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.