Saturday, December 21, 2024

Quadrilateral Cards for New Years

When I first saw this idea of cutting a square of printed paper into 4 on an angle to make 4 cards, I was intrigued. I love anything on an angle! But it still took a while before I got around to trying it. I made these New Year’s Day cards last year and hope to do the same again this year. 

Here are two of the cut pieces (apparently I didn’t photograph all 4 “corners”):


Because this printed washi paper had a directional design, I could only place the pieces in the corner that would make sense for the printed pattern:



A photo of the finished card:

And a close up of the kagami mochi that is symbolic of Japanese New Years. I was just learning to use alcohol markers here and was quite happy with the way the coloring turned out.



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