Step by step project: A4 Egyptian themed card

This project gives step by step instructions to make an Egyptian themed A4 card, featuring a Dufex postcard topper, which makes a great focal point for a larger card.
To start with, I needed:

• Two sheets of A4 silver moondust card (you could of course use a piece of A3 card, folded);
• Blue mirror card;
  
• Kanban Egyptian icons backing paper;
• Dufex Egyptian postcard topper;
  
• Dufex birthday greeting toppers sheet;
• Kanban self adhesive Egyptian hieroglyphic ribbon;
• Strong double sided adhesive tape;
• Double sided self adhesive foam pads;
• Scoring tool;
• Pencil;
  
• Paper trimmer.

At this stage, I was also planning to incorporate some hieroglyphic patterned card as part of the matting and layering - but as the design progressed, I decided that less was more!
Score both pieces of the moondust card approximately 1cm from the long edge of the card. The scored edge will form the spine of the card.
Place the postcard topper on the reverse of the mirror card, and mark in pencil where you need to cut, to form the backing mount.
Cut the mirror card backing to size using your trimmer; cut out two of the Dufex greetings toppers (one is for the inside of the card); cut a backing mount for one of the card greetings in mirror card and cut a piece of the Egyptian icons backing paper to size for the front of the card.
Put double sided sticky tape on the back of both pieces of mirror card, the backing paper and one Dufex greeting. Put double sided foam pads on the rear of the Dufex postcard and the other Dufex greeting.
Mount elements onto one piece of the moondust card, with the scored edge to the left, as shown. Whilst the Kanban ribbons are adhesive, I'd recommend using double sided adhesive tape also, to make sure that they stay stuck down.
This is the inside of the card - I've stuck down the Dufex greeting flat, and added double sided adhesive tape. There are actually two lines of tape, but I've removed the covering tape for the first line, as there wasn't enough room to fit them side by side. Remove the cover from the second piece of tape, and adhere the front of the card to the back. I found that the easiest way to get the two pieces of card correctly positioned was to hold them parallel and upright (landscape) on a flat surface with the edges to be adhered at the top. It's easy then to manoeuvre the sheets together to exactly the right position.
Adhere another piece of adhesive ribbon to the spine of the card, again using extra double sided adhesive tape, to be on the safe side.
Carefully open the card and crease back.
Voila, the finished card!

Lots of new Dufex individual toppers and postcards

Lots of new Dufex individual toppers and postcard prints are now in store at Foil Play. These beautiful images can either be used as a flat topper for your card and craft projects or for decoupage projects (layering up decoupaged elements with foam pads from several prints of the same image).

A wide range of images is available, including fantasy scenes with dragons, unicorns and fairies, native american indians, animals (including wolves, panther, lions, tigers, horses, cats, dogs, dolphins and swans), religious themes, Christmas, new baby, marine, fashion, floral and more.

Some of the prints (like the one below) contain several different images - you can either use the whole print or cut out the different elements to produce several smaller toppers.