a very happy, healthy, and creative new year! 2017 is going to be amazing, I can feel it! I’m still sort of in shock that Christmas is over! It came and went in a blink of an eye. We had a very nice, relaxing holiday and my husband and I enjoyed getting out and doing lots of activities of the season. We love to go look at Christmas lights and walk around all the little towns near where we live and see the decorations. Now, it’s time to turn over the page on the calendar and get excited about what is to come! Welcome back to the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda!
I shared a traditional black and gold New Year Card last week. And this week I thought I would make another New Year card full of color and a not so traditional sentiment. I used papers from one of our very favorite companies – Doodlebug – to make a rainbow village! I used the Petite Prints patterned paper pads from Doodlebug. I have all of them and they rarely leave my table. They are my go-to small prints for backgrounds and layers on my cards. And who doesn’t love patterned paper in a rainbow of colors?
I started my card by making an A2 card base in bright white paper. I layered a soft blue polka dot piece of paper for my background. To make the semi circles I used the Simon Says Stamp Build A Rainbow die and traced it with a pencil and cut it out by hand to make two layers for my houses. I stamped onto the smaller of the two circles using two SSS exclusive stamp sets: Uplifting Thoughts, and Game Tile Letters. I liked how the 2017 fit right into the opening in the sentiment. I thought this was a good saying for the new year!
These are the three Petite Print Paper Pads I used for today’s card. LOVE.
I used the SSS Village Die Cut and cut out the entire die set with each of the rainbow colors. I mixed and matched the patterns so I could sit down at my desk and decide which way they would look the best. I ended up using the two taller houses in all the colors!
The smaller semi circle is mounted to the larger one using foam tape to add dimension. I finished the sentiment off with a bright red Doodlebug Enamel Heart.
Here are all my little houses laid out on my desk….Looks kind of pretty like this!
Kindness CAN change the world! I can’t wait to see what happens in 2017!
Thank you for spending part of your holiday weekend here with me. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Love all your bright fun colors.
Adorable card to celebrate 2017!
What a bright beautiful card with a bright BEAUTIFUL message.
Bravo!
i wish our streets would be so fun and coloruful, that would be a happy place, my suburbs are pretty green with trees and shrubs, but the houses are all dull brickwork, sometimes white brick wich i can;t stand
A great message for 2017. All the colours are beautiful.
I totally love the paper choice for this card. It is so bright and cheery. Have a Happy New Year!
So fun, so fresh, so colorful! And such a true statement! Happy New year!
Just gorgeous, Wanda!! I love the bright and happy colors – what a great way to usher in the New Year full of promise and hope!
What a bright, fun card!
Great card! :)
Wonderful cheerful card. The colours are great and the sentiment is perfect.
Love the unique design of the card. The bright colors are beautiful and the sentiment makes a big statement. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Love all the bright colors!
Such a beautiful bright card!!!!
What a darling cheerful card! Happy New Year to you too Wanda. May 2017 be a happy and healthy year for you and yours.
I LOVE everything about this card!
Love the fun card with the happy encouraging sentiment. What size envelope do you use to mail this. I know several folks that would love to receive a card like this
Cute card with the colorful houses and great sentiment!
Love the bright colours and the sentiment is just what tje erold needs right now. Have a Happy New Year!
What an awesome card and fabulous unique design! Love it! Happy new year!
LOVE IT!!!!
Wonderful card and sentiment and I truly hope people live by that in the year
to come! Happy, healthy, and creative new year to all!What a great card! Happy new year Wanda!
Love this card..the design is so unique and fabulous. The colors are so bright and happy. Thank you for the inspiration.
Love your card and all the gorgeous bright colours, it really is a ‘happy’ card. I think the design of it is incredible and the sentiment is wonderful!
Love this colorful project!
What a cheery and colorful card design!
Fun Fun Fun followed by more Fun !! Wanda you do come up with such FAB ideas and this is so clever. I would love to receive this sweet design. Cool beyond words xx
I love the bright colored houses! Adorable card!!
Simply amazing and sweet card! Love all those wonderful and colorful houses. Happy New Year.
Very colourful! Umm, how would that fit into an envelope? ;)
What a fantastic card!! A bright, cheerful, positive way to start the new year. Love it. :)
I love this card. Joy was my focus for 2016 and Kindness is my focus for 2017. Thank you for this beautiful card.
Love your card today! It’s so colourful and I’m very happy to
see lots of patterned paper, especially DOODLEBUG!
Happy New Year!
What a great sentiment with which to greet 2017! To paraphrase a song ….we need a little kindness now! Cute card…love the rainbow colors.
What a fab colourful card! Happy New Year :)
fun card.
Love the collection of colors.
thanks for sharing
Happy New Year
What a beautiful card to start the new year with!
I love this card. The bright colors are so fun.
So cute and the sentiment is perfect! Happy New Year!
Super Fun, Bright and Beautiful card!!! Love your patterned houses!!
Great card and I love the papers!!
Once again Wanda you pulled it off – love those houses in the bright colors – and a great message too boot! TFS
Wow!! Very beautiful!! Love the beautiful colors. Happy new year.
Beautiful work Wanda!!!!! Here’s to a Happy New Year !! ;)
This is SO fun and happy-making! I love the rainbow of houses and the arched design. Happy 2017!
This card is so bright and joyful! It is just the right amount of happy to start the new year!
What an adorable card! This would be a kick to create.
Super uplifting card to start the new year.
Love the colorful and fun card you created.