Sunday, January 30, 2011

Rabbit Chinese New Year Card

Rabbit Chinese New Year card - Front
Made this Chinese New Year card in last minute for a best friend. It is a simple card and no embellishments used.

Card Positioning System (CPS) Card Sketches CPS 202
This card layout is inspirational from Card Positioning System (CPS) Card Sketches CPS 202 sketch/challenge as shown.

As the custom color for Chinese New Year is red, this card is no exceptional. This year Chinese New Year is the Year of the Rabbit. Thus, rabbit is used in this card.

Close-up : Rabbit in the center circle
The rabbit from Studio G Series 29 VC0008 is stamped on a red cardstock and trimmed circle. Then the edge fof the circle is distressed with some gold ink.

Close-up : Message "Gong Xi" on the left circle
The message on the left circle is "Gong Xi" and the message on the right circle is "Fa Chai". It is a message, "Gong Xi Fa Chai" which is a greeting use during Chinese New Year between people to greet and congratulate each other. It is loosely translates to "congratulations and be prosperous". The messages are printed using printer onto cardstock. These circles has been distressed with some gold ink as well.
Close-up : Message "Fa Chai" on the right circle

Close-up : Layers of cardstocks
The circles are attached onto a gold shimmering cardstock and later onto a red shimmering cardstock. Finally, it is attached onto a red card.

Theme : Rabbit and Red
Title : Gong Xi Fa Chai
Size : 12.7cm x 19.05cm or 5" x 7.5"

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6 comments:

Vera Yates (Ling) said...

The bunny is so cute! And thank you so much for visiting my blog & entering my giveaway. Have a great day! :)

Rina Damay said...

Hi Evelyn,

How Are You? Lovely Card.
Thank You for Playing my Giveaway. I hope You win

Good Luck

Rina Damay

Liz McGuire, said...

This is super cute. Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a lovely comment.

Liz x

Anonymous said...

Lovely CNY card. Happy New Year.. Gong xi gong xi.. :)
I love the bunny.. I didnt managed to make a bunny card :)

Thanks for your wonderful comment at my blog.
Fook is from the patterned paper, got it quite sometime back. I just use a puncher to punch it out. You can get some chinese letterings from Hero Arts. Check their digi stamps..
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Chan said...

This is such a lovely card! I love all of the shimmery materials you used to make it, and the rabbit is so cute! :o)

Beate said...

That is adorable.
Hugs and smiles