CNY - happy new year

CNY - happy new year, a photo by eatzycath on Flickr

another Chinese New Year card - design was based on the sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday Challenge #151 - Love Plaid

- the flowers stamp is from Penny Black - Floral Silhouette - this was coloured using brush markers direct onto the stamp which was then misted over to create a water colour effect before stamping
- the 'happy new year' stamp is from Paper Smooches - Christmas Sampler, stamped and embossed in gold powder

a 'close-up' snapshot of the colored flowers - love working with the brushmarkers using this technique and seeing the colors merge and blend beautifully

CNY florals

CNY card in light floral, a photo by eatzycath on Flickr.

today's Chinese New Year cards were inspired by this week's CAS(E) this Sketch #60 card design

as the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrates the beginning of the new year, I love using stamps of flowers to announce the onset of spring - here, I used the brush-marker technique to colour the stamps and misted the coloured stamp with a very light mist of water before stamping (to create the water-colour effect)

the flower stamps (Floral Silhouette and Casual) and the chinese seal stamp (Luck) are from Penny Black

Prosperous

Prosperous, a photo by eatzycath on Flickr.

With Chinese New Year just round the corner, I'm going 'oriental' in my card designs .... 

• Starting off with the auspicious colour of gold, the card base is a bright yellow card stock, topped with white card stock.
• Sitting on top of the white card stock is a smoky grey coloured paper, which has been stamped with IO's background stamp - Swirls, and embossed in gold - this was then fussy-cut along one edge
• a label die-cut on yellow glitter card stock formed the base for the chinese word ('prosperity') embossed in gold, and the row of New Year wishes along the bottom

Card design and colour was inspired by this week's Fusion Challenge #2

Spring Blessings

Spring Blessings, a photo by eatzycath on Flickr.

a simple Chinese New Year card to wish abundant blessings on a loved one ... this card was based on the following card sketch found in Freshly Made Sketches #119

• kraft-card was used for the card base - and also to stamp the dahlia and leaves (from Penny Black's Dahlias stamp set) which were then embossed in white
• using the technique (called white watercoloring) - I coloured the stamped images with a light coat of white water-based ink, followed by slight shading in red and pink for the dahlia and olive green and light green for the leaves - love the almost luminescent touch to the stamped image
• flower and leaves were then fussy-cut for affixing later with mounted foam
• the beige patterned paper was stamped using Hero Arts - Tapestry Script Background, and embossed in pink and red detail embossing powders, edged lightly with red distress ink
• sentiment in the bottom corner comes from Penny Black's April Showers stamp set - and embossed in white