Harsh years can, I find, often elicit one of two states. Either you enter the start of a new year browbeaten, worn very nearly to your last nerve, or they stir up a powerful sense of wide-eyed optimism.
Both are understandable, normal, natural.
They are not the only two possible states, of course. I have experienced enough January 1sts now at this point in my life to know though that they are amongst the most common.
As someone whose ingrained instinct is to see the glass as half full (though, at times, it does depend on whose pouring 😄), I often veer towards the optimistic side of things.
2021 put me and my husband – along with countless others around the globe – through the wringer and then some.
Was it, mercifully, the most brutal year of our lives? No, thankfully, it was not.
But it was deeply challenging, highly stressful, and a very far cry from ideal.
Like all years that I have thus far experienced, it still housed some positives, too. I’m not sure I would say that they outweighed the difficulties, but they certainly did their part to balance the scales a bit more.
Interestingly, I often find that the rougher and tougher a year was, the more I leap with Labrador puppy enthusiasm into the rebirth of January.
The year’s first month received its English name via Latin. It means the month of the Roman dietary Janus (who presided over doors, entryways, and beginnings).
One particularly noteworthy facet to the God Janus is that he is often depicted and described as having two faces. One looked the past squarely in the eyes, the other stared ahead, always ready to tackle the incoming future.
We as mere mortals down here on earth often embody a similar sense of duality as one year takes its final bow and the next comes barreling into town.
Looking back, we reflect and contemplate the twelve months that we just experienced. We know that all we went through then will contribute to who we are for the rest of our days.
There are some years we wish we could tightly cling to with all of our might and others that we are happy to drop faster than a bad habit.
And certainly, there are a good many that fall somewhere in between.
It can be hard, I readily acknowledge, to embrace January with intense optimism or hope – especially if the year that just transpired was a particularly challenging one.
Yet, much as it is not fair to assume that a new romantic partner might embody negative or undesirable traits or actions of an ex, so too should be given each fresh year a chance to prove itself before we jump to any judgements or conclusions.
We need to give the new year time to show us how different or similar it may be to the last twelve-month calendar we retired.
The first day of January does not, of course, erase all our troubles or set every wrong in the world right (if only!).
But is a fresh start, an intensely powerful liminal period, and the chance to begin again in some respects.
Yesterday evening, as clocks the world over chimed with the sound of midnight being announced, 2021 gave up its ghost.
We must let it go. Passing years are like breaths of air, we only continue onward because they occur.
I was thinking recently about the fact that each year has a ghost of sorts all its own. Some are friendly spectres, whereas others may, sadly, haunt us for the rest of our days.
In reflecting on these points, the idea sprung into my head to make a punny New Year’s card starring phantoms and a graveyard.
And so, as the final days of 2021 ticked away, that is precisely what I did. Creating and photographing the New Year’s card that stars in this post as December was preparing for its inevitable end.
Adorable Happy Boo Year (New Year’s) Card
After the year we just collectively endured, it would not have been out of place to go for a solemn, almost sympathy-like card for a theme such as this.
However, (and here’s that natural propensity for optimism at play again) I wanted instead to convey a sense of cheerfulness and newness.
In this card we see three tremendously cute ghostie friends hovering above a cemetery as snow – one of January’s common features in many parts of the world – waltzes all around them.
These are chipper ghosts. They have no ill intent or malice in them. They’re friendly spirits of the sort that, if one was to spend time with a ghost, you would be happy to call your friends.
The graveyard they are chilling in (winter pun intended) begins with a classic wrought iron fence – as well as a lock.
This lock was placed not in the centre of the gate, but to one side. This signifies that the proverbial gates have been opened on a brand new year (or maybe it also means these darling ghosties have a bit of mischief in them 😃).
I wanted there to be tombstones on this card, but not for them to steal the show. To achieve this, I stamped some tombstones in two different shades of ink. One barely-there grey, the other black. I then used both a taupe-y grey coloured marker and a silver Wink of Stella pen to outline the black tombstones.
The pale grey grave markers are intended to have a ghostly, shadowy air about them, so were not outlined or otherwise jazzed up.
