Chinese New Year blog hop - are you a winner?

Thank you so much for all of your support and excitement during the Chinese New Year Blog Hop festivities! Check out Em's blog here to find out if you're a winner!

Chinese New Year hop!

The very sweet and talented Em of Art From The Heart has organised this fabulous Chinese New Year blog hop!  Chinese New Year starts officially on Sunday 10 February but we decided to celebrate a little earlier to give you time to play with the FREE digis being given away!  And not only are there freebies, if you join in the hop you can win the BIG prize!  But I'll get on to that later cos I love to tease!

This is a long post, so settle in!  I have made two cards (as I do have a large Chinese family!) and here is my first make using the sweet Deasy Designs digi...

Oh he is soooo cute!!!  Both images and sentiment come in this digi set and I simply matched them up with Julie Billingsley Forevermore digi papers.

My second card (made for my parents) uses the very gorgeous Sparkle Creations Chinese New Year Rin...

I haven't done a tri-fold card for aaaages but think it worked quite well with these papers.  These are Crate Paper Pink Plum papers and I used the new CC Designs Cutters Cherry Blossoms die.  The ric rac ribbon is velvet so it gives it a touch of luxury and the border is used with a very old pair of Fiskars decorative edge scissors.  I have a whole set of these scissors that I don't use any more now I have my punches and dies - I really should give them away or use them!

Here's who you'll be hopping with us for a chance to win one of five fabulous prizes listed below:

Designers

Emily Leiphart

Alice Wertz

Chunyuan Wu

Kryssi Ng

Mary Johnson

Miriam Prantner

Pamela Ho

Sparkle Smith

Artists/Sponsors

Angie Blom Designs

Dahlhouse Designs

Deasy Designs

Fresh Squeezed Stamps

Lisa Hetrick Design

Avocado Arts
Mama Elephant

~ Prizes Worth $230!!! ~

Celebrate with us by leaving a comment on all designer and artist/sponsor blogs! Pick up your free digis and cut files along the way and create something for a second chance to win.  If you create something for the Chinese New Year, please post your project using the InLinkz Tool on Emily Leiphart's post.  Here's what you could win:

Lucky 8 Prize Pack

$100+ Value

Sponsor Prizes

Avocado Arts - 4 stamp sets

Fresh Squeezed Stamps - 1 stamp set

Mama Elephant - $20 gift certificate

Sparkle Creations - Chinese New Year Rin rubber stamp

I told you it was packed! You have until Friday, February 15th at 11:59 p.m. EST to comment or enter your digital project for a chance to win one of the five fabulous prizes.  The winners will be chosen via Random.org and announced on Emily Leiphart's blog on Saturday, February 16th. Winners will have until Friday, February 22nd at 11:59 p.m. to claim their prize. Second chance winners, if any, will be redrawn and announced here on Saturday, February 23rd.

So you should have come here from the lovely Kryssi Ng and you now need to hop off to the equally lovely Miriam Prantner!


That's it for now - I'll be back later with my Make It Crafty Valentine's hop and Bellarific Friday posts!

Day 2 of the All That Scraps new February release preview!

It's the second day for the All That Scraps February release preview and today we showcasing the Mashi's Muffin newbies.  Here is my DT make...

I used Mashi's Muffin Fan, Lines of Lanterns and AmyR Eggstra Special Sentiments.  I think Mashi's Muffin girls are always so cool!  I'm going to send this to one of my relatives for the upcoming Cinese New Year.  I added quite a lot of Stickles Glitter glue in Star Dust to the fan, lanterns and flowers in the BasicGrey paper to make it pop.  Here's a closer look...

I am entering this card into the Simon Says Stamp challenge for anything goes.  The release is this Thursday 7 February at 8pm CST.  Check out the blog here to see more inspiration and  link up to Inlinkz for a chance to win some of today's cute stuff and also get another chance to win by joining in with the Banner Blog Giveaway!

I will be back later with my By Lori Designs DT post and tomorrow with day 3 of the ATS preview!

Are you ready for Chinese New Year?

Well, probably not if you're not Chinese!  But I am half Chinese so I need to be

On February 8th, I will be one of eight designers showcasing Chinese New Year digis from various artists including Mama Elephant, Deasy Designs,  Lisa Hetrick Design, Fresh Squeezed Stamps, Sparkle Creations, Angie Blom and Dahlhouse Designs.  Please join us to celebrate the Year of the Snake!  You will be able to download free digis for yourself and be eligible to win a fabulous assortment of prizes including the one pictured below, as well as stamps from Mama Elephant, Fresh Squeezed Stamps and Avocado Arts!!!

I wish I could join in with the hop because that is one fantastic prize!  See you later with my Whimsie Doodles DT post!

  

Kung Hei Fat Choy!

Kung Hei Fat Choy to all my blog buddies, here is a card for you! Being half Chinese (the other half being English and Portuguese), we always use this as a good excuse to eat lots of yummy Chinese food and be with family. Well, I've done plenty of both this weekend and wanted to share a little of it with you all for your continued encouraging and kind words.

This is the year of the Tiger, but I don't own anything crafty with a tiger in it, not even a cat! So decided to do this week's Flower Power challenge for Anyone for Anya. I've kept to the oriental theme by using my Sakura flower punches (Sakura is Japanese for the blossoms of the cherry tree). I also used my Derwent Colorsoft pencils to give Geisha Anya a softer look and do you like that strip of black? It's stiff, coarse, matted fibre - love how it gives the card such interesting texture.

I also used Taylor Expressions's sketch below to make sure I joined in with Taylor's 100th sketch celebration! I thought it would be ideal to showcase the delicate Sakura flowers.

Chinese New Year lasts for three days, so two more days of celebrations to go, woo hoo! (Goodness, I'm gonna have to go on a diet from Wednesday...)

Papers/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock, DCWV Far East paper

Mediums: Memento black ink, Derwent Colorsoft, Sansol, Distress Inks Tea Dye

Stamps: The Greeting Farm Geisha Anya and sentiment

Accents: textured "ribbon" (got from Bunny Zoe's Crafts here), brad from stock

Tools: Nestabilities octagonal die, circle cutter