Lunar New Year Challenge | Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to everyone celebrating today! I’ve been eating mooncakes galore for the past couple of weeks and I’ve been thinking about my parents a lot, mostly because they would be appalled at the prices of the mooncakes now. I've never seen such insane prices for mooncakes but since we only eat them once a year, I don't mind splurging or over-indulging a bit. ;) The Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival is a special time to gather with family, celebrate the harvest, give thanks to the good things in life, and pray for longevity and good fortune.

Today’s special card was inspired by the layout and colour palette of two illustrators, Zia Liu and denayunebgt. Unfortunately, Blogger does not allow me to link to their work. I was thrilled to be able to replicate Zia Liu's layout with the supplies I had in my stash, as well as one of denayunebgt's colour palettes. The bunny is the companion to the Moon Goddess Chang’e which is why there's one on my card design. Products I've used include Spellbinders' Rainbow Slice Tunnel and a sentiment from Glitter Wishes, Impression Obsession's Bunny Set and Trinity Stamps' Art Deco Dance Foil Plate. All but the sentiment are available from our sponsor Simon Says Stamp.

The cardstock colours I pulled for my card include Chili Pepper (sentiment strip), Buttercup (moon), Lemon Chiffon (bunny), Aqua Sky (top panel), Audrey Blue, Teal Topaz and Peacock Teal (foiled base panel). I cut A2 panels for each of the four teal layers and set them aside. First, I heat foiled the Art Deco Dance Foil Plate with Speckled Aura Hot Foil on the Peacock Teal panel and secured it to the card base.

Then I used the three widest layers of the Rainbow Slice Tunnel to cut the Aqua Sky (top panel), Audrey Blue and Teal Topaz cardstock. I cut the moon from Buttercup cardstock and applied some coordinating ink around the bottom edges for some shadow. The bunny was cut from Lemon Chiffon and Mirror Gold cardstock. After heat foiling the sentiment from Glitter Wishes using Speckled Aura Hot Foil on Chili Pepper, I assembled the card and added a few gold pearls.

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