Lunar New Years Challenge - May

Today I'm sharing my May card for the Lunar New Year Challenge. Check out this months sponsors below. I used both Lawn Fawn and Trinity Stamps for my card this month.

I started off by stamping and die cutting all of the images I was using for my card. Then I coloured all of the images with Copic markers.

Jar - BG0000, BG10, BG11

LID - T6, T4, T2, T1

Money - YG11, YG13, YG17, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17

Snake - R22, R21

Hat - V12, V15

Balloons - B02, B000, Y3, Y5, R22, R24

The background paper is from Lawn Fawn Spiffier Speckles and it was cut with the largest die from the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangles. I used the 12 x 12 version of the paper, but the 6 x 6 paper would work just as well. I linked to them both below.

Next I attached the jar and the external bills and coins directly to the card base, . I added the money inside with Scrapbook Adhesives Thin 3D Foam Squares. 

I put tiny micro dots behind the snake to elevate it over the jar. I did not trust myself to cut several layers of the snake and glue together without making a mess. I added some dots to the party hat with a white gel pen.

I did however, cut three layers of the white SSSSSalutations sentiment and then glued them together with the coloured layer over the top!

The Trinity Stamps Party Snake is such a fun set to use with the cute, NOT REAL, snake and punny sentiments. Matched together with the fun Lawn Fawn How you Bean? Money Add On makes for a cheerful Lunar New Year card.

Thank you so much for stopping in today and I hope that you've been inspired to look at stamp sets you have that are not from the same company and how you can combine them together to make something new and unique!

Visit the May 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 #109

Hi there crafty friends!

Today is also the start of a brand new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Teammate Marcia Hill is our hostess this challenge and has chosen Blue and Yellow as the colors for challenge #109

I used the new to me Concord & 9th Hello & Thanks dies for a twofer. I cut the letters once from blue and once from yellow cardstock and mixed them up to make two thanks sentiments.  

For both cards the shadow was cut from Lawn Fawn's Bitsy Blooms paper pack. The cardstock letters were glued to the shadow. 

...and the twofer!

Then the coordinating paper in the pack was cut with the largest die from the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangle. Once that was glued into place the Thanks sentiment was attached with 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!

Color Hues Color Challenge #108

Hi there crafty friends!

Today is also the start of a brand new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Color Hues creator Nancy has chosen Lilac and Aqua as the colours for challenge #108. I used a favourite, Simon Says Stamp Friendship Leafy Clusters stamps, stencils and dies for my card.

 I started off by cutting a panel that was 4 1/2" x 3 1/4". I stamped the leaf images from the Friendship Leafy Clusters with Catherine Pooler Pebble ink to cover the white panel. I stamped a sentiment from the stamp set on to the panel. It was adhered directly to an A2 card base with foam tape.

I stamped and die cut one leaf cluster to mimic, one leaf on the background. Then I used the coordinating stencils to colour the leaf with this weeks colours of aqua and lilac. They were stencilled with Salvaged Patina and Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide inks.This was added over top of its coordinating shape on the white 4 1/2" x 3 1/4" panel with foam dots.

I stamped and die cut friends from the stamp set plus two more from white. These were adhered together with liquid glue and it was glued to the white 4 1/2" x 3 1/4" panel.

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

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

Lunar New Yer Challenge - April

Hi crafty friend! Today I'm sharing my April card for the Lunar New Year Challenge. Check out this months sponsors below. I wanted to use something from each one of our sponsor's this month and I managed to do that.

The background panel which coordinates with the card base is Concord & 9th's clover cardstock. I stamped Catherine Pooler's Fan Dance using VersaMark ink and then, once dry, I cut the panel with the largest die from Lawn Fawn's Outside In Stitched Rectangles. It was adhered to the panel with foam tape.

I die cut oranges, orange sections, leaves and flowers from Concord & 9th's Citrus Crush dies using Concord & 9th cardstock and arranged them on the panel using selection of liquid glue and foam dots for variation.

The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn's Henry's Build a Sentiment - Spring. It was white embossed on Concord & 9th's Clementine cardstock and added to the panel with foam tape.

The card was completed with some of my favoutite Altenew Artistry metallic watercolor splattered mainly over the oranges.

Visit the April 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 #107

 Hi there crafty friends!I'm sorry that I am late posting my card for the newest Color Hues Color Challenge! Teammate Jules Peddicord has chosen Orange and Teal as the colors for challenge #107.

The last three days we have been in a state of emergency here due to an ice storm that has done so much damage to our property and to our town and the towns surrounding us. We have had no power since Friday overnight, it just came back on this morning. All the trees and branches had a thick coating of ice on them and we had 24 hours of them snapping and breaking and falling down. The sound was unbelievable, like fireworks! I posted a couple videos on Instagram and FaceBook if you want to hear what we were hearing. It was very scary! We had three trees come down on our property, our beautiful cedar, that it probably close to 100 feet tall, split in half and thankfully missed the house! It has been such a difficult winter! Anyways, we are safe and warm once again and on to today's Color Hues post!

I used the PinkFresh Studio Detailed Leaf foil die and stencils for my card. Although the gold pearl embossed sentiment looks really nice in real life on the teal cardstock it did not photograph well! In fact you can't see it until you look at the close up below.

After stencilling using Catherine Pooler Apricot, Orange Peel and All That Jaxx inks I cut the leaf cluster out with the co-ordinating dies. It was attached to the teal card base with foam dots which gives it lovely dimension.

The sentiment, the big flub, was embossed with Wow Gold Pearl embossing powder. Which as I said above looks lovely in real life not so much in the photo.

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 #106 - Lemon and Lime

Hi there crafty friends! Today is also the start of a brand new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Teammate Julie Beech has chosen Lemon and Lime as the colors for challenge #106. I decided to go literal with my card. The hardest decision was deciding which Lemon and Lime stamp/die sets I was going to use.

So the winner was Concord & 9th Citrus Crush stamps and dies. I will tell you it took a bit of figuring because the images are a bit larger and all of them as so much fun! I die cut lemons and limes in the challenge colours using carstock scraps from Concord & 9th, MFT Stamps and Papertrey Ink. I inlaid the sections of each fruit, cut a shade lighter, into the dies that had sections. They looked absolutely delicious and makes me so excited for the warmer weather to arrive!

Some of the fruit are glued directly to a white panel I cut with Lawn Fawn's Outside In Stitched Rectangles. Some of the fruit were attached with foam tape. Next I stamped and die cut the sentiment and that was attached to the middle with foam tape in the centre and glue over the fruit that was already popped up.

I cut both sizes of flowers and some of the greenery. They were attached with a combination of glue and foam dots. Actually I cut a lot and put the cuts away with the set to make a few more cards in the future! Sometimes using a set for the first time, making lots of cuts helps you in planning your design and the extras make easy work of the next card!

As I was cleaning up I still had the Lawn Fawn Fruit Tiny Tags and Fruit Tiny Tags Sayings out, so I grabbed a couple more scraps and made a tiny birthday tag. If this card ends up part of a birthday gift, I have a cut tag to add to the package. The tag, sentiment and green sparkle cord is from Lawn Fawn. The little white flower is a leftover from my Concord & 9th cuttings.

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. 

Thank you so much for stopping in and I can't wait to see what you create with these fun colours!

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!