To help the tombstones look they were grounded, not floating (much like the ghosts themselves) in midair, I hand drew and lightly coloured a hill using an icy shade of blue-grey marker.
The falling snow comes via a paper with that pattern on it. I did not enhance it at all. If you didn’t have a paper like this to hand, you could emboss cardstock or paper with a dotted pattern, hand draw dots with white ink (or paint), or use a polka dot stencil to create a similar effect.
Our precious little ghosties friends were all created using metal dies and white cardstock. I backed them with identical die cuts made from brown cardstock to give them a sense of depth and shadow, then outline each of these three cuties with the same silver Wink of Stella pen.
I’m on a mission this year to weave more techniques I either do not use often or have yet to try before into some of my paper crafting projects.
One technique that I’ve not utilized in a good while is die cutting words from printed paper. I opted to do so here with the word “Boo”, which I cut from the same black, brown, and grey plaid paper that appears in a background layer on this card.
To up the presence of snow all the more on this design, I placed a few silver metallic cardstock snowflakes around the ghosts. I also used AB rhinestone felt-back snowflake embellishments in six spots on this haunted graveyard card.
I adore how this card came together! It houses so many elements that I adore, such as spookiness/ghosts, graveyards (I am a massive taphophile after all), wrought iron, a gothy colour palette, snow (what can I say, I’m Canadian 😄), plenty of layers, and hits of shimmer and sheen.
Last year we took explored spooky takes on various seasons and holidays. Namely Valoween, Springoween, Summerween, and most recently, Creepmas / Cryptmas.
A spooky, Halloween-influenced New Year’s has yet to become a thing on quite the same level as those happenings, but I for one am really hoping that Boo Year’s will catch on in time as well.
Who knows, perhaps this card itself can help to get that (snow)ball rolling all the more. 😊
If you’re feeling the spirit of this frighteningly charming New Year’s card and wish to create one of your own, read on for a list of all the supplies used as well as detailed step-by-step instructions.
Products used to make a haunted winter graveyard New Year’s card
-Lightly textured (or plain) white cardstock – Snow White cardstock from Colorbok
-Matte black mirror cardstock – Black Velvet Mirror Card from Tonic Studios
-Silver metallic cardstock – Silver Foil Cardstock from Recollections
-Grey kraft cardstock (or a suitable light grey cardstock of your choice – Grey Kraft Cardstock from Recollections
-Light grey cardstock (different from above)
-Sandy brown coloured cardstock
-Grey and plaid print paper – Christmas Plaid 12” x 12” paper pad from Craftsmart (Michael’s brand)
-Grey and white falling snow print paper – White Christmas 12” x 12” paper pad from Craftsmart
-Wrought iron gate die – Graveyard Gate Die Set from Stampin’ Up
-Ornate rectangle nested dies
-Elegant snowflake border die (or a snowflake design paper punch)
-“Boo” word die (or letter dies to spell “boo” with)
-Horizonal oval tag die
-Small ghost dies
-Small snowflake die or paper punch
-Light grey ink – Shadow Grey Archival Ink from Ranger
-Black ink – Jet Black Archival Ink from Ranger
-Silver shimmer pen/marker – GI Silver marker from Wink of Stella
-Brown-grey, blue, and grey markers
-“Happy New Year” sentiment stamp (you will be using the “Happy” and “Year” portions on this card)
-Tombstone stamps – Graveyard Gate Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up
-Felt and AB rhinestone snowflake embellishments (sourced from AliExpress)
-Glue gun and glue sticks (optional, but handy for attaching the felt snowflake embellishments)
-Dimensional foam, pop dots, or similar to elevate some of your layers
-Adhesive, such as a tape runner, of your choice (I often use my Scotch Tape Glider)
How to make an adorable ghost-filled Happy Boo Year card
Begin by making a card base from white cardstock.
Cut a piece of matte black mirror cardstock ever so slightly narrower but a touch taller than the card base. Adhere.
Cut a piece of brown and grey plaid paper slightly smaller than the matte black mirror cardstock layer. Adhere.
