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Chinese Flower with Butterfly Card
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Signature Matte
18 pt thickness / 120 lb weight Soft white, soft eggshell texture
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Chinese Flower with Butterfly Card
Chinese Flower with Butterfly is a brush painting in traditional Chinese "gongbi" style. Watercolor and ink on rice paper.
The Cotton Rose represents sometimes a beautiful girl. The most famous type of cotton rose is "Drunk cotton rose” as its colour is white in the morning, then pink at the noon, and red in the evening. It's very precious and symbolises precocity, chastity and beauty.
In Chinese Cotton Rose sounds like the word wealth and glory, flower sounds like the word magnificent, so this combination symbolises "the inexhaustible great wealth and glory".
One of China’s most important symbolic animals is the butterfly. In Chinese culture, the butterfly is seen as a symbol of rebirth after death and an indicator that your soulmate has arrived. The butterfly also represents long life and happiness.
The Japanese word for butterfly can mean both longevity and joy depending on the context in which it’s used; butterflies were often depicted in traditional paintings alongside other symbols of longevity like peonies and other flowers.
Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Gongbi, or “Meticulous Painting”, has been specially favoured for its realistic technique and bold colouring.
GongBi is a careful realist technique in Chinese painting, the opposite of the interpretive and freely expressive XieYi style.
The technique calls for brushstrokes to “be as detailed as detailed can be”, uses highly detailed brushstrokes that delimit details very precisely and without independent or expressive variation. In addition, it tries to strike a balance between artistic expression and vitality, is often highly coloured and usually depicts figural or narrative subjects.
Gongbi requires drawing with fine lines first to represent the exaggerated likenesses of the objects, and then adds washes of ink and colour layer by layer so as to approach the perfection of exquisiteness and fine art.
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By Dawn M.16 March 2024 • Verified Purchase
Flat Greeting Card, Size: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm, Paper: Signature Matte, Corner: Squared, Envelopes: White, Print Quality: Standard
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Love this card - it's adorable. Attention to detail on both the front and back. Just enough room on the back for a quick note - but not so much room that you feel pressured to write a book. Perfect for me since I send cards to my aunt and cousin every week. printing is pawsitively perfect. Great quality card stock.
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By K.9 February 2021 • Verified Purchase
Flat Greeting Card, Size: 13.3 cm x 13.3 cm, Paper: Signature Matte, Corner: Squared, Envelopes: White, Print Quality: Standard
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The card I received was everything and more than I expected!!! It came ahead of schedule and was super accurate to what I designed. I am so satisfied with my experience and will absolutely be telling everyone about this site as well as coming back for any card or invitation needs in the future!!! Thank you, zazzle, soooo much for being part of such an important moment in my life, my son’s godmother proposal! The colors were perfect! Exactly what I wanted!! Great quality paper
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By Madison B.3 June 2023 • Verified Purchase
Flat Greeting Card, Size: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm, Paper: Signature Matte, Corner: Squared, Envelopes: White, Print Quality: Standard
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This card turned out better than I could’ve imagined. I love that I truly was able to customize & personalize the card – from the pictures in the “DADDY” to typing my own personal sentiments on the flip side… The colors and images printed onto the card are high-quality with nothing blurring together. I chose the shimmering pearl paper to go with the bow and provide a certain contrast to the black gift wrapping paper – a plain white card just wouldn’t do for me heheh The shape of the card looks like a baggage tag lol – I wanted this card to look like a tag on a package –
LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CARD, surpassed my expectations!!
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