The Lantern Festival signifies the end of CNY celebration

 

I am once again joining Erika our host this month at Art Journal Journey.  She asks us to use the color red in our art.

This is the final day of this year's Chinese New Year celebration.  Normally I would create the entire festival at the same time, but I wanted to save the Lantern Festival

because I knew there would be red in this page that I could link to Erika's theme at Art Journal Journey. 

Once again I was having trouble getting my camera to focus on specific parts of the page.

After countless attempts (actually 96!), I gave up and cropped the page to show the lanterns.

I did the same at the bottom of the page, but when I did, the sentiment color turned pink.  I noticed the button on the right that I used as a Chinese coin had  shifted down the page a bit because of the glue I used on these (E6000).

Every year I create a CNY post, and every year I learn something new.  This year I read that the lantern festival is also considered the true Chinese Valentine's Day.  Sadly, my laser printer refuses to print apostrophes. 

I was gifted with a partial set of Chinese New Year's playing cards, so included the Jack in the spread.

While the background joss paper on the left has gray and orange/brown in addition to gold, the background joss paper on the right is restricted to brown and gold.  The Chinese calendars are also considered joss paper.  The lanterns are German scrap and the "coins" are buttons with their loops removed using needle nose pliers.  This two page spread was created in my Stress-free altered book.

Bleubeard and I feel honored you joined us and hope to see you at Art Journal Journey with your own take on the color Red.