Using white cardstock cut the largest size ornate rectangle from your nested die set.
Using light grey cardstock cut the second largest size ornate rectangle from your nested die set. Adhere the two layers you just die cut together, centering the small die cut on top of the larger one.
Cut this die cut stack in half (unless you’re using a very tall slimline die set that would reach from the top to the bottom of the card) and adhere one half in the upper center of the card (let it jut out a tad beyond the top edge of the card base) and the other on the bottom center of the card.
Next die cut two pairs of ornate snowflake borders from white cardstock and two from silver metallic cardstock (or light grey cardstock, if you prefer). Arrange one of each colour so that the silver is on top of the white. Offset them a little to give a dimensional look.
Adhere each pair of snowflake borders together and then adhere one pair on each side of the center of the card base layers, as shown.
Cut a piece of matte black mirror (or plain black, as desired) cardstock slightly smaller than the piece of grey and brown plaid paper. Adhere to previous base layers.
Next, we’re going to create the snow-covered graveyard scene.
To do so, start by cutting a piece of “falling snow” print paper slightly smaller than the previous matte black mirror cardstock.
Run your silver Wink of Stella pen around the inner edges on all four sides of that piece of paper.
Using stamps from the Stampin’ Up Graveyard Gate Stamp set, stamp a few tombstones with black ink and a few with light grey ink.
Use taupe-grey and grey markers to add dimension to the black tombstones you just stamped, but not the light grey ones.
Using a grey-blue marker, hand draw the top shape of a hill. Use that same marker to lightly colour in the hill, leaving a small border uncoloured around all of the stamped tombstones.
Adhere this layer to the previous base layers.
Die cut three ghost shapes from white cardstock and three matching ghost shapes from brown cardstock.
Edge the ghosts all the way around with your silver Wink of Stela pen. Arrange the white ghost layers on top of the matching brown cardstock ghost layers, offsetting them slightly for added dimension. Adhere ghosts to falling snow layer using dimensional adhesives.
Using silver metallic cardstock, die cut two larger snowflakes and three smaller snowflakes (all sof them hould be on the tiny side though, so as to not steal the show from the ghosts). Adhere them around the ghosts as shown.
Die cut a wrought iron gate from matte black mirror cardstock using the Stampin’ Up Graveyard Gate die. Then, using scissors or a sharp craft knife and a suitable cutting mat, cut vertically down the middle of the gate to create two equal-sized halves of the gate. Adhere each half to the falling snow layer.
Using silver metallic cardstock, die cut a lock from the same Stampin’ Up die set. Attach through the bars of the gate on the left-hand side.
Die cut an oval tag-shaped piece from white cardstock. Rim the edges all the way around with silver Wink of Stella.
Die cut the word (or letters to spell the word) “boo” from the same grey and brown plaid paper we’ve used already on this project.
Center word in the middle of the die and, once you’re happy with the placement, adhere the letters down.
Next, use your “Happy New Year” sentiment stamp and black ink to stamp the words “Happy” and “New Year”. If you have one, I highly suggest using a stamping platform here so as to get the placement of these words right on both sides of the “Boo” die cut.
Adhere sentiment oval in the center bottom of the wrought iron gate die cut.
Lastly, arrange and adhere six felt and rhinestone snowflake embellishments around the card, as shown in the photos throughout this post.
And there you have it, one uber-cute ghost-themed New Year’s card that you can send or give in-person to someone special.
Happy 2nd birthday to Witchcrafted Life
Precisely two years ago to the day, I launched this blog.
In that time, more than a hundred and fifteen posts have been published, readership and monthly visitor counts have grown substantially, and I have been fortunate to find my blogging voice again (after retiring my previous blog in early 2017).
This time around, the focus is on Paganism and witchcraft, paper crafting, taphophile, books, crafting in general, and more. These subjects are very dear to my heart and I delight in sharing about them here with all of you.
Little did I know when I hit the “publish” button on Witchcrafted Life’s first post that the world would soon be engulfed in a global pandemic that would still be going strong two years later.
I was unaware as well of the myriad fresh challenges (including serious health issues for both myself and my husband) that would lay ahead.
