Chinese Happy New Year Card 2012 - Year Of The Dragon

This card was made for the Chinese New Year 2012 - the year of the dragon, celebrated on 23rd January 2012.

Supplies used:
Red leather textured CS for the card's basis
Background paper - patterned metallic gold paper with swirls by Making Memories
Shiny gold paper
Black canvas textured CS
White printer's paper
Red leather textured CS for the punched Dragons
Chinese Dragon stamp by Rubber Stampede from my private collection
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Large Octagons
EK Success Whale Of A Punch - Dragon - if you find a place where I can buy it, please let me know! (I borrowed it from a friend)
VersaFine Onyx Black ink
Large round jewel brads - red with golden frame
Tiny clear blings
Double sided foam tape

The card's front:
I layered the papers, die cuts and punched out dragons.
I chose the Octagons to resemble the Chinese Feng Shui Bagua.
I used tiny clear blings for the dragons' eyes, to add some glam.
The whole piece was glued 3D for extra dimension.

Inside the card:

An octagon made of black CS and a shiny gold dragon, along with a Happy New Year sentiment in Chinese and in English.

On the envelope:
Chinese Dragon stamp, stamped with black ink on the envelope's front and back sides.
Happy New Year!

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Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed. Have a creative day! Dorly

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.

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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