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Cards
 Each
greeting card is handmade using 80-105#
cardstock, and the finest paper. I try to use
recycled paper whenever I can. I sign the back
of each card twice – once in English, and again
using my red Chinese name chop. All of my cards
come with coordinating A2 envelopes and are left
intentionally blank so you can add your own
sentiments. I rarely inscribe the front of a
card with a greeting like “Happy Birthday” or
“Merry Christmas”, as I would like the cards to
serve as many purposes as possible. On special
orders, or if buying in person, I am happy to
use calligraphy to personalize the inside of
your card.
I get the ideas for my cards much like I do for
my collages. I am inspired by nature and the
seasons, colors, textures and themes. I love
using origami paper, as the detail is something
that I cannot replicate in my pastels. I started
out using multiple scraps of origami and cold
press paper, and layering them like a collage,
highlighting color and movement. I then started
adding leaves that I had collected from here in
the Northwest. I dry and varnish them, then
adhere them to the card. I also found wonderful
“skeleton” leaves from Thailand, kiln-dried from
the Bo tree (ficus religiosa).
As a minimalist, I don’t want to use anything
that isn’t absolutely necessary to “tell the
story”. This is why you will see a lot of single
strand ribbons or embroidery floss, a simple
punched design in a lower corner, or a raised
rectangle in the center of a blank field. Am I
being frugal? No. I’m just trying to accentuate
the main idea of the card.
Other design elements that have found their way
onto my cards are handmade origami cranes,
mizuhiki (good luck) knots, Asian images from
Japanese woodblocks and Chinese playing cards,
shells and tumbled sea glass, beads, braids,
kanji stencils, embroidery designs, glitter glue
squiggles, and miniature iris fold collages.
As I have so many designs, I offer only a sample
here, encouraging you to use your imagination
and come up with a color, theme, or pattern for
me to customize a special card for you. Some
special orders I have done included adding
wedding pictures and a monogram for thank you
cards, doing calligraphy in Spanish for New
Year’s cards, and making a special iris fold
Christmas star pattern for holiday cards.
Explore and enjoy!
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