And likewise, I did not yet know that we – like a lot of people – would find ways to cope, grow more resilient, and even find silver linings amongst the profound changes to the way many of our lives had previously been lived.
When we slipped on our first face masks in early 2020, who amongst us could have guessed that the pandemic would keep going for two years and counting?
That it is and, sadly, this brutal illness (and its ever-emerging variants) shows little sign of slowing down any time soon.
Even with Covid still raging though, there is more to life than the pandemic. Serious, of course, as it is though, no two ways about it.
All around the globe, there continue to be births and deaths, weddings, holidays, achievements, heartaches, and reasons to smile.
The moon and sun still greet us daily, the seasons engage in their eternal dance throughout the year. And though it has been greatly altered in some ways, life continues onward.
Our planet takes a beating, but we’re not down for the count yet.
There is still hope, still (if only just barely) time for us as a species to save Mother Earth.
Just as there is hope for this brand new year.
I am anything but naïve or pollyannish. I know that 2022 will not be without its substantial challenges and hardships. Some can be predicted; others will likely hit us like a comet that no one saw coming.
Yet through it all, we will persevere.
It is human nature to keep going, to adapt to just about anything life throws our way, and to hold fast to hope.
Here, on the blogging front, I look forward to continuing to (all things willing!) bring you an average of 4 – 6 new posts per month.
Those entries will cover plenty of fresh craft projects (including monthly #MakeHalloween365 project shares – for which this haunted graveyard card is my first #MakeHalloween365 creation of the year), reviews (be it book or otherwise), interviews with fascinating individuals, self-care related subjects, inspiring ideas, helpful tips, holiday and sabbat happenings, Cemetery Journey adventures, updates on what’s transpiring in my life, and plenty more.
I would also like to collaborate with more companies and indie sellers here as well. If you have a business that you feel would be a good fit for this website’s audience, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me anytime (my email is: autumnzenithwitch@gmail.com).
One very exciting thing that I will be sharing more about here soon is the fact that I was recently asked to write a magazine article for an incredibly beautiful publication. Following which I was invited to become an ongoing content contributor to that magazine. This is a profound honour and something I know will help to enrich 2022 for me.
Whether you have been here since Witchcrafted Life’s first day of life two years ago, are discovering this blog here for the first time now, or anything in between, I thank you from the bottom of my immeasurably grateful heart for the support and kindness you have blessed this blog with.
I view my readers as friends and I am thankful for each and every one of you who shares your time with me in any capacity – be it here, on social media, via email, or otherwise. You are an integral part of the backbone of this blog.
It is safe to say that 2022 is not apt to be a walk in the park for most of us. Hopefully though, when all is said and done, we make it through and be able to join together at this same time next year to look ahead to what another fresh round of twelve months holds in store.
Joyful New Year’s wishes, sweet dears! May this year be a time of wellness, serenity, happiness, safety, creativity, meaningfulness, and no shortage of hope for all of us.
Do you have any predictions or gut feelings about 2022? What kind of content would you be especially interested in seeing here on Witchcrafted Life this year? ❄️👻❄️
Lovely project and stunningcolours. Impressive.
Happy New 2022.
♥
You are blush-inducingly kind, dear Ann. Thank you very much for your super sweet words about this adorable ghostie themed New Year’s card.
It’s hard to believe half a month has already whizzed by this 2022 began. Thankfully though, by and large, it’s been a good two weeks on this end – just as I hope it was on your as well.
Here’s to a relaxing, wonderful second half of the month.
🖤 Autumn
A fun New Year card Autumn, as always, lots of fabulous details.
Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year.
Pauline – Crafting with Cotnob
x
Thank you deeply, my sweet friend.
After the year we just collectively endured, I felt like a lighthearted, adorable card was needed this New Year’s and am really pleased with how this one turned out.
Plus, I already have an idea for next “Boo Year’s” greeting (it came to me shortly after I made this one).
🖤 Autumn
Your card is beautiful Autumn! Happy New Year and happy blogaversary!
Thank you wholeheartedly, lovely lady. Words scarcely do justice to the degree of appreciation I have for your wonderful support and kindness here all throughout 2021.
