Oriental Beauty Happy Birthday Card

Created this Happy Birthday Card using a digi, Oriental Beauty, from Stitchy Bear (SBDS), sketch from Mark's Finest Papers (MFP) Sketch with A Twist, embossing folders, Spellbinders, Japanese writing of sentiment (Happy Birthday - casual style) & colors Black/White, splash of Red and used Kraft cardstock as base.

Have been challenging myself all week so far to use a sketch as my card inspiration.

My daughter took a Japanese Art History class last semester and helped me with this card.

Printed Oriental Beauty digi on white cardstock & cut with Spellbinder die. Embossed red cardstock for front & inside of card. Printed Japanese "Happy Birthday" on my computer on white cardstock. Cut banner/tag for sentiment with Spellbinder die. Added ribbon & bow.

digi: Oriental Beauty Stitchy Ber (SBDS)
embossing: Cuttlebug embossing folders-
Oriental Weave- front
Plum Blossom folder - inside
paper:
7" x 5 3/4" Base Kraft cardstock
7" x 5 3/4" core'dinations black cardstock
4 1/4' x 5 1/2" core'dinations Scarlet cardstock - front
5" x 6 1/4" core'dinations Scarlet cardstock - inside
white cardstock
sentiment: Happy Birthday in Japanese (casual) printed on my computer
Spellbinders:
Nestabilities Labels Eight
Shapeabilities Ribbon Banners
 
Entering this into the following challenges: 

A Blog Named Hero Ch#9 Freestyle unlim 8/1-11
Anything Goes Ch72 Let's not be Square unlim 7/24-8/6 

Cute Card Thurs Ch228 Clean & Simple unlim 8/2-8
Delightful Sketch Birthdays 8/1
DLART Happy Birthday Linky Party Anything Goes unlim 8/2-31
Friends of Speedy TV Ch Die Cuts unlim 7/30-8/5
Getting Cricky Simply Sun Ch Summer Celebrations unlim 7/1-8/4
Gingerloft GL45 Silhouettes unlim 7/22-8/18
Hooked On Crafts Ch23 Let's Celebrate unlim 7/30-8/25
House that Stamps Built DCC81 Color Ch Black&White+OneOtherColor mine is B&W+Red 8/1-14
Kraft Journal Use any Sketch unlim I used MFP Sketch with A Twist Sketch 7/30-8/5
Little Scrap Pieces Fun Fri Happy B'day Ch 8/3-9
Milk Coffee Tic Tac Toe 3 in a Row lim3 2nd my TicTacToe is diagonal from bottom to top - embossing, digi, die cut 8/2
One Stitch At A Time Ch124 Use a Digi unlim SBDS 7/29-8/4
Paper Crafting Journey Anything Goes Ch lim3 2nd 8/2-9/12
Paper Play Ch Wk31 Layer It Up! unlim 8/2-8
Paper Playtime Ch80 Anything Goes unlim 7/30-8/4 
Party Time Tues PTT79 Anything Goes unlim 7/31-8/6
Simon Says Stamp & Show Ch What do you say? sentiment unlim 7/30-8/5
Simply Create Too Ch19 Anything Goes lim3 1st 8/3-16
Speedy TV Sketch with A Twist use twine or ribbon unlim 1st I flipped the sketch & used ribbon 7/31-8/6

Sketch with A Twist Sketch
 


Sketch with A Twist Sketch flipped:

Twisted Tues 2TC17 Free For All lim3 3rd 7/31-8/5 
Wags & Whiskers Ch85 Birthdays unlim 8/3-15