Here's a project that has absolutely nothing to do with New Years, a card that I made for a friend of my daughter who turned six last week. She insisted that he likes Minions so that's what he got, a Minion board game and a Minion card. I found a super cute cut file to download (that I modified slightly) and I cut it with my Silhouette. See, I told you I've been trying to use it more!
This was the first item that I've made with so many layers. I actually cut all of the pieces at once by trimming scraps to correct size and putting them on the cutting mat in the corresponding places. So much easier than I thought it would be! I didn't have a slightly darker blue for the pocket so I used the same blue as the overalls but colored it with a VersaMark marker.
Then I pulled out this patterned paper that's been in my scrap stash probably since I started scrapbooking in 1996. Remember Paper Pizzazz and how patterned paper wasn't usually sold in individual sheets back then but in booklets? I think this was one of theirs. It has never worked for anything in the past 20 years but somehow I liked it for this card.
