Aiko name plate & card set

2 months ago, I was fretting about what gift to create for Sheryl. Had created a card for Serene, and an accordion book for YSL. So Sheryl should get something different. Wanted to do an altered frame but heard she had not much space to put at her home , and she prefers something practical. Hence thought of doing a name plate (yes, this idea for creating a name plate for Sheryl came first but i end up creating this http://icemaidenpalace.blogspot.com/2012/03/altered-nameplate.html for Anqi first.)

When I chanced upon Papermarket's blog post on their new arrivals abt 1.5 months ago, I knew I have to get the series of Aiko papers (http://www.mylittleshoebox.com/p1/products.html) when I saw the pics. Sheryl had mentioned that she will be going to Japan for holiday and I thought she will like the Japanese dolls prints. The Japanese Dolls are sooooo Kawaii and it is not often that those scrapbooking paper suppliers come out with Oriental designs. I bought about 5 pieces of papers from the line and chuck them at a corner first while I worked on other projects that are more urgent.

Spent over two nights working on the name plate. First night was to decide on the layout. I have quite a few options of papers to choose from and in the end, I choose one with clouds and the other one with mini dolls for the name plate.

Here's the completed name plate for Sheryl.

Since there are some materials to spare, I created another matching card for her. All done in 15 minutes.

And I like them cos they are so matching!

Supplies used for name plate:

• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- Blue Sky (2 pieces)
• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- One Fine Day
• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- Happy Notes
• Thickers-- puffy letter stickers in Pink
• Glossy accent
• Plain wooden sign board

Supplies used for birthday card:

• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- Blue Sky
• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- One Fine Day
• My Little Shoebox Aiko paper-- Little Princess
• Orange cardstock
• Glossy accent
• "Happy Birthday" stamp from Technique Tuesday

Don't think the local scrapbooking stores are selling this Aiko line now, so if you are interested, you may have to try your luck sourcing them online.