TGIF Peeps,
Yesterday I received a text from a good friend asking if I could make two Lunar New Year's cards for her two teen boys. Of course, I said yes, but then I had to figure out how as I really have nothing stamp wise that would work for the year of the Fire Horse. After looking up images for Fire Horse, I decided my best option was to try finding cut images in the Cricut store. I found two images that I liked, cut them out and then figured out how to use them. In the end, both cards turned out pretty well.
I used this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge for one of the cards. The lantern with the horse is the cut file. After gluing it in place, I used a gold metallic pen and colored in the top and bottom areas in the shade. The small stamped sentiment is from Gina K and the year die cuts are from Taylored Expressions.
The second card uses Spellbinders Betterpress Numbers, hot foiled with dark red foil, a gold foiled sentiment, and a Spellbinders embossing folder for the background. The Cricut horse was cut three times, once from white card stock and twice from red. I ink blended the white image and then layered it over the red images with just a little showing as a shadow. After embossing the black background piece, I rubbed gold craft ink over the raised areas.
I used the same images for the inside of both cards. The fireworks images are from Gina K and the sentiment is Spellbinders.
I think these will work for my friend to give to her boys.
How wonderful that you could come up with Lunar New Year's cards for your friends! I love your use of the sketch with the big die cut and the patterned stripes. Thank you for playing along with us at Freshly Made Sketches.
ReplyDeleteBoth are simply wonderful! Love that you could make these and a great use of our sketch. Thanks for joining us this week at FMS!
ReplyDeleteThese are both fabulous! I'm sure your friend will be so pleased! Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!
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