Priscilla's Papercrafts: Nothing New

I've got nothing new today. I've been busy making a ton of birthday cards (January is one of my family's biggest birthday months) and I needed a card for my adult nephew. I thought about a few of the new stamp sets, but settled on one that just retired (gasp!):

Yes, Sip Sip Hooray just retired, but it is such a cute set that I decided to keep it for now. And I'm so glad I did! Any wine glass or cocktail glass set could be used to make this card, so I'm going to show you a few of the tricks I used to put it together.

First - that background. I had pulled out the See a Silhouette Designer Series Paper because I love the bright colors. The "sky" on this card is one of the sheets. And those palm trees? The Friendly Silhouettes dies...another of my favorite things!

I cut the sky paper with the die, leaving a hole where the palm trees are. Then I had some need for creativity to make the trees.

First I stamped the Sahara Sand with the bubbles from the set. Then I adhered a small piece of Soft Suede behind the trunks of the trees. And I glued the "sky" to the "sand".

I used the die again on a piece of Old Olive, and carefully removed each of the palm fronds, glueing them into the holes in my "sky" piece...a form of paper piecing. I finished the trees using a Soft Suede Stampin' Write Marker to draw the "bark" lines.

The "water" was cut with the same Friendly Silhouette dies, to nestle into the "sky" piece, and then I free-handed the water's edge with my Paper Snips. I stamped it with the water image from High Tide using Balmy Blue ink, and gave it some little white-caps with an old White Gel Pen. (See next photo).

Now for the glasses:

Stamped on Whisper White and cut with the coordinating dies, I then covered them with the Shimmery Crystal Effects, which I believe is on the carryover list from the Holiday Mini Catalog (I've misplaced my list somewhere in the mess on my desk!). This made the glasses look like glass: