This is my absolute favourite of all the papers I have bought at the Japanese Paper Place in Toronto. The little flowers are all outlined in gold. It's awesome IRL I hope Wha Ok will like it. She is a young Korean Christian who has an aggressive brain tumour and is not expected to have very much time left here on this earth. I have had a DCWV set of papers, embellishment and ribbons for at least 5 years and haven't used them a lot. The fan was perfect for this, but I had to use the backside, which I brayered to coordinate with the flowers on the paper. I had trouble heat embossing the sentiment on the fan, and finally did it on white cs, cut it out, sponged it and glued over the messed up sentiment. I added the little round gold gems and it was finished.
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Fri, Mar 07, 2014 @ 6:22 AM
I know just how beautiful the real Japanese papers are - we buy them in Paris when we go and visit the Japanese Cultural centre there. It's quite near the Eiffel Tower and they usually have an interesting exhibition on too, so it's one of our regular places to go. I know that it will be appreciated!! It's such a pretty card, Ina - I love the blues. And, if you hadn't mentioned that you'd had to stamp the sentiment separately to cover a boo-boo, I'd have assumed you always intended it to be like that because it looks great.