When I had some foot surgery recently, I had complications
from the anesthesia and experienced four days of amnesia. My doctor went above and beyond the call of
duty during that perplexing stretch of time and I received the best care ever.
So at the very least, a card is in order. My doctor is Vietnamese, so I went with an
Asian theme . . .
I chose the image of the horseman because he reminded me of
my empathetic doctor who indeed galloped to my rescue during those frightening
days!
I used the Charlie
Chan font to type the sentiment. The
Chinese text is printed on rice paper which is very thin. So I glued it to a piece of cardstock to give
it some much needed body. The coin is
attached with my favorite method of dealing with the hole that's in the middle
of most such coins: I cut a very narrow
strip of black cardstock, push the ends through the hole, and insert a few
dried pine needles through the loop. The
ends are pulled through from the back and taped down. I use glue dots to attach the coin to the
card front. After covering the card with
a thin piece of spongy packing material, this arrangement has so far made it
thru the mail with no problem!
Cardstock: Neenah Desert
Storm, Generic rice papers Chinese Text
Stamps: MJ Barber Chinese
Horseman, Unknown Chops
Inks: Hero Black, Ancient
Page Cardinal
Emb Powder: Distress Black
Soot
Emb Folder: Taylored Expressions Weathered
Dies: Spellbinders Victorian Tags
Doo Dads: Chinese coin, dried
pine needles
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