Centenarian Birthday

We were happy and very excited when we recently received an invitation to our uncle's 100th birthday celebration. This is the card and money envelope I made as our gift.
 

This was the first 100th birthday card I've ever made. Wanted to make it special, yet wanted to keep it simple. I decided to go with the traditionally auspicious red and gold color scheme for this Asian themed card. The crane (Tutti Designs, retired) and Asian geometric corners (Mama Elephant Money Envelope die) were die cut from gold foil cardstock.  I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut a round window, gold glitter frame and the red foil medallion you see in the window. An old cutfile I had created a several years ago was used to cut the Chinese long life character "shou" on the medallion.

Inside, I used Karen Burniston's Katherine Label Pop Up mechanism so the medallion would pop forward and up as the card is opened.

I used a Minc machine to add toner hot foil to the Happy Birthday sentiment on the left side of the card and the lacy lanterns on the right side were cut using a very old (now retired) lantern die set from Tattered Lace.

Mama Elephant's "Money Envelope" die set was used to cut the template for the Chinese style red envelope. The Chinese long life character and personalization were printed using a laser printer and hot foiled using the Minc machine. If you click on the photo above to get an up close view of the envelope you'll be able to see that the foil did not adhere to the toner too well. I used a text weight Stardream metallic paper for the envelope which may not have been smooth enough for proper adhesion of the foil. As I continue to use both toner hot foiling and hot plate foiling on my paper crafts, I'm slowly learning which types of papers are better suited for either method.