Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year!

In two days we celebrate the Chinese New Year, which is on 7 Feb this year! We're very busy spring-cleaning, decorating, cooking, and getting ready for all the visiting and visitors and all the merry-making! We have the tradition of getting new clothes (from top to toe) for everyone, mostly in shades of red, and also the giving of Hong Baos (red packets or gifts of cash) to children and the not yet married. So you can imagine how excited the children are, they get a windfall, but we still manage to get most of it into their college funds!

In cosmopolitan Singapore we live very modern lives so this is a great time to get closer to our roots and enjoy lots of family time with our extended families.

So, a short post today, just completed this layout, almost similar to the last one, and still of Great Falls Park!! Haha, just couldn't pass up on the lovely photos! And that gave me a thought, I should have worked them as double page layouts! Well, next up! ;)
Credits: Background paper by TraciKing, Brown paper by Scarletheelsmedia, strip of journaling by Christina Renee, joined paper strips (re-colored) by SarahJones, flower by Serendipity Street , cross stitches by Annie Manning , letters by MissScraps (recolored) .

This is now available as a set in the store here

38 comments:

  1. thank you so much for sharing your templates - they are so simple, yet produce such beautiful results - you are a real inspiration! Gung Hey Fat Choy!

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  2. GREAT one again. LO too. Thank you very much :-D
    Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. Hope it will be a happy, healthy and creative year.

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  3. Beautiful template. Thank you!
    Happy New Year to you and your family!

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  4. You make such awesome templates, thank you so much for sharing:)

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  5. Thank you for the cute template.

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  6. Love the template once again, and thank you for sharing it! Happy Celebration to you and your family

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  7. Wow! Great Falls Park is beautiful. Great layout. Thank you once again for another fab template. Hope you and your family have a great CNY. We are so excited to celebrate tomorrow too, since it is our first year home with our baby girl from China.

    Hgs,
    Jonni

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  8. Thanks so much for a great template!

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  9. Thanks you for sharing you wonderful templates.

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  10. You layout, again, is extraordinary. It's like I can just reach out and touch the snow. :)

    Can't wait to see and hear more about the Chinese New Year. I presume you are going to take lots of pictures, right?

    Thank you so much for the lovely template based on your layout.

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  11. Great template! Thank you so much!

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  12. Thanks so much Yin! Happy New Year ; )

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  13. Thank you so much!! I love your stuff! I have been trying to teach my kids more about the Chinese New Year. Infact, we made decorations today. I hope you have a wonderful holiday!

    N.T.
    Utah, USA

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  14. Thank you for another great template!

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  15. Oh thanks so much for the template!

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  16. Thanks for the wonderful template.

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  17. Thank you for the great template.

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  18. Thank you for the wonderful template!

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  19. I found you through digifree. I really enjoyed meandering through your archives. Your templates are fabulous. Just perfect for me. I like to use lots of pictures and I'm just getting started so templates will help. You family is precious! I didn't leave comments on all the downloads and just figured I'd leave you a nice big thank you! I downloaded 22 files so...
    Thank you! Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!!!!!

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  20. Wonderful layout! Thank you for this very nice gift!

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  21. Hi - Happy New Year - I believe this year is the year of the Rat. Many thank for your wonderful templates - love them all and I can do so much with them. Many thanks a thousand times over. Cheers

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  22. Happy Chinese New Year!!! :)

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  23. Thank you for the template.

    Gung Hay Fat Choy!

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  24. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful templates and showing us your gorgeous layouts.:) I too dwnlded several and am going to enjoy working with them.:)

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  25. Nice to see you online again! Thanks for another wonderful template!

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  26. LOVE the template. Gorgeous LO! Sounds like a REALLY fun holiday!!!!

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  27. thanks so much for this multi-photo template. i definitely put this to good use w/ the current project i am working on.

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  28. this is awesome and I notice that now you use scenery pics in your LO instead of all human photos :).

    Recently I did a 2 page LO by extending your template. And I'm so in love with that LO.

    http://www.digitalfreebies.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/28512/ppuser/1831

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  29. This is wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
    mmikes

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  30. Thank you for another great template.
    I enjoy reading your blog and looking at your layouts.
    Gong Xi Fa Chai. Xin Nien Kuai Le.

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  31. hi yin,

    saw ur comment on my blog. yup, u can sure use that :). If you need a higher res LO do let me know.

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  32. I love ALL of your templates, thank you!!

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  33. Thank you - great layout!!

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  34. thank you for the template. i'm trying to make a photobook about our trips. it will be my first time to make one.

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  35. Thank you very very much fot your great templates !!!

    This is my interpretation of Template 19 :

    http://krizoscrap.canalblog.com/archives/2008/03/04/8199187.html

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