ONE HAPPY CARP!

Yet another card! This time, however, for my partners birthday. Some of you (most of you) will be wondering why on earth I sewed a carp onto a birthday card. Well, when we went to the Oriental Museum in Durham, they had a "Happy Carp" exhibition on. This involved Japanese prints, as the word for "carp" and "love" in Japanese are (apparently) very similar and hence the carp had become a symbol of love. I thought this was fantastic and hence created a happy carp card that is both a happy-birthday-carp and also subtly soppy. It went down well! And I have used a shiny, sparkly paper for the background which I think sets off the sewing rather well and I might (depending on the theme) use it again in future.