Today I want to share some of the fun and crafty goodies I received from my creative friends to celebrate the New Year.
Every year my mom makes plastic canvas refrigerator magnets to celebrate the lunar animal of the year and shares them with family at our New Year family reunion lunch. This year she had a difficult time finding a plastic canvas pattern for a snake that could be sized down for a refrigerator magnet, so instead she converted a cross stitch pattern I found online into one she could use for plastic canvas. I especially liked how she added a fancy frame and gold cording to accent the snake.
My sweet friend Lorna put together a ssss-super kawaii daruma snake paper piecing to embellish a wrapper for a treat package of ramen. She also created cute gift tags using a print and cut image of a Japanese ceramic snake bell with a gold metallic shadow layer.
My dear friend Bev created this show stopping pop up Year of the Snake Chinese New Year card. As always, her interactive cards have the "wow factor" and are amazing. If you'd like to try to recreate this fun card, the video tutorial by Peter Dahmen Papierdesign can be found
here on You Tube.
This adorable miniature hanging paper lantern and paper pieced Pochacco treat box were put together by my super talented friend Kris. The tiny paper lantern is very cute, embellished with shimmery gold blossoms and tassel. It's just large enough to hold a tea light and so pretty with the light shining through its vellum panels. The tutorial and free svg cutfile for the lantern can be found at
Craft with Sarah website. I think Pochacco looks just too irresistible dressed in his Mandarin jacket, holding a string of firecrackers to celebrate the New Year!
I'm very fortunate to have a circle of creative friends who always generously share their handmade treasures with me. Looking forward to another fun year of crafty inspiration from them!
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