Warm hugs & the very happiest of wishes for this fresh new year,
🖤 Autumn
Happy 2nd blogging anniversary Autumn! Long may you continue your entertaining and informative posts. Your writings are always a joy to read.
Happy New Year to you and Tony too. I have always had mixing feelings about the start of a new year and now more so than ever. I think we have to take each day as it comes, and let the year run its course. It is more than a blessing that we aren’t able to look into the future, so that we can keep hope into our hearts!
Your card is a joy to behold, and those ghosties really did put a huge smile on my face! xxx
Thank you deeply and with a very grateful heart, my beautiful friend. I feel like I found my blogging mojo again all the more in 2021 and so excited to see where it will help to take me this year.
You are tremendously right regarding treating each day almost like we’re walking in the middle of a pitch-black forest, tentatively hoping we’ll place our foot down on solid ground with each step that we take.
Though it is shackled firmly in place by reality, I have a substantial amount of hope and optimism for 2022 – including that, hopefully, I will be able to wrap up the year in at least a marginally better state of health than the one I entered into it with (fingers crossed!).
I adore and enjoy your excellent blog posts as well and eagerly look forward to reading your entries this year (very much including the ones pertaining to your awesome vintage finds, as I love to thrift/charity/secondhand shop vicariously through those entries).
The biggest of hugs and happiest of wishes for a safe, peaceful, happy and healthy 2022 for you, Jos, and all those you hold dear.
🖤 Autumn
Autumn, thank you for the history on January and the new year. It’s always nice to learn something new! Love your fun and whimsical New Year’s card! So clever and so pretty too…if one can say that about a graveyard scene. LOL
Thank you wholeheartedly, dear Celeste. Your positive, supportive feedback on this post + project will long help to bolster me along on the blogging front.
I find the history of words – very much including the English names of the months – to be wildly interesting.
Would you be keen to a see post here devoted to exploring the history of all twelve?
I hope that your month is off to a cozy, terrific start and that you have a fantastic second half of January.
🖤 Autumn
Such a cute Boo Year card! Love the intricate die detailing and the adorable added touches on the inside. Wish you and your family a better year this year than last. Stay safe, healthy and crafty. 😀
Thank you wholeheartedly, dear Cassandra. I really appreciate that and hope that this year smiles sweetly and kindly on you + your loved ones as well.
Those of us who were blessed to make it to the end of 2021, really endured a lot last year and I for one am holding tight to a (very realistic) amount of optimism about the twelve months that stretch before us now.
Surely, my inner “glass half-full” says, things will get at least a wee bit better for a lot of us.
Here’s to hoping!
🖤 Autumn
I like this punny idea! And, of course, your card is crafted beautifully. Congrats on both your second anniversary and getting into a magazine! 2022 is going to be your BEST YEAR ever!
Aww, Ally, you can scarcely begin to imagine how much your vote of confidence in how 2021 may unfold means to me.
I won’t lie, 2021 was anything but a walk in the park for the most part. As such, the idea (which I holdfast to as well) that this year could be not only a bit better, but considerably so honestly helps me to get through the day and wake up the next morning with a smile in my heart.
And it is from that very spot that I wish the same for you and Robin as well. May 2022 be one of the most enjoyable, positive, safest, and happiest years either of you have ever experienced.
🖤 Autumn
Hello Autumn!! Wow, I can’t tell you how excitedly happy your card made me feel today!! I absolutely LOVE it with all of the punny and each detail in between from it! I really enjoyed reading your post and I truly appreciate your enthusiasm with the thoughts of the New Year coming in! Thanks for your optimism and creativity always! Best wishes for the New Year my kind friend!
Aww, lovely Vicki, thank you sooo very much on every front. I am delighted to know that this punny, super cute ghostie filled New Year’s greeting brightened your day.
Humbly, I adore it as well and think it ranks high up there on the list of adorable paper craftin projects that I’ve made to date.
The sweet little trio of ghost pals that I used here is off-the-charts precious in my books and I would be very surprised if they didn’t resurface to haunt this blog (in the best kind of way!) periodically going forward from this month.
