The Lunar New Year Challenge is back and we’ve partnered up with your favourite craft companies all year long so that means there are giveaways every month! This month, we’re giving away ONE $25 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp, ONE $25 gift certificate to Lawn Fawn, ONE $25 gift certificate to RAM Stamps, and ONE $25 gift certificate to Waffle Flower. That’s a total of $100 in giveaways in September!
My first card for this month features some new favourites from our September sponsor, Waffle Flower. These include the Overlapping Christmas Words Stencil Trio, Overlapping Christmas Words Matching Die and Overlapping Christmas Additions Stamp Set.
I’ve only used two of the sentiments from this incredible bundle so you can imagine all the possibilities with the other holiday words in this set. Since we’re talking about Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year cards here, of course I’m using a repeating Happy New Year sentiment!
I chose a delightful colour palette that was inspired by a Mid-Autumn Festival illustration by the artist littleWhale. All of the ink colours used to stencil the letters and stamp the scripted ‘happy’ are from Concord & 9th: Poppy, Nectar, Harbor and Midnight.
To allow the die cut phrases to stand out, I chose a Midnight base panel, which I added texture to using Spellbinders’ Starshine Background.
After glueing the Midnight base panel to the card base, I arranged the sentiments on an angle, using a T-square ruler to make sure they were all lined up nicely. Once I was happy with the layout, I used foam strips to give them a bit of dimension. To finish, I die cut stars from Gold Glitter paper and added those to the card.
The rules are simple. You must create a new Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year or a 2024 Dragon Birthday card and add the link to your post in the link-up party. For September, we’re also inviting you to create Mid-Autumn Festival cards. Please see THIS post for more inspiration! Multiple entries are allowed. Backlinking to an older project is strictly prohibited.
Our September Lunar New Year Challenge will run from 12:00am EST on September 1, 2024 through 12:00pm EST on September 30, 2024. We would love to see you using products from our four generous sponsors! The four lucky winners will be randomly selected from all eligible entries and announced at the start of the October Challenge.
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Visit the September Link-Up Party post HERE to see all of the design team projects and be inspired to create your own! When sharing your challenge entries on social media, feel free to save this badge and post it along with your project. Please tag us @lunarnewyearchallenge on Instagram and use the hashtag #lunarnewyearchallenge so everyone can find and be inspired by all your amazing projects.
Thanks so much for stopping by and I’ll see you again soon!
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