Lunar New Year Challenge - March

Hi there crafty friends, it's Tracey here with you today sharing my March card for thethe Lunar New Year Challenge. My card uses all Lawn Fawn product, starting with How You Bean? Money Add-On stamps and How You Bean? Money Add-on dies for my Lunar New Years card sending good fortune to the recipient. I stamped and die cut the pile of money and then used my Copic markers to colour the stamped images.

Paper Money: YG11, YG13, YG17
Coins: Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17

Since 2025 is also the Year of the Snake, I used the Lawn Fawn Tiny Gift Box Lizard and Snake Add-On to create the cute (yes I said that) snake coming up on to the card. His eyes are inlay with black and then I added some shine with a white gel pen. I placed a small carefully cut piece of black cardstock behind the head for the nostrils and mouth.

I used the largest die from the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangles to cut a piece of green paper from the retired Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Rainbow 6 x 6" paper pad. Next I cut the focal panel in white from the Large Stitched Rectangles. It was adhered to the green panel on the card base with foam tape.

To make the gold circle I used the Lawn Fawn Fancy Circle Stackables from gold sparkle cardstock and the Lawn Fawn Stitched Circle Frames cut from mat gold cardstock. The frame covers the scallops on the bottom layer.  The money was attached using Foam Tape and the snake adhered right at the bottom of the panel.

The celebrate sentiment is stamped and white embossed on black.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. We would love it if you were to link up to the challenge.

Please read the Challenge Rules HERE. You must create a new 2025 Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year or Year of the Snake card (snake birthday and snake baby cards are welcome)! Multiple entries are allowed. Backlinking to an older project is strictly prohibited.

Our March Lunar New Year Challenge will run from 12:00am EST on March 1, 2025 through 12:00pm EST on March 31, 2025. We would love to see you using products from our generous sponsors! The four lucky winners will be randomly selected from all eligible entries and announced at the start of the April Challenge. 

When sharing your challenge entries on social media, feel free to save this badge and post it along with your project. Please tag us @lunarnewyearchallenge on Instagram and use the hashtag #lunarnewyearchallenge so everyone can find and be inspired by all your amazing projects!

Color Hues Color Challenge #105

 Hi there crafty friends!

Never have I ever been so excited to see March arrive. I know we are still a long way to the end of winter, but we are on the back side of it now. No longer seeing those crazy negative double digits, at least not during the day. Next I'm looking forward to the big melt and thankful that we are at the top of the ravine we back on to so the water has somewhere to go!

Today is also the start of a brand new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Teammate Carol Mayne has chosen Green and White for the first half of March and for me that makes me think of St. Patrick's Day.

I started off using an older Concord & 9th stamp set called Brighter Days, it is still one of my most favourite rainbow dies even though it has been discontinued. I cut the panel first with largest die from Lawn Fawn's Outside In Stitched Rectangles. I stamped my rainbow with two shades of green. The inks are both from Catherine Pooler--Lime Rickey and Grass Skirt. 

I also used Catherine Pooler Clovers & Blooms stamps and dies to create a four leaf clover stamped with Grass Skirt set into the centre of my rainbow and popped up with foam tape.

Catherine Pooler's Lucky word die was cut from Spellbinders mirror gold cardstock and adhered to the card front just underneath my rainbow. I finished the scene of with Catherine Pooler's Lucky Charm stamp set, stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

If you haven't already visited the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog I hope you stop by and see what my fabulous teammates have created for the challenge. 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and I can't wait to see what you create!

Color Hues Color Challenge #104

  Happy Sunday crafty friends! 

I can't even begin to tell you how done I am with winter and the mountains of snow we have gotten this year! Today we are having another snow storm. Every window I look out has a wall of at least 5' of snow and growing. The snowbanks at the road are at least 10' tall and we are running out of places to put the snow! Poor Jax is wondering where all his grass has gone! So if the groundhog was right this should all be done in a few weeks--ha ha, not likely!

Moving on to something more interesting and fun, the newest challenge at The Color Hues Color Challenge has started. The Colours for challenge #104 were picked by my teammate Bonnie Klass and she chose fabulous Coral and Yellow!

I started off by stencilling my background using the new Concord & 9th Kristina Werner Love You Lots stencil. I used Catherine Pooler Do Si Do, Coral Cabana, Tiara and Catching Rays ink to for my background. It's such a creative stencil because the four layers fill a half sheet, 8 1/3" x 5 1/2", piece of cardstock. Once completed you can either cut it in half for two cards or score it so that your card is stencilled front and back. I trimmed mine down to 5" x 3 3/4".

Next I used the Spellbinders Diamond Plaid embossing folder with a piece of coral cardstock to make the background interesting! That was adhered to the card base directly with liquid adhesive. The stencilled panel was attached with foam tape.

The sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Birthday Wishes was stamped once and cut three times and glued together to make a chunky sentiment. The word wishes was stamped and die cut once. 

I added a few iridescent hearts to the card front.

If you haven't already visited the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog I hope you stop by and see what my fabulous teammates have created for the challenge. 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and I can't wait to see what you create!

Happy Lunar New Year - February

Hi there crafty friends, it's Tracey here with you today sharing my February card for the Lunar New Year Challenge. Since we are right on the heels of the 2025 Lunar New Year this New Year's card is a Lunar New Year card. This is the year of the snake and I added a very cute Lawn Fawn snake from Critters in the Desert!

