This Little Piggy- Happy Chinese New Year 2019

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!

This year is the Pig year. If you were born in the years: 1957, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007 and 2019. This year will be your year. A pig represents, lots of wealth, the best luck, great fortune, prosperity, and honesty. The pig also symbolizes, a peace-loving a hardworking person. Also a truthful, generous, indulgent, patient, reliable, trusting, sincere, giving, sociable person with a whole lot of humor and understanding.

I made this pig card to celebrate this Chinese New Year. I used the traditional Chinese New Year colors: Red, Black and Gold to make this card and hope you love it as much as I do.

The Black cardstock is 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 and you fold it in half as a card base. The Red cardstock is in 5 1/4 x 4. I used the Springtime Impressions Thinlits to cut out the Gold flowers.

The size of the White cardstock to stamp the pigs is 2 1/4 x 4 1/2. The Black cardstock layer piece is measured as 2 3/8 x 4 3/4.

Now is the time to stamp the cute piggys. The piggy stamps have some words with the images. I know some people will cut the stamp to separate the image and the words. I don’t like to do that so I wanted to show you how to stamp only the pig not the words or vice vasa. You can use the sticky note or Scott tape to tape the part that you don’t want to use as the picture below.

Then you put the ink on the stamp. When you are ready to stamp the pig on the paper, remove the sticky note before you stamp.

I wanted to create the look of one piggy standing on top of this pig. I stamped the same pig on the sticky note and cut around the image and place the sticky note pig on the pig that I just stamped on the White cardstock. I put the sticky note on the words and grass area for the standing pig. Then I stamped the standing pig on the four legit pig. Once you stamped the standing pig on the four legit pig, you can remove the sticky note to create the stacked piggy’s image.

I used the IVORY and LIGHT PUMPKIM Stampin’ Blends to color the piggy.

The standing pig was holding the flowers in the original stamp image. I changed it into a balloon to get some celebration festivities. Then I stamped Happy New Year on it. I think you can stamp “Happy Birthday” for this card as well.

Here is the card from different angle.