Saturday, January 29, 2011

Chinese Happy New Year Card - Year Of The Rabbit

This card was made for the Chinese New Year - the year of the rabbit, celebrated on February 3rd 2011.
Ingredients:
Red leather textured CS for the card's basis
Transparent vellum paper with Chinese text in gold and Chinese marks in dark red, carefully attached so the glue is hidden underneath it
Shiny gold paper, its corners punched using Martha Stewart Large Punch around the Page - Double Arches set (I used only the corner punch here)
Rabbit stamp by Comotion rubber stamps from my private collection (discontinued), stamped with black ink on red leather textured CS
Red half pearls, to add some glam.
Inside the card:
A small piece of red leather textured CS
Shiny gold paper, its upper border punched using Martha Stewart Large Punch around the Page - Double Arches set (I used only the border punch here)
Rabbit stamp by Comotion rubber stamps from my private collection (discontinued), stamped with black ink.
For the interlacing ribbon piece I used matt gold canvas textured CS
Both its edges were punched with EK Success Binding Edge Edger Punch.
Then I used a narrow red satin ribbon, interlacing it from one side to the other all the way down, and simply tying its ends.
This piece was glued 3D for extra dimension.
On the red envelope:
Rabbit stamp by Comotion rubber stamps from my private collection (discontinued), stamped with black ink
and there's a cream outer envelope for postal delivery.
(You can enlarge each photo by clicking on it)
Challenges
Michael Strong's Yahoo group Chinese New Year Card challenge (end of January 2011) .
MY SHERI CRAFTS CHALLENGE #42 - ASIAN / CHINESE NEW YEAR (until February 5th 2011) - I won the Ooo-La-la Blog Award
Year of the Rabbit for Daring Cardmakers (until February 4th 2011) .
pearls for Belli Challenge #109 - the letter P (until February 2nd 2011) .
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed. Have a creative day! Dorly

12 comments:

  1. חמוווווד!!
    ליאור

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  2. This card is so pretty, Dorly!
    Els

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  3. Very elegant, love all the textures

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  4. This is gorgeous and so different. I love the way you have threaded the ribbon through the border punch. I might have to try that.. Thank you so much for sharing with us at Creative Belli this time.
    Happy Crafting
    Hugs
    Tamara

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  5. Wow you managed to combine both elements - a fabulous card and I love the ribbon detail too! Thanks for joining in with my challenge this week at Daring Cardmakers.

    Love Lynda xxx

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  6. This card is great! I love how you used the corner punch. Thanks for joining us this week!

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  7. I just submitted to Sheri crafts and had to look at your art work and art it is. The thought process and creativity in this piece is wounderful. I like it when you actually need to stop and grab the elements and art put into it.
    From the west of the world, Tootsie in Oregon USA

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  8. What a great way to incorporate the challenge in your card. Thanks for sharing on the Belli challenge.

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  9. How beautiful this is - and soooo much work has gone into making it. Thanks for celebrating the Chinese New Year withThe Daring Cardmakers this week

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  10. this is a great card-love your ribbon treatment-I was reading your bio-so impressed on your language ability-thanks for sharing your art with us at the creative belli blog

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  11. This is just a wonderful card. I love the bunny and the ribbon detail. It is a work of art!

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  12. Very nice card Dorly! Nice break out pictures with directions. Thank you for sharing!

    Take care and STAY POSITIVE!

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