Washi Tape LOVE.

Finally, FINALLY got my hands on some authentic washi tape - and at an amazing price too!!!

I think I finally understand why craft bloggers are so crazy about this - I catch myself looking around my room nowadays, wondering: what else can I cover with washi tape? :)

Double Happiness

Congratulatory card for my cousin and his fiancee, whose wedding I will be unable to attend. :(

I found this beautiful Chinese-wedding-themed wrapping paper in Kinokuniya (cost a small fortune) and it made my life infinitely easy for this card - I selected a section of the paper, cut it out and centered it before splitting it in half. I like the double-door card for this because it feels like two halves becoming one.  

As a note to the significance of the design I chose for the centre of the card - this is a Chinese character commonly used in Chinese weddings - it consists of two 'happiness' characters, side by side, hence the name 'double happiness', and represents the joy of a couple coming together in matrimony.

I used Chinese-knot buttons (used for cheongsams etc.) as a clasp to hold the card closed. 

Thanks for everything!

Another really quick and simple card made, basically, using my entire set of Pilot Spotliter highlighters to make rainbows. I then added letter stickers and star punch-outs, and dots of glitter all over.

The Most Awesome Dad Ever

This is a variation on the previous paper cut-and-paste starburst cards I made - this was blue cardstock masked and painted with silver paint. (Will put a link up to the tutorial on my blog later)

Then I used a mathematical compass to draw a circle from the point of radiation of the starburst, and cut it out. Using that as a template, I drew the circle onto a square of tracing paper, and then messed with some fonts on my computer to design the sentiment ('awesome' and 'dad' are copied from fonts) I copied the fonts and handwrote the rest on the tracing paper using Artline Drawing System 0.1 black pigment pen, and coloured some of it in with blue and red Sakura Aqualip pens, and drew over the rest with clear Sakura Aqualip to give it a slightly raised/shiny look. 

Then I stuck the tracing paper behind the front of the card so that the sentiment showed through the window. I finished it off with dash lines in a white gel pen around the circle window.