I have another milestone birthday card to share today, put together for a dear friend who recently celebrated her 70th birthday. I was running late and was a little short on time so I decided I would try to make a card using older cut files I made for past projects instead of trying to create new files. I wanted to go with a kokeshi themed card, so I paper pieced a few kokeshi girls dressed in washi paper design kimonos. Arched and shadowed "Celebrate" greeting in Benson font as well as the fan shaped background are older cut files created for cards in the past. The patterned paper I used for the card and gift card holder come from a digital paper collection purchased many years ago, "Happy Spring" by Nancy Kubo.
Inside the card, I installed the bottom layer from Karen Burniston's "Cake Pop Up" die to create a mini version of a hexagon pop up platform.
The double fans and large cherry blossom are from a very old Cricut "Pagoda" cartridge, and the bamboo is also an oldie I created in the past. I used a Lawn Fawn "Happy Birthday Border" die to cut the greeting added onto the fans. The number "70" was cut from glitter cardstock using Beach font.
Here's side view of the pop up platform where you can see the acetate strips used to hold the fans and kokeshi doll in place.
I kept the matching gift card holder very simple, allowing the patterned paper to do most of the work. "Just for you" was cut from gold foil board using a die from Lawn Fawn's "Gift Box" die set and the white shadow layer for it was created in Make the Cut design program.
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