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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Happy Lunar New Year!

Yesterday marked the beginning of the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar — it is also considered a spring festival, but you can tell that to the snow falling outside. I wanted to make a card to celebrate the new year, but of course don't have any rooster stamps! The closest I have are baby chick stamps — and while of course cute yellow chickies may grow up into roosters, I'm not sure it's quite the symbology I was looking for. ;) So I went to my fallback position of paper lanterns, used the current CAS(E) This Sketch design, and came up with this: 

For the lanterns, I found a tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers for DIY lanterns using die cuts and a crimper (I had to borrow one). Especially on the patterned paper, the crimping is very subtle. It shows up a bit better in close-up: 

I added a bit of emboss-resist sky to the top corner of the main panel; the branch is misted to colour it. 
The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge is Anything Goes, so I'll be linking my card there as well as the All That Glitters is Gold challenge at Shopping Our Stash.  
(I rotated the sketch 180°)

Supplies: PTI white cardstock, Memory Box Brioche patterned paper, gold pearl paper, PTI Uncorked & Paper Smooches Botanicals 1 stamps, Versamark & tumbled glass distress inks, pale gold pearl & Ranger clear embossing powders, Hero Arts spring branch & Spellbinder oval dies, Darice crimper, Mr. Huey's water cooler colour mist, glue dots
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6 comments:

  1. jenn shurkusJanuary 29, 2017 at 5:46 PM

    love this! super unique :) Thank you for playing along with us at simon says stamp wednesday challenge!!

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  2. Chris DringJanuary 29, 2017 at 7:06 PM

    What a fantabulous card Lindsey! LOVE that you flipped the sketch, and those lanterns! Holy crow! So cool!!

    And, thank you so much for joining the fun at Shopping Our Stash!

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  3. Tracey McNeelyJanuary 30, 2017 at 12:03 AM

    Lindsey your lanterns are fabulous. I love the colours you used and o think it is perfect for the Chinese New Year!! Did you gets lots of snow again on Saturday??

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  4. Leigh PennerJanuary 30, 2017 at 6:48 AM

    This is beautiful! I love how you rotated the sketch!

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  5. Barbara GoddenJanuary 30, 2017 at 9:15 AM

    Perfect card for the Chinese New Year, thanks for the tutorial link. great use of a sketch.

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  6. DonnaJanuary 31, 2017 at 10:22 AM

    Ohhhhh sistah this is soooooo pretty!!!
    Fab take on the sketch and thanks for joining the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH for our "All That Glitters is Gold" challenge!!

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