I started off with a piece of light blue cardstock. When I'm ink blending a night background I find it easier to start with a panel of lighter blue and ink blend over the top of it. For my background I used Tumbled Glass, Prize Ribbon, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress Oxide Inks. Once it was dry I splattered Altenew Gold Metallic Ink over the panel to create a sparkley sky.

I foiled the Lawn Fawn Foiled Sentiments: Happy New Year on the Concord & 9th Poppy cardsock and then cut it out with a circle die. I added it to the card front with foam tape. I used some older number dies I have to create the 2025 using gold mirror cardstock.

I stamped the cute little snake from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Desert and then used the Lawn Fawn Critters in the Desert Coloring Stencils to add color to the snake and then used a Copic Marker to add some spots on the snake. The snake was also added tothe card front with foam tape overlapping the edge of the circle.

Visit the February Link-Up Party post HERE to see all of the design team projects and be inspired to create your own! You can find the Challenge Rules HERE. Please tag us @lunarnewyearchallenge on Instagram and use the hashtag #lunarnewyearchallenge so everyone can find and be inspired by all your amazing projects.

Color Hues Color Challenge #103

Hi there crafty friends, can you believe it's already February? I'm still wondering what happened to a June--lol! Today we start a new color duo over st the Color Hues Color Challenge. I'm so excited to be your host for the February 1st challenge and even more excited to feature the color duo of Pink and Red! Perfect for many occasions but especially fun for Valentines. 

I'm also excited to share with you that we are partnering up this challenge with the Inksprational Challenge! Details are shared over on the Color Hues Color Challenge blog from teammate and card maker extraordinaire Carol Mayne! This challenge our guest designer is fabulous Trina Pham!

I made another twofer this challenge by using an older Birch Press cover die called Cherish, I used Layer B which which leaves stitched hearts on the base. I cut it once from red cardstock, Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy, and once from Pink Lemonade, MFT Stamps.

The base layer was glued to my card base and then I inlay the opposite colour into the bases giving me two cards.

The sentiment "Hey Cutie" is from The Greetery's Hot Stuff! I don't have the dies, so I fussy cut the words he best I could. It took a few attempts--lol!

It's a bit harder to photograph so you can see the stitching lines on the red cardstock, but it shows up pretty good when you zoom in.

I am also posting this at Time Out Challenges #281!

...and also to AAA Colourful!

If you haven't already visited the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog I hope you stop by and see what my fabulous teammates have created for the challenge. 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and I can't wait to see what you create!

Color Hues Color Challenge #102

 It's time for a new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Teammate Stef Perry Gilson chose a fantastic pairing of Navy and Lime Green! I took the opportunity to use my negative die cuts to make two cards.

I used an older die from MFT Stamps and cut one from navy and one from lime green. i inlay the pieces into the opposite colour die cut. To make quick work of doing the inlay I applied pieces of double sided tape on the back of each die cut, then flipped them over and inlay the letters as well as the inside pieces from the B's, R's and A's.

My two A2 sized card bases were matted with a 5 1/4" x 4" piece of white cardstock. The celebrate tags were attached the card front with foam tape. 

One in navy...

...and one green.

Although this color combination could be suitable for anyone really, I'm always looking for fun masculine card and color ideas.

A celebrate card could be for a birthday card or as a congratulations card! 

I kept thing very clean and simple today but if you haven't already been please go to the Color Hues to see the amazing creations my teammates have made with these colours!

Lunar New Year Challenge - January

Happy New Year crafty friends, wishing you all good health and happiness throughout 2025. Today I'm sharing my January card and first official post as a designer for the Lunar New Year Challenge. The products I used today are all from one of this month's sponsors Catherine Pooler Designs!

I used the newly released Catherine Pooler Round of New Year for my focal point. I only used the outer ring of the die which cuts the Exterior Happy New Years ring so that as one piece. I did not cut the die apart because each piece cuts separately. It will always cut all the pieces and I can choose which I am going to use and save the extra cuts for future projects.

I cut it once from a 5 1/4" x 4 1/4" piece of red cardstock. I made sure I placed the die exactly where I want it on the card front, making sure I kept every single piece for when I did my inlaying. Then I cut it again from a piece of gold glitter cardstock. The gold piece was inlayed into the red front. I put a few pieces of double sided tape behind the words on the back of the panel and then I flipped it over so I could inlay all the tiny red pieces!

It was a bit of a labour of love but it looks so lovely inlayed into the card front.

Next I used Catherine Pooler's This Calls for Champagne stamps and coordinatingvdies to create the scene. I stamped out the images I was going to use with Copic friendly ink. I used the bottle of wine/champagne that did not have a top on it, the cork and two champagne glasses. I did some very simple colouring with Copic markers.

Wine Bottle - Y26, YG97, T6, T9

Cork - E31

The wine in the wine glasses was from a stamp in the This Calls for Champagne set. I used Catherine Pooler's Shea Butter ink.

I finished the card off by stamping Happy New Year from This Calls for Champagne stamp set in black ink in the bottom right hand corner.

Wishing you a Happy Lunar New Year!

I'm also excited to finally l have been able to let you know that after Guesting with The Lunar New Years Challenge since the fall, I'm now a regular designer on the team. I'm so excited to share my inspiration with you each month and I hope you play along.

Visit the January Link-Up Party post HERE to see all of the design team projects and be inspired to create your own! You can find the Challenge Rules HERE. Please tag us @lunarnewyearchallenge on Instagram and use the hashtag #lunarnewyearchallenge so everyone can find and be inspired by all your amazing projects.