Lunar New Year Challenge

 

Happy first day of May!  I'm guest designing this month for the Lunar New Year Challenge.  

The is one of those great challenges that allow you to use whatever you might have in your stash.  No rules, just create a Lunar New Year card.  There are sponsors each month, and prizes too, but no requirements to use anything in particular.  This month's sponsors are Simon Says Stamp, Lawn Fawn, My Favorite Things, and Catherine Pooler.  Be sure to stop by the blog to access this month's link up and get the details on the prizes being offered.

Because it's the year of the dragon, and I happen to be a dragon, I had to make a dragon card.

I pulled out one of my favorite dragon stamps, Magical Dragons from MFT, and stamped the dragon and clouds on Neenah Solar White cardstock using Gina K Black Amalgam ink.  The images were then colored with Copics.  I used C1 and C3 to add a little depth to the clouds and R89, R39, R35, and R29 for the dragon as well as Y17, Y38, and YR24.  The reds on the dragon felt a little too red for me, so I muted them by coloring E07 over all the red areas.  The images were then fussy cut and set aside.

The die I used in the background is an older Spellbinders die, Chinese Knot Frame.  I cut it three times, centered on a 4 1/4" square piece of paper, and then from red and yellow cardstock.  I then created an inlaid background mixing the colors together to incorporate the red outline piece and some yellow sections.

I arranged the colored pieces over top to get the spacing right and then stamped the sentiment, from Simon Says Stamp's Joyful Greetings set.

The colored pieces were then adhered.  The large cloud and small cloud on the left were adhered directly to the card, and the dragon and small cloud were popped up with foam tape.

Thanks for visiting!  Be sure to stop by the Lunar New Year Challenge blog to get all the details on how to link up your card and be entered to win!