I appreciate your friendship and kindness, as well as all you do and share on your own blog as well – and am super looking forward to everything that you chose to share there with us this year. Your gorgeous, creative projects never fail to inspire me – and many others – something fierce!
Huge hugs & the utmost of happiest wishes for a fantastic 2022!
🖤 Autumn
Happy Boo Year, Autumn, hee hee! I love your fun card! I love the phrase “giving up the ghost” and it seems so apt for this past year, which has felt like a ghost of a year. What we thought might happen – seeing each other, events happening, parties to go to – kind of happened, and then it was yanked away from us!
I’m excited for you about your new writing opportunity! Congratulations!
Thank you mightly, my very dear friend. I’m tickled pink (err, ghost coloured? :D) to know that you enjoyed this adorable ghostie themed New Year’s cards.
I love that I finished up the year by making what turned out to be one of my very favourite paper crafting projects of 2021.
Same here! I use that expression quite regularly – especially since I feel that a lot of things – including units of time such as days, weeks, years and so forth – have their own sort of spirit that passes away in a sense as the newness of perpetual tomorrows greet us.
I hear you and am deeply sorry about each and every way that the ongoing pandemic impacted you and L last year – very much including throwing a huge wrench into your holiday season plans.
On this end, truth be told, save for going out a teeny-tiny amount more at times last year, from a pandemic perspective, 2021 was very similar to 2020 for us.
To date, my mom still remains the only relative (or friend, for that matter) that I have seen in person since Covid took hold. I am too immune-compromised to take chances, so nature walks, our (roughly) twice monthly grocery shopping, and the occasional (always wonderful) visit with my mom (plus medical appointments) remain just about the only outings I’ve had in almost two years now.
Good thing I am both a massive homebody and the poster child for introverts everywhere! 😄
Still, that said, like most of us, I greatly miss the “before times” and hope to no end that we as a collective whole will be able to get a better handle on this horrible illness before 2022 is through and in doing so, allow more normalcy to set up camp for the long run again.
And by the same token, I hope that it is a super safe, positive, happy, and healthy year for you, L, and all those you hold close to your hearts.
Tons of hugs,
🖤 Autumn
Great take on a new year and card another great way to include your love of cemeteries in your crafting. Love to hear your musing on what a new year beginning means for you. Thank you for sharing and congratulations on your 2nd blogversary xx
What a heartwarming comment, sweet Hilary. Thank you deeply on every count.
While I do so with my feet cemented firmly in reality, I have no shortage of hope and optimism for look forward to hopefully penning and sharing many diverse posts here throughout 2022 (and beyond!).
From the bottom of my heart I wish you a cozy, wonderful and very happy second half of January.
🖤 Autumn
Happy New Year. I love your card, it is full of interest and so beautifully put together. Hope the New Year brings you joy. Anesha
Thank you sweetly, dear Anesha. Your kindness and support of my work – both here and all throughout 2021 – means a great deal to me.
I second your hope and tuck in countless wishes for a safe, serene, and fabulously creative year!
🖤 Autumn
Happy 2nd blog-aversary to you! Wishing you many more years of continued success.
OhhEmmGee! You ended the year with a wonderful Creepmas card, and now you’ve raised the bar this year starting off with a bang. This is just fa-BOO-lous and so beautiful! All the Halloween based celebrations have been so creative and super fun to learn about. Looking forward to seeing what you share this year.
Happy new year… wishing you health, love and happiness! 🎉🥂🍾
Thank you SOOO much across the board, my sweet friend. I wholeheartedly appreciate everything that you said – very much including your wishes for many years of continued blogging here.
That is a hope that I hold dearly in my heart and one that, health permitting, I will do my best to make happen.
Happily, I’ve probably got 50+ years of post ideas in my “This might make for a great post” file, so that should help to keep the momentum going a fair bit.
I adore that you enjoy my spooky takes on various holidays and seasons. As I celebrate them in that very vein, it only makes sense to weave the Halloween spirit through a multitude of my seasonal/festive makes here as well.
