Day 1 - Happy birthday card - Japanese lady

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Happy birthday card - Japanese lady 6" square card

Hi Craft Addicts!

Well this is day one of my challenge and so I thought I would write about this birthday card I made - just with two different sentiments.

The card is 6" square and is from Craftwork Cards - this has a floral embossed pattern on the right hand side but it can be any design or pattern you like. I then placed 2 lines of red Ultra strong tape (the narrow one) - and using Gold TODO foil added two rows to separate the embossed part from the main design.


I had seen that there was a beautiful image of a Japanese "Geisha" lady in Hunkydory's Little Book of the Orient which I thought would go really well with what I had in mind so I cut round the gold frame to make it fit and then glued it down using Collall All Purpose glue so I can get the position just right.

As you can see from both photos, I had a choice of 2 sentiments, both from the Tonic Studios Happy Birthday sentiment collection (Retro and Swirl) which I cut out in both gold and black cardstock and then glued them together offsetting them slightly so there was a shadow effect.
 I then glued them using Cosmic Shimmer PVA glue in the centre and bottom right hand corner. I then used Tonic Studios Nuvo crystal drops (gold) and added some "pearls" to the centre of some of the flowers to make them stand out.

Products and Items you may need to make this

  • 6" square white embossed card with matching envelope
  • Hunkydory Japanese Geisha lady topper from the Little Book of the Orient
  • Happy birthday sentiments from the Tonic Studios Happy birthday sentiments set
  • Gold TODO foil
  • Red Ultra strong liner tape (narrow)
  • Cosmic Shimmer PVA glue
  • Collall All purpose glue
  • Tonic NUVO gold crystal drops


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