I am a big fan of how my cards turned out using the Happy Hour Collection from Spellbinders! I made two holiday cards - one for Halloween and one for Christmas. Both cards are relatively the same, just a few minor differences. I started with doing all of my die cutting and adding some Distress Ink to give them some dimension. To create the frosty liquid in the glasses, I die cut four of the larger drink shapes out of vellum (two for each card) and added Distress Ink to the back side of the die (so it won't rub off on your fingers when holding the card.
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The items I wanted inside of my glass were glued to the front of the non-inked vellum drink piece and I sandwiched them in by gluing the edges of the vellum pieces together to hide behind the edge of the glasses. Once I was happy with my glasses, I added foam adhesive behind die cut so they would not be seen through the vellum and set them aside to work on my backgrounds.
For the Halloween card, I used the Press Plate with my BetterPress and black ink. I used the coordinating stencil to adding green and purple ink as well as some Astro Paste to give them some shine. The Christmas card is the Press Plate foiled with gold foil! I used the stencil to add red ink to match the holiday cocktail I made with the die cuts.
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Once the backgrounds were dry, I used nesting rectangle dies to cut them down and I added a triangle piece of cardstock to the top of the card (this was to help me meet the requirements for last Friday's Craft Roulette). I then layered the cocktail background to a solid piece of cardstock that was attached to my A2 card bases. After popping up my glasses to each card, I used the BetterPress and black ink too make my sentiments and popped them up on the cards as well.
I hope you like these cards - I just love how the drink looks in vellum so you can see the die cut images on the inside!
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