Endless Joy Lunar New Year January

Hi there crafty friends, it's Tracey and I'm back on the Lunar New Year Challenge blog today sharing my January card. The challenge is taking a break and this will be my final card. The past couple of years this has been a fun and really different challenge and has pushed me to really think about what I'm making. Thank you to my friend Emily Leiphart for all her hard work running the challenge and for all her support!

 This month we have 6 of our sponsors from 2025 celebrating with us by sponsoring this challenge, so we hope you are ready to participate!

The Year of the Horse starts on February 17th so for my final card I wanted to use the new Spellbinders Good Fortune Horse which is set off by my bold colour palette! The card features Concord & 9th cardstock in Poppy, Eggplant and a sheet of Almond from the Naturals collection. 

The sentiment from Good Fortune Horse was gold embossed on the red Poppy panel. The panel was adhered to the white card base with foam tape and set aside while I put the horse together. 

The horses mane, tail and saddle were all cut from gold mirror cardstock. I assembled the horse and I have to say the design of the die cuts are so well thought out. It came together brilliantly! I adhered the horse to the card front with thin foam squares for a bit of extra dimension.

The coins on the ground in front of the horse are from Lawn Fawn's How You Bean? Money Add-On. I stamped and cut some of the coins and then coloured them with the Copic markers:

Y11, Y13, Y15 & Y17

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.

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Color Hues #124 - Gray & Red

 Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. Teammate Bonnie is our host for this challenge and she chose the colours  Gray & Red! Perfect for a winter card and in my case a New Years card!

I used the new to me Poppystamps Nordic Bunny Bundle for my card.

I made a sweet gray bunny with a red sweater from patterned paper and cardstock! The background was embossed with the Spellbinders Diamond Plaid embossing folder! Then I cut one of the Spellbinders Essential Arches in white for some contrast between shades!

The foiled sentiment is once again from Spellbinders. It's the Misletoe Greetings Betterpress Die Set foiled in gold on red cardstock!

A closer look at the details of the bunny. It's so cute!

Thank you so much for stoppin in today!

Wishing you all the bet for 2026!

I hope this fun color palette has inspired you to play along!

Lunar New Year December

Hi there crafty friends, I'm back on the Lunar New Year Challenge blog sharing my December card. We have fabulous sponsors again this month, see them at the bottom of the post.

This month I used primarily Lawn Fawn products to make my card with a splattering a metallic gold Altenew Artistry Metallic Watercolors!

I created the card base using a piece of Concord & 9th Poppy cardstock which was added to a 4 14" x 5 1/2" card base.

I started off with stamping a die cutting images from Lawn Fawn's How You Bean? and the How You Bean Money Add-ons! I set those aside after colouring with Copic Markers:

Glass Jar: BG000
Paper Bills: YG11, YG13, YG17
Coins: Y13, Y15, Y17

The top sentiment was created using the Lawn Fawn Henry's ABC's Spring Sentiments. It was white heat embossed on yellow cardstock. I cut it with a sentiment strip die and added it to the top left of the cardbase. Red and gold symbolize good fortune, joy, wealth and prosperity for the Chinese New Year!

Happy New Year was black heat embossed directly to the card base using Versafine Onyx Black and clear embossing powder. I attached the jar of money and all the bills and coins to the card base. 

I covered the bottom black embossed sentiment with a small piece of post it tape then I splattered some yellow gold from the Altenew Metallic Watercolor pan over the card base. Finally I added the top sentiment and the little snake from Lawn Fawn's Critters In The Desert stamp set.

I hope that you can find time to join us this month for your chance to win!

Color Hues #123 - Pink and Green

Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. I am the host this month and feeling very festive I chose chose the colours Pink & Green!

I was so excited when Concord & 9th released the Yuletide Lane stamps and dies! I instantly fell in love with it! It was a bit challenging to work with only two colours but I hope that you enjoy seeing my Pink & Green creations. I made a four panel card and then I made a tag with my leftovers.

I started by cutting each of the bases for my four houses. I spent far too much time deciding of the order of my colours but in the end I like what I chose.

The Yuletide Lane die set has 36 dies! Lots of adornments to put on to the houses and some of they coordinate with the stamp set. My friend friend Carissa Wiley's did an amazing introduction video for the Yuletide Lane stamps and dies. I used that video for my inspiration.

After I die cut my four houses I stamped details on them using the Yuletide Lane stamp set. Those small stamped accents add just a bit of authenticity to these fairy like colours.

I started by die cutting lots of the adornments in each of my four colours. Then it was just a case of mixing and matching and decorating each of the houses. I tried to keep the order of the colours consistent!

I used Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust sparkle cardstock for all the snow pieces. the sparkle is so magical!

The houses die cut with a tab that you use to connect them together. On the last house you just need to trim that piece off.

This could even be craft room holiday decor!

I had lots of leftovers, including extra houses in the other colours so I went ahead and decided to make a large gift tag. I'm so pleased with it I'm planning on using up the rest of my leftovers and make a few more tags.

Sentiment from Lawn Fawn Tiny Tag Sayings.

