One of the things I enjoy doing every year is making cards for Chinese New Year. I have many wonderful friends who are Asian and I love to make cards to send them to celebrate the New Year tradition. Gung Hay Fat Choy! 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit! Are you a Rabbit? I am a Dragon myself!
Usually my Chinese New Year cards are very strong and use red and black and gold (click here to see my cards from last year) but this year I went with a different color scheme. My card was all based on this wonderful sheet of paper I've had in my stash that is chartreuse. Since it's the Year of the Rabbit I thought I would shake it up, and go with a Spring/green theme.
I stamped the Hero Arts rabbit in black first and then masked it. Then I stamped the small Chinese lettering background in chartreuse ink…then I put the larger lettering over that with black ink. I ran the whole image through a circle nestability.
I printed out my saying from the computer so it would have a pretty font and the right color for the year. I do this a lot since I'm a font-a-holic! I think this looks pretty.
This is one of my favorite shots of San Francisco's Chinatown that I took in October of last year. It captures the exact feel and color of the area. Love to go here and eat and shop and take pictures!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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13 responses to “Year of the Rabbit – Gung Hay Fat Choy!”
This one is cool! I am a Tiger….Grrrr …lol
Keep up the good work!
The bestest! You’re just so awesome. Love the color theme, the small font and larger black font over it. Excellent!
This card is STUNNING in real life…I’m one of the lucky ones that got this card in the mail yesterday! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! I’m year of the Tiger like Mark too…a big GRRRrrr to him!
Stunning is the word! Love how you put this all together! Beautiful work, Wanda!
Thank you my friend for the card. I am also a lucky Chinese friend who received it yesterday. LOVE IT! Nice Asian paper colors.
another Dragon lady too…CJ
Oh wow wow wow, this is the coolest CNY card I’ve seen so far, I so WANT those stamps!!!! And I so love how you’ve used them! AMAZING!
And I also love that picture of San Francisco China town, love it there too, especially the bakery, hmmm…. this just make me so hungry, thanks for sharing! : ) And thanks for your sweet and fun comment for my little blog!
Love the way you used the stamps together so great…(don’t know what I am ..from March 1962.)Stunning with the paper and coin!
love the card and the colors! GREAT!!! and the pics of SF are so cool!
Oh, this is fabulous, Wanda!! I absolutely adore your stamping and masking and love the spring-like color palette. Amazing! And so is that photo of Chinatown. How I miss SF!
Absolutely amazing card Wanda! Love all the details and the DP is gorgeous!!
What a fabulous card!! I adore how you stamped the characters behind the bunny – looks great! I’m a snake…got any stamps for that?? lol :o)
Beautiful card, may I ask what the font is called? I have always looked for a font similiar to this to use with all the beautiful asian papers I love to make cards with.
Wanda,
I absolutely love your work. Gorgeous card.
Annie