Saturday Sketch:Happy New Year

This is the Dec/Jan sketch over at the

Michael Strong Yahoo Group

and I used it to share my first sketch card

of 2014 with you.

Here is my contribution:

For the card I used a combination of: 

Club Scrap Aspen papers

Michael Strong number stamps

Tim Holtz layered stencil Rays

Tim Holtz Chemist stamp

Tim Holtz Alterations - Bigz Die- Apothecary Bottle

I used the die to cut out the bottles. They were a little

to big for the card, so I cut a bit of the bottom.

The bottles are first collored with the direct topaer technique

with Antique Linnen distress stain and distress ink 

all around the outline to make green and brown  bottles.

The numbers are stamped with versamark and embossed with 

peeledpaind distress embossing powder and colored

with peeled paint ink.

In the background you see the chemist stamp

and rays all around him. He just had an idea

for a Happy New Year!

Have a creative day!