It Takes a Long Time...

Hello there my crafting friends, I do hope today finds you all safe and well, BIG HUGS to those who are not.

I have in my stash some pretty Japanese style papers and wanted to use some but not to cover it up so I went with this...

The papers are beautiful, like gold foiled but not quite! Unfortunately the photos do not pick this up but the Gold round the flowers and lines along the edge of the patterns are sparkly Gold.

I started with my base card an A4 sheet of Centura Pearl White with Gold and folded it in half to form an A5 card.

I matted and layered this up with the Japanese paper and more Centura Pearl card.

For the top layer I die cut the California background and placed this in the center.

I made a fan out of an Oriental die using another Oriental paper, Black & Gold  and placed that in the bottom right corner,  using more of the same paper and some White card I die cut four of the tags from Scandinavian Corners Boarders & Tags, layered them up with the Black & Gold paper behind the White card then on one of them I stamped my sentiment and placed the two tags together turning them in opposite directions as seen. I hope that makes sense? This gave what would be one rectangle shape into a square, I placed this onto the card on the left side as a diamond shape.

To finish the card I added self adhesive pearls over the background, on each corner of the square and  three different size of pearls in the top & bottom opposite corners of the card.

Items Used:

Crafters Companion centura Pearl White with hint of Gold Card

Japanese Papers (own stash)

White Card

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson California Collection Background

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Scandinavian Collection Corners, Boarders & Tags

Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Friends Sentiments

Tattered Lace Oriental Die Fan

Oriental papers (own stash)

Archival Ink Black

Dreamees Pearls 4mm, 5mm, & 6mm.

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx