Break for Chinese New Year

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I will be taking a long break for Chinese New Year so there will be no updates for some time. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends "A Very Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year". HUAT AH!!!

Chinese New Year 2015 Card Series - Card #10

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Welcome to Day 10, which is also the last day of my Chinese New Year Card Series for this year. Today's card is not your typical Chinese New Year card as I did not use any reds or golds for it. Many might find it dull and not as lively as a Chinese New Year card would be but I still like it none the less. Please feel free to let me know if you like it or hate it. Your comments help me to grow as a card maker.

Here's how it looks like:

I first prepped my card base by cutting a 4 1/4" x 11" piece of lavender cardstock, scored and folded it in half. I drew some faux stitched lines around the edge of the card using Signo Uniball White Gel Pen.

I die cut a piece of ivory cardstock and a piece of clear acetate using the largest rectangle from Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangle die set. I stamped the splatter images from Stampin' Up Gorgeous Grunge stamp set onto the ivory piece in some Versafine Imperial Purple and Simon Says Stamp Lavender inks. I then die cut the ivory piece and a piece of lavender cardstock using Simon Says Stamp Butterfly Tendrils die.

As the ivory piece is slightly shorter than the die, I lined the die to the edge of the ivory piece and ran it through the Big Shot. I used only the right portion of the ivory piece and adhered it to the acetate piece with some glue tape. I then inlay the lavender die cut piece into the negative space of the ivory piece using some liquid glue. I hope it makes sense to you what I'm trying to explain above but if it does not, you can watch this tutorial over at Simon Says Stamp Youtube Channel. I CASED this card from Shari Carroll. Though the steps are a little different but it gives sort of the same result.

I cut a strip of pattern paper from Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine paper pack and lined it up behind the acetate piece so that design will be shown through before adhering it down. I popped the whole piece up on foam tape and adhered it to the card front. I die cut the "Happy" sentiment 4 times from some ivory cardstock and once from the same pattern paper using Simon Says Stamp Happy die. I adhered all 5 layers together with some liquid glue to give the die cut sentiment a chipboard look.

I stamped the "Chinese New Year" sentiment on a strip of dark grey cardstock using Lawn Fawn Smitty's ABCs stamp set in some Versamark ink and heat embossed it with American Crafts Silver Embossing powder. I flagged one end of the strip using a 1 1/4" square punch and adhered it to the bottom right corner with some glue tape. I then adhered the die cut sentiment above the strip. I finished off the card by adding some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter to the butterflies.

That's all for the update today.

Thanks for stopping by and do drop by again for more updates.

Chinese New Year 2015 Card Series - Card #9

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Welcome to Day 9 of my Chinese New Year Card Series. Today I made another shaker card and the theme is all about butterflies.

Here's how it looks like:

I first prepped the card base by cutting a 5 3/4" x 9" piece of red cardstock, scored and folded it in half. I then die cut the rectangle from some ivory card stock using the largest rectangle from Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle die set.

I stamped the splatter images from Stampin' Up Gorgeous Grunge stamp set in Stampin' Up Real Red, Melon Mambo and Strawberry Slush inks onto the ivory piece . I then die cut the piece using Simon Says Stamp Butterfly Drift die. I also die cut some gold cardstock using the same die. I cut a piece of clear acetate and adhered it to the back of the ivory piece. I then adhered the outline portion of the gold die cut onto the ivory piece.

I die cut another piece of ivory cardstock using the same rectangle die for the background of my shaker part. I also stamped the splatter images using the same inks and stamp set. I used some Pretty Pink Posh Classic Christmas Mix for the shaker elements. I glued some of the sequins onto the background piece using Rangers Glossy Accent so that the sequins are still visible when the card is propped up.

I then assembled the shaker portion and adhered it to the card front using some glue tape. I stamped the sentiments using Simon Says Stamp Happy stamp set and Lawn Fawn Smitty's ABCs in Versamark and heat embossed it with American Crafts Gold Embossing powder onto some red cardstock. I adhered it to the lower right corner of the card. I then used the butterflies die cut from the Butterfly Drift die and decorated the front of the card. I also added some pearls to the body of butterflies.

That's all for the update today.

Thanks for stopping by and do drop by again tomorrow for last card of this series, Card #10.

Chinese New Year 2015 Card Series - Card #8

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Welcome to Day 8 of my Chinese New Year Card Series. Today's card is almost the same as Card #4 as I have made an additional piece when I was doing the stencil stamping so in order not to waste it, I used it for Card #8.

Here's how it looks like:

I first prepped my card base by cutting a 4 1/4" x 11" piece of lavender cardstock, scored and folded it in half. I drew some faux stitched lines around the edge of the card using Signo Uniball White Gel Pen.

For the ivory piece, I die cut it using the largest rectangle from Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangle die set. The stencil I made using an image that I printed out from the web. I stamped the stars from Simon Says Stamp Lots of Stars stamp set in Hero Arts Bubblegum, Butter Bar, Orange Soda, Green Hills and Cornflower inks.

I stamped the word "Happy" from Simon Says Stamp Happy stamp set and the words "Chinese New Year" from Lawn Fawn Smitty's ABCs stamp set in some Versamark ink. I heat embossed the sentiments using American Crafts Gold Embossing powder. I stamped the flower images from Stampin' Up Petite Flowers and Flower Shop stamp sets in Hero Arts Butter Bar and Bubblegum inks. I then punched them out using their coordinating punch.

I popped the ivory piece up with some foam tape and adhered it to the card front. I then adhered the flowers with some foam squares and finished the card off by adding some pearls to the center of the smaller flowers.

That's all for the update today.
Thanks for stopping by and do drop by again tomorrow for Card #9.

Chinese New Year 2015 Card Series - Card #7

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Sorry for missing updates for several days. I was busy with some personal stuff so I need to get those off my shoulders before I can get back to updating my blog. Today's card is a very simple shaker card and I hope you like it.

Here's how it looks like:

I first prepped the card base by cutting a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of red cardstock, scored and folded it in half. I rounded all the corners with We Are Memory Keepers 1/2" Corner Chomper and drew some faux stitched lines around the edge of the card using Signo Uniball White Gel Pen.

I die cut 2 pieces of brown cardstock, 1 piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock and 1 piece of clear acetate using Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Duo 1 die set. This will be the shaker part of my card. I also die cut the branch from some brown cardstock using Spellbinders Cherry Blossom die set and adhered it to the Solar White piece. 

I then adhered some Pretty Pink Posh Pink Peonies and Marshmallow sequins to the branch to make them look like cherry blossoms. I assembled the shaker part and put in some Pink Peonies and Marshmallow into the cavity before sealing it. I then adhered it to the center of the card front using some glue tape.

I stamped the little boy and girl from Mama Elephant In My Heart stamp set in some Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them in with Copics before hand-cutting them out. I die cut the banner from some ivory cardstock using Simon Says Stamp Small Banners die set. I wrote the sentiment using a gold gel pen and drew some faux stitched line around the banner using a black gel pen.

I adhered the images and banner on top of the shaker with some glue tape and tied a double bow using some jute strings before adhering it to the top of the shaker. I finished the card off by adding some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter to the little boy and girl's hair.

That's all for the update today.
Thanks for stopping by and do drop by again tomorrow for Card #8.