No shortage of possible projects on that front are swirling through my head for 2022.
Hopefully, a good many of them will be able to come to fruition (in fact, I already have a clear idea in mind for next year’s “Boo Year’s” card – it came to me right on the heels of creating this one).
Really, thank you again, Trina. You are such a lovely person and a joy to connect with online.
Wishing you tons of happiness, serenity, wellness, and time to craft all throughout 2022!
🖤 Autumn
Your card reminds me of the scene with the ghost of Christmas future from a Christmas carol,a fantastic New Year card
What an terrific thing for this card to remind you of, dear Meg. Thank you very much for sharing that impression with me.
A Christmas Carol is both my favourite of Dickens’s works and also my all-time most beloved Christmas story, so it is entirely possible that I was subconsciously channelling it while creating this cute ghostie themed New Year’s card (especially since my mom and I had just watched the movie “The Man Who Invented Christmas”, which is about Dickens’s journey of writing this now incredibly classic tale, on the evening of the 25th).
Many thanks again, lovely lady. Wishing you a wonderfully safe, happy, healthy, and creativity-filled 2022!
🖤 Autumn
First, congratulations on being asked to become a content creator for a publication. They were fortunate to find you.
Now, this card. The phrase “Happy Boo Year” is too perfect. And adding the sweet almost-cherub like ghosts took it over the top.
I like how you did the tombstones in the first layer and then added the show stopping gate over it. Such an adorable and playful card altogether!
Sweet Debi, you are so very, wonderfully kind and supportive. Thank you from the furthest reaches of my heart. I am so pumped to (soon) share more about my article and discuss my role of being an ongoing contributor there. It is an incredibly lovely publication and one that I am honoured to be a part of in any capacity.
Aww, I swear that I had a feeling you would like this sweetly spooky greeting, as it does – for all the snow tumbling down in that scene – still have plenty of elements from our beloved Halloween season.
Aren’t those wee ghostie friends just the most adorable around? I love them to bits and have no doubt that they’ll resurface – much like real ghosts – again from time to time. How could they not?
Thank you again wholeheartedly. I hope that your January is off to a terrific start and that you are currently surrounded by an idyllically lovely winter wonderland in that gorgeous corner of the world you call home, my dear friend.
Warm hugs across the miles,
🖤 Autumn
What a beautiful New Year 2022 card! I love how layered it is. The painted tombstones and snow really add to the 3 dimensional look. The ghosts are adorable. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much, sweet Ivana. Your kindness and support are tremendously appreciated (both regarding this cute New Year’s card and all throughout 2021).
I hope that January is off to a positive start for you and that it blossoms in a far better year than its predecessor.
Sending the warmest of hugs your way from the snowy depths of Canada,
🖤 Autumn
This card is so creative and delightful. I love it!
And happy blogiversary!
xoxo
-Janey
You are splendidly kind, my sweet friend. Thank you deeply!
Ghosts have always been one of my favourite subjects (be it to study, decorate or craft with, wear depictions of, etc), but I have fallen all the more in love with them over the past couple of years. As a result, I find myself wanting to weave them into a good many of my craft projects – which is far from a negative in my books! 😄
An immense thank you as well for your lovely blogiversary wishes. As someone who was there for much (if not all?) of the time I blogged about vintage topics, it means an immeasurable amount to me that you engage with my current blog as well. 💗
🖤 Autumn
This brilliant, such a clever and well thought out design – LOVE it. Belated Happy BLogiversary – not sure where January has vanished too! Emmax
Thank you mightily on both counts, dear Emma. You’re the sweetest!
So true! While at times some of the individual days felt longer than the circumference of the earth, when all was said and done, January did seem to zip by in the blink of an eye.
Thus far, February feels a touch slower to me – but I could easily be saying the opposite come March 1st! 😄
Thank you again, my friend. I hope that your month is off to a wonderful start.
Big hugs,
🖤 Autumn
Oh dear, how very behind I am on commenting…a belated happy 2nd blogiversary! Those little ghosties are a cuter than cute way to celebrate the new year and I love how the brown cardstock adds depth to them!