Thursday, December 29, 2011

Gearing Up for the New Year!


Are you ready for 2012 yet? Well, Dreamweaver Stencils has seriously been "gearing" up for it. We just added three new extremely talented members to the Dream Team as was announced last week on the Dream It Up! post. We plan on making a few changes with the challenges and posting that the team does regularly, and we're super excited! Be sure to visit the Dream Team next week for the latest news, and especially, how YOU can win prizes by playing along!
Our challenge this week was to create with a New Year's/Celebrate theme. Since I don't happen to have specific New Year's stencils, I took a different look at what I do have. New Year's Eve is all about midnight celebrations. Midnight is a time. Time is clocks. Clocks have gears. See where my mind went? Scary, isn't it? Lol. I added a mirror silver cardstock panel of embossed Gears to my teal card, plus a black panel embossed and reversed (photo doesn't show this very well...), and then I embossed the Kaleidoscope stencil on the mirror silver to represent the "clock". Recently, my Dream Team Secret Santa, Georgia, gave me some Tim Holtz Sprocket Gears, so I used a couple of these for the center of the clock between the minute and hour hands. To really highlight the midnight theme, I paste-embossed in Matte Black the 12 on the punched circle, covered with black glitter, and popped it higher on the card. The sentiment was also paste-embossed and covered in glitter. I had to add the bling for New Year's!
Now be sure to visit the rest of the Dream Team to see how they are celebrating the end of 2011, and the beginning of a promising 2012!


8 comments:

Laura Drahozal said...

Oh Pam, how clever of you to use that Kaleidoscope stencil as a clock face! You are extremely creative and always an inspiration. Have a great new year, and I will see you soon!

Louise said...

Great card Pam, you are so creative! I love how your clock came out. Happy New Year!

Liz Martin said...

This just screams "ready to party." I LOVE IT (and I understand your thought process completely!). Thanks for keeping us on the right track these past few months. Happy New Year!

Lynell Harlow / Dreamweaver Stencils said...

Pam this is fabulous! My favorite part is your mechanical workings..."very effective"!

Kristi Parker Van Doren said...

very nice! Love the gears and the subtlety..very well done. Happy New Year

Scrappychick said...

I see we are thinking in the same gear! Love the Gears on the aluminum...very cool!

sommrstamping said...

Pam Love your creation, you really are inspirational. I love the way you used the gears and the way you created the clock. Can't wait to spend time with you at CHA.

Anonymous said...

I like it! A fun use of the different stencils. Happy New Year!