Step One

Take the Kimono template and lay this onto your piece of orange marbled paper. If you have the paper so that it is in portrait mode (so the longest side of the paper is the length) you will find the direction of the marbled pattern will be correct for the kimono material look. You may notice that for the Obi (the bit that wraps around the waist) the paper has actually been used in the other direction)   It is recommended at this stage that you hold the template in position with some low tack tape. Using your retractable pencil draw the smallest size shapes within each section of the kimono, as shown in step 1 marked by the red lines. 

Step Two

Then take the template and reposition it onto your piece of black card and draw the largest shape of each section. This is achieved by jumping along to the next cut line to the one you drew around for the smaller pieces. In some bits this will mean drawing some bits around the outer edge of the template. This is shown in the picture and marked by the red lines.

Step Three

If you are using any of the stitching or paper weaving elements, complete these now before you start to cut the sections out.

Using your craft knife or scissors cut all the sections out from both the black card and the marbled paper.  Then you need to stick the smallest piece of a section onto the larger piece of the same section, using a glue stick and placing it nice and central so that you end up with a neat equal border.

Step Four

Take your piece of oriental background paper and using double sided tape fix it to the sheet of the off white pearlescent card, so the patterned paper then has a small border to it.  Then take this and fix in the same way to your piece of navy card, again creating a small border. Finally using double sided tape fix the whole thing centrally onto your prepared folded card blank giving a final off white border.

Step Five

Using your glue stick, position and stick down all the sections of the kimono onto the oriental backing paper, making sure to leave a small space of about 2mm between the sections and checking that all the sections are in line and positioned straight.

For the sentiment a small Happy Birthday peel off was stuck onto the small scrap of off white card and this was layered onto the scrap of navy card to create a narrow border of about 3mm and this was then stuck onto the card using a foam pad to give it a raised effect.

Step Six

The miniature fan embellishment was made by using three sections from the fan template joined together, as shown in the diagram.  The piece of paper used was from the JS Marbled Cool paper block.  The paper was folded in half, then folded in half twice more, then completely unfold and each section where the folds are was then folded  again to create lots of small folds. It was then completely unfolded again and refolded along the creases with alternate mountain and valley folds to create an accordion effect. The end of the folded paper was secured using the cords from a small mini tassel and then the paper was ‘fanned’ out to create the mini fan which was then stuck onto the card using silicone glue.

Hope you have enjoyed making this card

Tina Fallon