Sister Stamps Release #10: Chinese Zodiac Collection

Have you heard? Sister Stamps will be releasing their first two stamps of a very special Chinese Zodiac Collection this Saturday. I'm especially excited about this new collection of stamps for two reasons...one being that I've been waiting for and wanting a set of cute Chinese Zodiac animal images like these to use on New Years projects for the longest time! And secondly, because I was given the honor of being invited by Jenny to join her team of super talented guest designers for this release.

One of the nicest things about working with these stamps is that it gave me a chance for an early start on my New Years projects!

 

 

For my first project, I used copics to color up the adorable snake and horse to decorate a wallet sized calendar/appointment book.

This particular one is a two-year calendar, which really made it perfect for using both the Year of the Snake (2013) and Year of the Horse (2014) stamps.

 

Used the Make the Cut program and Silhouette machine to create and cut out the octogons, years and the kanji characters for snake and horse. Tiny sakura blossoms were put together using Punch Bunch and Carl punches.  Ran the gold octogon pieces through a Cuttlebug embossing folder (Asian bundle) and adhered everything to a piece of patterned paper (My Little Shoebox, Aiko collection) cut to fit the calendar.

Wouldn't you agree that these are the most adorable snake and horse Chinese Zodiac images ever? Denise did a fabulous job of creating these sweet critters, and just wait and see... you'll find yourself wanting to add all twelve of these cuties to your collection! Get a preview of all twelve of the stamps (which are scheduled to be released two at a time throughout 2013) here at the Sister Stamps blog.

And if you haven't done so already, you must go and check out the amazing projects created by the rest of the guest designers for this release. Here are the links....

 

Patti: http://creationsbypatti.blogspot.com/

Linda: http://simpleandsassycreations.blogspot.com/

Laura: http://bytkg.blogspot.com/