Once again, inspired by Kristina Werner's circle cards: see example here. I don't have any special circle cutters, so I improvised by folding a piece of cardstock in half, then using a circle compass (from the geometry set I used during secondary school Mathematics!) to draw an almost-circle - leaving a 'hinge' at the folded part of the card.

Kristina uses such beautiful round dies to cut out lace backgrounds and such, but I improvised by using the snowflake kirigami technique to cut a circular pattern out of tissue paper, and pasted it on. I then built layers using tracing paper, old catalogue paper, and sentiments cut from a Paperchase Christmas wrapping paper.

Cherry Blossoms New Year

Chinese New Year card made for my darling Grandma who had never received post in her life. :) I was told she was very, very happy. 

Paper cut-out on red cardstock, using a brush design from a downloadable brush-set from DeviantArt… unfortunately I can no longer find the owner of those brush designs to credit her. Screwed up the cut-out a little, but it wasn’t too noticeable. Later outlined in black Aqualip (I told you I loved this pen) and then some cherry blossom details drawn in by hand and coloured using GellyRoll.