Sunday, September 25, 2011

Birthday Kimono

Another Asian inspired card, this one for my sweet friend Gene who celebrated her birthday earlier this month. Had been wanting to try a kimono card cut on my Cricut for a long time but just wasn't happy with the kimono cuts on the Pagoda cartridge. After doing an exhaustive image search on the web, I finally found one that I thought looked more like a real kimono, imported it to MTC and rendered it into a cutfile for my card.

Cut my kimono out of washi paper and added cardstock run through an embossing folder from Cuttlebug's Asian bundle as a mat.  Decided to keep it simple so the kimono would be the main focus. Then added a strip of the same washi paper on the inside to pull it all together. Sentiment was computer generated, using Quill, Pristina and Stewardson fonts.

6 comments:

Creations by Shirl said...

Eunice~
This is totally gorgeous, love the colors of this washi paper.... Very. very pretty and I know the recipient is going to love you for this..... Such a fab card!

Shirley N said...

Your washi paper is gorgeous, your card is lovely!

Have A Scrap Happy Day said...

Oh my, what a beautiful kimono card. And the washi paper is so pretty too. I'm hooked on washi paper.

Creations by Patti said...

Another absolutley beautiful card using absolutely beautiful paper, too. I know Gene loved this!!!!
hugs,
P

1LuvnMama said...

Wow Eunice! I just luv this kimono! You are so on it with these cuttings . . . sorry I've been away . . . busy, busy and the family has been sick. Hope to get back to visiting more often! :) Have a great weekend!

Sparkly Engineer said...

I have been looking for a good cut file as well. Could you please share yours with me?

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