Two Boy's Day Cards

With so much of my attention on Easter projects, I nearly forgot Boy's Day.  May 5th just crept up and almost passed me by.  To quickly create these cards, I looked into my stash of Japanese stamps and 'found' these old Mari and Me wood handled stamps.  I'm not sure if the company is still in business and I purchased these stamps many, many years ago.  In any case, it was simple work to stamp the designs on white card stock with permanent black ink and color them in with Copic markers.  After cutting the colored designs with a circle die (Spellbinders) and a Fiskar paper trimmer, I used a paper towel and ink pad to rub some color along the edges of the rectangle/circle. 

Because I have such an abundance of collected printed origami paper (actually a hoarded stash), I decided to use two pieces to decorate the card blanks.  Before adding the origami paper to the black card, I impressed the front using a Kaiser Craft embossing folder (Oriental half circle).  The stamped rectangle and circle were attached to the cards with foam adhesive dots.  For quickie cards, I think these turned out to be rather attractive.  Truthfully, I think the young recipients of my cards can't tell if I spent days or minutes on them.  I think most kids are just happy to receive mail addressed to them. LOL!