3 Ideas to Celebrate Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year falls on February 19th this year, and if you want to celebrate or document the holiday here are three quick and simple ideas you can use. The first comes from Hattifant, and is this delightful fold out dancing dragon card to share with friends and family.

You can download the free template in two versions: one is already colored in, or you can get a blank dragon to color yourself. Manja explains exactly how to construct the card and envelope before sending.

Use this printable red gift giving envelope with gold apple blossom design from Lia Griffith for cash gifts. The envelope is sized to the US dollar bill and the printable PDF is on one sheet of letter sized paper. I think it would make a great pocket for holding journaling on a scrapbook page.

Follow Tara’s instructions at Unsophitcook to make these decorative paper fortune cookies. A great way to use up some of that stash of patterned papers!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Last month was peak wedding season so this week I’m focusing on scrapbooking all those fabulous wedding memories. (Check out a collection of 12 fresh new wedding layouts from my post earlier this week if you missed it.) And today we’ll be checking out a fantastic Wedding Mini Album project so you can keep all the memories of that special day in one place that’s easy to carry around and show off to friends, family and coworkers.

Using the same collection in a mini album makes it so much easier and faster to create with no guess work on color scheme, pattern or style. Cheryl used the Simple Vintage Love Story collection from Simple Stories for her beautiful mini album project. There’s lots of florals, butterflies and vintage touches like postage, tags and tickets that come in sweet products like pattern papers, chipboard, foam stickers, rub-ons and more that coordinate perfectly together for a seamless design.

I really love the interactive elements she included in her album like flaps and pockets too!

Visit the Simple Stories blog to see more pics of the album and learn a bit about how she put it all together.

-Heather

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