Lunar New Year September

I'm sharing my September 2025 card for the Lunar New Years Challenge. 

I made another New Year's card, one loaded with lucky lanterns. The background was made using Pawsome Stamp's Good Luck Lantern full panel stamp. It was ink blended with blue distress Oxide inks leaving it more white in the centre to create a glow.

 I love my metallic watercolours from our sponsor Altenew! I've been having some fun with all the different coloured metallics. I flicked some of the red metallic watercolour over my entire panel. It looks gorgeous in real life but it's a bit tricky to photograph, like pretty much everything shiny.

To add even more shine to the card I created a foiled sentiment for the centre of the card. The sentiment is from our sponsor Lawn Fawn, it's called Foiled Sentiment Happy New Year and it's one of their foiling dies. It was foiled with Gold Glimmer foil on red cardstock and then die cut with a circle die. 

I cut the background panel down to leave a small white border. Then I used foam tape to add it to my card base and then I added the red foiled circle sentiment with more foam tape. If you remember I left the centre of the background panel quite light, so when I added the red foiled sentiment it creates a glow around it and it really stands out! Here is a close up of the card centre.

The shine on this card is absolutely fabulous!

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

Visit the September 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.

CH #117 Orange & Green

 Hi there crafty friends!

Today we start a new color challenge at the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog! The new colours are brought to you by my very teammate Karen Walker! She has chosen Orange and Green and What a perfect combination for September. 

My mind went straight to Halloween! I pulled out some Tim Holtz because as we all know he does Halloween well! More on that as we go.

I started off with a piece of light grey cardstock and used Distress Oxide Ink in Hickory Smoke and Black Soot to create my background panel and fun clouds from the Tim Holtz Edison die set. I attached the clouds to the panel using Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Thin Foam Squares.

Next I created the star of the show the Tim Holtz Edison Pumpkin!

The pumpkin has three dies for the body and two dies for the stem. I cut the bottom layer of the pumpkin with neon green cardstock, the middle layer with a medium orange cardstock and the top layer with a darker orange cardstock. I ink blended some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink on to the edge of the top layer for some more depth. 

The layers of he pumpkin were glued together with liquid adhesive and the pumpkin was added to the card front with regular foam tape! This makes the pumpkin just a bit proud of the clouds. The neon green layer makes the pumpkin really glow!

Two googley eyes were added to the jack-o-lantern just for fun!

The pumpkin stem was cut from light green and dark green cardstock and then added to the top of the pumpkin.

I die cut 'boo' from the Tim Holtz Vault Release Gothic Portraits three times with black cardstock and glued them together with liquid adhesive to create a dimensional word. That was glued with liquid adhesive to the bottom of the pumpkin.

Here is a close up of the pumpkin, of course the layers show up much more in real life. This is my first Halloween card for this year.

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

Thank you so much for stopping by today!
I can't wait to see what you do with the challenge colours!!

Color Hues #116 - Blue & Red

 Hi there crafty friends!

Today we start a new color challenge at the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog! The new colours are brought to you by my fabulous teammate Julie Beech! She has chosen Blue and Red and wow did our designers ever bring a wonderful collection of cards, so many different approaches!

I pulled out an older Waffle Flower die that I have not used in a long time and made it into a birthday card!

The card came together really easily and based on how fast this summer is going I needed something quick and easy and most of all fun! I started by choosing two colours of cardstock both from Concord & 9th--Oceanside and Poppy! 

I used liquid glue to attach a  5 1.2" X 4 1/2' piece of Poppy cardstock to the front of my card base. Then I cut the Oceanside panel with the Waffle Flower die. Once the panel was cut I white heat embossed the sentiment on it.

It was also attached it with liquid glue because I wanted a snug fit for my popped up layer in the next step. I made sure I glued around each opening for a snug fit.

I had a bunch of blue Oceanside dots left over from when I die cut the top panel, so I added a few to the card with pop dots to guide the eye from the top of the card down to the bottom.

 

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

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

 

Color Hues #115 - Pink & Grey

Hi there crafty friends, we are at the beginning of the next Color Hues Challenge #115. Our fabulous hostess Carol chose the fun colour combination of Pink & Grey!

I was a bit challenged as to what to do, but who doesn't like a good challenge? I decided to make a fun summer card that could be customized for many different occasions! I love and have always loved the MFT Seaside Seagulls and that is where my inspiration began. 

I cut a grey mat for my card front to 5" x 3 3/4". I stamped a sentiment from the Seaside Seagulls stamp set near the bottom of the panel and then attached it to the card front with foam tape. I cut a circle from white cardstock and also added it to the card front with foam tape.

I thought the seagull would be really cute with a pink beak and the clouds lined with pink too! I coloured everything using Copic markers.

Copics Used: R22, R21, T0, T1, T2, E31, E33

The seagull and the clouds were added to the circle with a combination of liquid glue and foam dots. It was a really fun card to make!

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

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Color Hues #114

 Sorry friends, I don't have a card to share this challenge, family life has me on my tip toes.
Please go and check out the challenge over at the Color Hues and see what my fabulous teammates have created and play along your have two weeks!!

Can't wait to see what you do!

Lunar New Year July

Hi there crafty friends, it's Tracey here with you today sharing my July card for the Lunar New Year Challenge. Check out this months sponsors below.  

I used products from Catherine Pooler for today's card. My background was created with Catherine Pooler's red rubber Fan Dance Background stamp. It was stamped with Catherine Pooler Pebble Dye Ink. I chose to trim the panel down to 4.25 " square so the orientation would work with the rest of my design.

The sentiment was stamped on to the front card panel. It's from the Catherine Pooler Lantern Festival Stamp Set.

The lanterns are also from Catherine Pooler's Lantern Festival. They were stamped in Catherine Pooler Inks--Fiesta Blue, Flirty Fuchsia and Lime Rickey. I stamped a few of the chains and pulls for the lanterns.

Everything was die cut with the coordinating Catherine Pooler Lantern Festival Dies.

The two outside lanterns were added to the card front with liquid glue and the centre lantern was added with foam squares.

I had forgotten that I wanted to splatter the panel before adding my sentiment, but still possible. I made a mask with a Post It note for the sentiment and then splattered gold Altenew Metallic watercolor over the panel and set it aside to dry.

Thank you for stopping in today and I hope that you have found something that inspires you

The sponsor's for July at the Lunar New Years Challenge are:

We hope to see you play along with us for your change to win!

Visit the July 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 Challenge #113

Happy Canada Day!

and

Happy Birthday Mom! My mom is 94 today!

 Today is the start of a brand new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge!

I'm your hostess this challenge and in honor of Canada Day the colors for challenge #113 are Red & White! When it came time to create my original plan did not work out. Do you ever have one of those days when the bet laid plans just do not work--lol!

So the move from ink blending to coloured cardstock and a quick turn to the left and here we have it a new design! In honour of the holiday I made a Canada flag that is a bit wonky and fun.

A couple of strips of red cardstock on the edges to make the flag. Then I cut the maple leaf using a very old and classic die from Lawn Fawn called Stitched Leaves. I cut three of them and glued them together for dimension.

I cut the letters using MFT Stitched Alphabet in red and Spellbinders gold sparkle cardstock. Since the set has been discontinued I added a link below to the Lawn Fawn Oliver's Stitched ABC's which is a great substitute. They were glued together and added randomly to the card base with thin foam strips.

The words Happy and Day are from Lawn Fawn's Build A-Sentiment Spring. White emboosed on black and trimmed down and also added using foam tape.

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!