My first trial of kurumie/oshie

After the attempt to make some bookmarks with washi doll on it, now I'm trying to make another japanese washi paper doll, kurumie or oshie. Basically you just cut out the paper out of the pattern and wrap each part of it with washi paper by adding thin sponge/foam in between. After you wrap all the fragment, then you have to put all the part together like doing a puzzle, simple isn't it?

Noooo!! because, first you need a pattern to do it, and after that solved, then you have to wrap all those tiny miny little part of it that can make your fingers tangled :). After I googled up and down I can't find any single patterns of kurumie, so I decided to take a picture of kurumie and copy paste it to words with a little adjustment to my desired size, and then I printed it. After that I traced the picture with my handphone stylus to the cardstock, then I draw the line along the embossed pattern with pencil, voilaaaa, here's my pattern :).

I know I should used carbon paper to trace the pattern, but at that time I didn't have any so I just use anything available around me :P.

And here's my creations .....

The pattern :)

My first kurumie, forgot to add the background, too serious making on it :)

Now it has a background :)

Card for Nara the birthday boy!

My lovely nephew Nara will celebrate his 5th b'day in April 10th 2012 (yes, I made this card on April 4th but too lazy to post it) and I promise to make a card for him.

Card for boy rather difficult to make in term of choosing the embellishment since you can't throw bunch of flowers' butterfly like for the girls. So here what I came up with :)

Please excuse the blue-ish foto, I must have push some button in my handphone :)
I use tracing paper for the front cover

Add some boy and balloon punch out

Use doily paper for the sentiment

Made some tag for him :)

Here's the final result.

Warabe Ningyo (Japanese Bookmark)

I've been into Japanese washi doll lately, first encounter with the paper, I definitely in love with that handmade paper, the texture, the image, all so breathtakingly cute. So, after back and forth googling find the tutorial on how to do it, finally managed to create these, enjoy :)