Thanks so much for stopping in today, I hope my bright colour palette has inspired you!

I'm excited to see what you do with the colors for this challenge!

If you haven't been already please stop by the Color Hues blog to see what my talented teammates have made and see what inspires you to create!

Color Hues #122 - Teal and Silver

Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. Our fearless Leader Nancy chose the fun color duo of Teal & Silver.  Teal is defined by a darker shade of blue-green but I think we all have an idea of what teal looks like so I hope you show us what that is for you in our gallery. Please also welcome Loll and Joanne as our guests this challenge!

I started off by embossing a piece of grey/silver cardstock with the Concord & 9th Berries & Boughs embossing folder. It was trimmed down to 5 1/4" x 4" to allow a small white border. It was attached to the card base with foam tape.

I chose Concord & 9th's Oceanside cardstock for my teal and die cut my poinsettia from it. It's a Poppystamps die called Delicate Poinsettia, I just love the stitched details! There are three dies in the set and after they were cut they were glued together.

I die cut some berries from mirror cardstock for the centre of my poinsettia. I used the berry die from Concord & 9th's Boughs & Holly die set. The berries were glued into place. I also cut some branches from the same set with matt silver cardstock, I set those side while sprayed Shimmer spray on to the poinsettia and then I spray in with white acrylic paint spray. I hadn't used the white acrylic spray in a while and although I did a test spray when I aimed for the flower I got a big splotch but I was actually happy with the way it looks. The poinsettia leaves were curled up a bit for dimension and it was added to the card front with a foam dot. The extra branches were tucked in around the poinsettia.

The Merry sentiment is from Concord & 9th & Kristina Werner's Merry Greetings Builder stamps and coordinating dies. I die cut one layer from mirror silver cardstock and then cut two more layers from matt silver. They were glued together with liquid adhesive to make a dimensional sentiment.

To finish odd the card I added a few small silver foil pearls around the poinsettia just to give it a little more sparkle!

I'm excited to see what you do with the colors for this challenge!

If you haven't been already please stop by the Color Hues blog to see what my talented teammates have made and see what inspires you to create!

Thank you for stopping in!

Lunar New Year November

Hi there crafty friends, it's Tracey back on the blog today sharing my November card for the Lunar New Year Challenge. We have some amazing sponsors again this month, see them at the bottom of the post.

For my card today I used the Lawn Fawn Pull 'n Slide Surprise along with the cute Celebration Sssssalutations stamp set by Triniy Stamps. I started out by ink blending my background panel on a piece of Bristol Smooth paper. I used Distress Oxide Inks in Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmelade, Crackling Campfire and Seedless Preserves. Once dry I splattered the panel with gold Altenew Metallic Watercolour and set it aside to dry while I made the remainder of the card.

The image from Trinity Stamps Celebration Sssssalutations was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Then it was coloured with Copic markers and set aside while I worked on the slider mechanism.

All the slider pieces were cut out and scored from kraft and cream coloured cardstock. I stamped the front sentiment and then stamped the inside sentiments in green.

This slider card is actually quite easy to put together. There are not a lot of pieces. I glued the cute snake  the front of my slider so that when you pull it up the snake pops up with his birthday balloons! Here is a viwe of the top of the card.

The slider piece was attached to the card front with some foam tape giving it some extra dimension. Here is a view of the bottom of the card. So much fun to make and and sssssuper cute!!

I hope that you can find time to join us this month for your chance to win!

Visit the November 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 mand be inspired by all your amazing projects.

Thank you for stopping in today!

Color Hues #121 - Orange and Bro

Oops! I made a little error in the heading for this post, but so I don't mix up the links I am leaving it.

Today we start another new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. Teammate Sheri Gilson chose the colours Orange & Brown! Please also welcome Valerie who is our guest designer for this challenge. 

Autumn has been in full swing here with the leaves now off the trees! We have had a particularly gorgeous fall this year with not only colour but temperatures too. This week however we have seen frost, rain and snow which is nature's subtle reminder that winter isn't far away. 

Although the Canadian Thanksgiving was two weeks ago, it's never too early to start making cards for next year. For my card I used the Greetery's BontaniCuts: Mighty Oak for my branch and leaves. The leaves were cut from Concord & 9th's Creamsicle and Clementine cardstock. Then I added some more shading to them using Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide ink.

The acorns were cut from Concord & 9th Nutmeg cardstock and some kraft cardstock from my scraps. I added some shading to them using Fryed Burlap Distress oxide ink.

The pumpkins are from Lawn Fawn's Build-a-jack-o'lantern cut again from Creamsicle and Clementine then shaded with Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide ink. I added a little face from the same die set for the pumpkin in front! I finished it off with a couple more cute acorns in front.

The sentiment is an old favourite, Pretty Pink Posh Pumpkin Patch Critters. I stamped it on the kraft cardbase with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

I cut my focal panel down to 5 1/4" x 4" so that I could have a white bodrer around it. This is a bit fussier than my usual cards but it was so much fun to make!

I'm excited to see what you do with the colors for this challenge!

I hope you can stop by the Color Hues blog to see what my talented teammates have made and see what inspires you to create!