Friday 8 February 2013

Monochrome Chinese New Year Card

Hello and Happy Chinese New Year for Sunday!  This festival gave me the inspiration for this week’s card, which features a beautiful Joanna Sheen Chinese Vase Stamp and Cherry Blossoms cut with my Cameo Silhouette. 

Card Recipe:
Stamp: Joanna Sheen
Colouring Mediums: Versafine Black Ink Pad, Promarker Pens
Paper & Card: Elegance Satin, Stardream Black, Trimcraft patterned paper
Tools: Spellbinders, Silhouette Cameo, Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page
Embellishments: black velvet ribbon 10mm, crystals, mulberry flowers, rhinestone button

To make this card, I stamped and heat-embossed the Joanna Sheen Chinese Vase using Versafine Archival Ink.  I cut one image out using a Spellbinders Nestie and the other I cut out by hand, cutting away the back of the top of the vase, so that when I decoupaged it, the blossom stems would “come out” of the vase with the correct perspective.












For my cherry blossom stems, my Silhouette Cameo did most of the work, but I did use a ball tool to shape the flowers before attaching the black, fine cut detail.  The Cameo also cut out the chrysanthemum decoration which you can see as a background accent across the card.

I didn’t have the right colour mulberry flowers so I used my Pro-marker pens to colour these black to co-ordinate!  Black velvet ribbon provided further texture to this card, and the rhinestone button adds elegance, I think!


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30 comments:

  1. WOW!! This is stunning. I love the vase and the way you have arranged the wonderful Cherry blossoms. The PATP frames looks gorgeous and the detailing is just perfect.
    I hope you have a good weekend
    Sue

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  2. beautiful card lovely everything welldone on your gd spot xx

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  3. Fabulous card,lovely colours and detail

    Lorna xx

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  4. wow what a super chinese card love the black and white very striking ... gong xi fat choi ... that is happy new year in chinese ... not sure about the spelling lol ... just doing a bit of blog hopping ... hope you have a great weekend ... happy crafting and love sandy xx

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  5. Gorgeous card love all the detail. Chris xx

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  6. Stunning, as always with your cards, so detailed and creative

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  7. stunnig card,beautiful work. sue xxx

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  8. Absolutely beautiful card,
    Julie x

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  9. Beautiful card, very elegant.

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  10. Another stunner Dips, those cherry blossoms really pop off the page

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  11. Really stunning card, so dramatic and such attention to detail

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  12. Wow this is just stunning.
    Kaz.xx

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  13. Now That's what I call a card. Absolutely fabulous design. I love that vase, and the black and white colour scheme goes perfectly with the oriental theme. Wonderful! Maddy x

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  14. Beautiful hours of work I'm sure but well worth it to have achieved such a stunning card.

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  15. this is stunning the design is fabulous.

    Joan x

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  16. Such a gorgeous card, and lovely design. Phyllis x

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  17. Wow absolutely stunning - just hopping by - xx

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  18. Stunning card...beautiful design....Happy hopping...x

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  19. Wow this is stunning, worthy of a frame I think, gorgeous stamp.
    Just hopped over from Docrafts. :)

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  20. Ooh wow this is incredible, so striking! Have a fabulous week, happy leapblogging :-) Elaine-xxx-

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  21. Absolutely stunning!!!
    Sandra x

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  22. This is so lovely! Thanks for being our GDT at the Joanna Sheen Challenge! Big hugs Paula. x

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  23. This is gorgeous, a lovely image and the monochrome really makes it stand out.

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  24. hi dips ... have already commented on your lovely card but just wanted to say a big thank you for visiting my blog at the weekend ... have a great week ... happy crafting and love sandy xx

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  25. Absolutely stunning I love every single thing about it -just late hopping
    Carol x

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  26. beautiful card - i'm always struck by what a stunning combination black and white always make. thank you for this inspiration! and thanks for sharing with us at really reasonable ribbon! - vivian

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  27. Absolutely stunning card!!
    Anne x

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  28. wow!!! this is completely stunning! i can see that soooo much work has gone into it.. fabulous!! just hopping from docrafts

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