Boy's Day Waterfall Card

As a mother of two very fine boys, May 5th ( Traditiional Japanese Boy's Day) has always been a special day in our household. In honor of this day and because I've never made one before, I decided to attempt a waterfall card. (The instructions were found in the Spring 2012 CardMaker issue called Creative Cuts & folds for Paper.) The series of three boy stamps by Sister Stamps seemed perfect for this Asian holiday card. I made the waterfall portion of the card slightly wider because I didn't want to do the ribbon part. My Boy's Day card has washi tape on the cross piece and for the pull. The background paper is just a scrap of Japanese wrapping paper. I found that because this card is formed mostly from little squares of paper, it is a perfect card to use up scraps. Again on this card I used paper from the Artist Marker pad because it works so well with Copic pens (both available at Ben Franklin Crafts). In recent years May 5th has also been celebrated as Children's Day, so I hope that you will spend the day celebrating the miracles that we call children. Hug one today!