Do you remember the Nickelodeon interactive children's anime series, "Ni Hao Kai-Lan"? Although it only aired for two seasons, I thought it had a cute way of introducing Chinese culture to American preschoolers and was disappointed when it was cancelled. Anyways, I decided to bring little Kai-Lan and a few of her friends back in the form of a paper piecing on a birthday card for a very special friend.
Downloading coloring book images found on the web, I used Make the Cut design program to render Kai-Lan and Rin Too the tiger into paper piecing cutting files. I used the Silhouette Cameo to cut all the pieces from black and white cardstock and colored the pieces with Copic pens while they were still on the mat.
Decided to do another Wiper Surprise card. Pulling on the right and left sides of the card at the same time engages the wiper mechanism, and Ho-Ho the monkey holding a birthday message appears from behind the hills.
Played with cosmetic foundation brushes and Tim Holtz distress oxide inks again, this time to create the fun cloud and hills backgrounds. Lawn Fawn's Puffy Cloud and Hillside Border dies were used to cut temporary stencils for the inking and then the Hillside Border die was used again to cut the front panel to the card. A border of grass cut from Dienamics Grassy Border die was added to the bottom and embellished with tiny blossoms punched from Punch Bunch Mini Punches.
Ho-Ho the monkey and little Kai-Lan's iconic Good Morning Sun were also paper pieced from cutting files created from the coloring book images.
And lastly, I added a piece of blank cardstock bordered with patterned paper on the back of the card so I'd have a place to add a personal handwritten note.
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