Raising a glass to friends

Hello, crafting friends!

Never mind whelmed, I have been overwhelmed-and-a-half by the chaos that my inbox has become all of a sudden! It was that week off that did it :/ Anyway, while clearing it out I found a few challenges that are about to end. Yep, THAT's why I miss so many challenge deadlines!

This is a very quick and simple card which enabled me to use up some annoyingly small snippets of card stock - hooray! I started by masking off the bottom of a thick card base with a sticky note and sponging a little ink upwards to create a 'ground'.

Next came the die cutting: I used an MFT set called Birthday Cocktail, cutting the glass once out of vellum and then again out of grey card stock, and the bow out of a bright pink scrap. The drink was coloured on the back of the vellum glass with a marker, and I gave it some sparkle on the front with a Wink of Stella pen.

The glass was assembled using thin smears of glue. I attached it to the card base and added a sentiment from Stampin' Up's From Our House To Yours using grey and pink inks. I stamped tiny hearts from the same set onto the tag from the die set and added it to the glass, but I didn't like the look, so I added interest with some gems instead.

CHALLENGES
I'm joining in with The Snippets Playground  - the only thing that wasn't a snippet was the card base and even the gems were rescued from a card that was being recycled! I'm also playing along at AAA Cards where the main theme is Made in Minutes, and coming back for a second entry at Festive Friday, where I've chosen Friendship sentiment, Sparkle and Die cuts from the inspiration list. I hope I'm also in time to link up with Less is More's Fuchsia, Yellow and Grey colour theme.

AND IN OTHER NEWS
This card is dedicated to all my lovely crafting friends. I really do appreciate you - the people in my life that understand what I mean when I'm consumed with excitement about a new stamp set or accidentally discovering a new colour palette! Thank you for coming to visit and cheering me up with your comments; and thank you for always being there when I pop round to yours.

I raise my glass to you all (or I would do but Eva seems to be in charge of it!)

Cheers!