I wanted to make a Happy New Year Card for some of my regular clients, but with the pandemic of 2020, I felt I needed to kick out the old year instead. The Darling Donkeys Sale A Bration Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up! is the perfect set to kick out the old year! This set is FREE with a $50 USD purchase during our Sale A Bration promotion which runs from 5 January to 28 February 2021.
Supplies
- Cinnamon Cider Cardstock, 8½ x 5½”, score 4¼” on long side
- Very Vanilla Cardstock, 5¼ x 4″, 4¾ x 3½”
- Cherry Cobbler Cardstock, 5 x 3¾”, Scrap to cut out numbers
- Darling Donkeys Stamp set (Sale A Bration FREE with $50 purchase Item # 155264)
- Playful Alphabet Dies
- Gray Granite Blends
- Petal Pink Blends
- Cinnamon Cider Blends
- Soft Sea Foam Blends
- Memento Black Ink Pad
- Cinnamon Cider Ink Pad
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Stamping
Stamp the bucking donkey in the lower right corner of the card. Make sure that the front legs are aligned with the bottom of your cardstock so it looks like he is bucking and kicking his back legs in the air. This is important when we add the numbers later. Let the black ink dry completely.
While the black ink on the donkey is drying, stamp the Happy New Year sentiment in Cinnamon Cider ink in the upper left quadrant of the card front. This Happy New Year is an old stamp I had from 2002 It came from a set called All Year Cheer III. But any Happy New Year stamp you have will work. This is the time you should dig into your older sets and look to see what you have.
Coloring
Once we’ve completed all our stamping, we need to color our donkey. I used Gray Granite, Petal Pink, Soft Sea Foam, and Cinnamon Cider Blends to color my card front. The Gray Granite and Petal Pink were used for the donkey, the Soft Sea Foam was used under his feet to ground him and the Cinnamon Cider will be used in a little while.
Adding the Numbers
Die cut 20201 from the Playful Alphabet dies. Arrange them so the 202 are beneath the Happy New Year, the 0 is getting kicked away by the donkey, and the 1 is coming up from the bottom of the page to replace the 0. Adhere these down with wet glue.
Assemble The Card
Assemble the card by layering the Cherry Cobbler mat onto the larger Very Vanilla mat. Next, place the card front onto the two you just layered. Finally, adhere, the card front combination onto the Cinnamon Cider Card Base. Your Card is complete. Send it to someone you’d like to Kick out the old year with.