Tag Archive | Chinese New Year

Year of the Horse 2026!!

Mar4

Sharing the Chinese New Year’s card I made this year using Inkadoo – Clear Horses Stamps and Extraordinary Chaos SVG’s for Year of the Horse Alphabet By Sarah Christie for all of my friends. This year is the “Year of the Horse”.

To make the card, used Recollections – Christmas card bases which were 5″ x 6.5″. The svg’s were brought into Cricut Design Space and then cut out with Cricut Explore device using Recollections – Matte Gold Foil cardstock. I had some issues with lines between the lanterns cutting out, so I hid them in Cricut Design Space and then was able to successfully cut out the numbers. I believe it was because I was cutting them out so small. The lettering was also done in Cricut Design Space using Dela Gothic One Font. The outer frame was die cut using a Cuttlebug, Gina Marie Designs – Nested Scalloped Stitched Rectangles and Recollections – Matte Gold Foil cardstock. The inner frame was die cut using Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card and My Creative Time – Rectangle Frame Dies.

Using a MISTI and Memento – Tuxedo Black ink, Inkadoo – Horses was stamped onto Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card. The image was coloured with Copic markers.

The card was now ready to be put together.

U-Line Double-Sided Foam Tape was added to the gold frame and the coloured image. The coloured image was popped up onto the gold frame and the gold frame was popped up onto the card. Liquid glue was added to each of the numbers and lettering and they were adhered to the front of the card.

For the inside, I created a sentiment and printed it out using an HP Printer. Google Translate was used to translate the “Happy New Year” into Chinese.

Card Recipe:

Stamp and sentiment: Inkadoo – Horses (99540) (Discontinued)

Inks: Memento – Tuxedo Black

SVG Cuts: Extraordinary Chaos – Year of the Horse Alphabet By Sarah Christie

Die Cuts: Gina Marie Designs – Nested Scalloped Stitched Rectangles, My Creative Time – Rectangle Frame Dies

Paper: Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card, Recollections – Matte Gold Foil cardstock, Recollections – Christmas Cards and Envelopes – 5″ x 6.5″

Miscellaneous: U-Line Double-Sided Foam Tape

Image coloured with Copic Markers:

Horse: E59 E49, E37K, E35, E33, E31

Sky and Clouds: B60, B01, B00, B000, B0000, C00, Colorless Blender

Grass: G99, G94, G82

Hope you like it and have a great week!

FYI: This is what the original lantern from Extraordinary Chaos looked like before I removed the lines.

Year of the Rat – 2020

Jan25

Hi Everyone! I’m sharing the card that I made this year, for the year of the Rat, for all of my Chinese friends and fellow co-workers. I couldn’t resist this adorable little mouse from Mouse Bites (Jaded Blossom). For me it is a very special year, since I myself am a Metal Rat! YAY! I wish for everyone to have a healthy, prosperous and very happy year ahead!

Just showing a few here. I made 12 of them in total.  Decided to keep the design for this card very simple this year. There is also a little rat on the inside of the card as well. I used Google Translate to enter my sentiments on the inside.

My friends tell me that gold and red are very important in the Chinese culture. So this year, I used Red – Recollections Christmas cards for my base and then multiple stamps from Jaded Blossom for the main images and sentiments. Using my MISTI to get a nice clean image, I stamped the images with VersaMark and then embossed with Ranger Super Fine Detail Embossing Powder – Gold. Then I used a Marvy Uchida – Embossing Heat Tool to heat up the embossing powder. The final result is what you see above.

Card Recipe:

Stamp: Mouse Bites (Jaded Blossom)

Sentiments: Chinese New Year (Jaded Blossom) – Retired Stamp

Paper: Recollections – Christmas Cards and Envelopes Set

Ink: VersaMark

Embossing Powder: Ranger – Super Fine Detail – Gold

Tools: MISTI – Most Incredible Stamping Tool, Marvy Uchida – Embossing Heat Tool

Hope you like it and have a great year!