Urgent help please, Egyptian themed card.

**Sues** · 27-02-2008, 05:42 PM

I've been asked to make a 60th birthday card for a man, with an Egyptian theme, the customer wants me to include a photograph of her and the birthday "boy" on said card. I don't have anything remotely Egyptian in my stash and as she wants it by the weekend I've no time to order anything online. I had thought of doing a mini LO for the front of the card but am stumped as to what I could use for embelishments. All suggestions gratefully received!

**Fifi-T** · 27-02-2008, 05:56 PM

Do you have a photoprinter? because maybe you could find some egyptiany things on t'interweb like king tut or giza or something and use them as embellishments.

or else quick thought... erm... torn sand card to make dunes with a few pyramids and a camel in silhouette against a sunset and you open one pyramid for a message and another for photie? maybe

**shonam** · 27-02-2008, 07:06 PM

Been on wikipedia and there are a few nice images you could maybe use as background papers.

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Sure you could find loads more on google or yahoo images.

How about maybe try and find hieroglyphics. Colours to use - reds, golds, yellows, blacks. If you're doing a topper with happy birthday or another sentiment could you maybe make the paper you use aged with tea staining and crumpling it?

If you've got gold embossing powder, a nice effect is to ink the edges of your card with your embossing pad, dust with ink and then heat. Like inking it basically but a nice raised gold effect.

**HOPEJACK** · 27-02-2008, 09:40 PM

I too think I would go for what I can print out on the pc and use - decoupage King Tut's head or something or a pyramid?? Could be a bit tricky fitting in the pic as well though! Let us know what you come up with won't you - I'm intrigued

**Sues** · 29-02-2008, 01:33 PM

thanks for your input ladies. This is what I came up with, I used one of the heiroglyphics images as a background, torn and inked to make it look aged. The "pyramids" were cut frome fine sand paper the palm trees were cut on the Cricut along with the 60 which I cut 3 times, stuck them together then embossed with gold ep, the font used for the Happy Birthday is Papyrus. Hope she likes it!