Congrats, JP!

The son of some of our friends graduated from high school this year, and here is the card that I made for him. I'm quite sure I must have made a card like this before, but this is unique with his colors and initials. :-) I used my JustRite Stamper for the stamped part. Dies for the circles. QuicKutz dies for the hat and diploma. Cuttlebug folder for the embossed background. That's about it.

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Graduation Congrats

Someone at the scrapbooking (stamping for me!) retreat asked me if I could make a graduation card for her. Not having all my supplies here, I did the best I could. Someone had the sticker that I used - I added it to a piece of cardstock and trimmed it down. I die-cut the sentiment out of thick white card and also some silver cardstock and layered them together. I embossed the bottom of the card with a Darice folder, scored a couple lines with my ScorBuddy, and matted the panel with silver. She was pleased enough with it.

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Graduation Congratulations

The daughter of friends of ours graduated this year. Bummer of a year to graduate, but what can ya do? Her party was held recently. This is the card I made for her. The main panel was done with my JustRite Stamper. I double matted it using school colors. I embossed the top part with a Sizzix folder and the bottom part with a Cuttlebug folder. The sentiment is popped up.

I rarely stamp anything inside my cards - mostly too lazy! But I made an exception for this card. The main sentiment is from Paper Inspirations. The sentiment on the left is the last one that I made at Taylored Expressions last summer. The die cuts are from LifeStyle Crafts/QuicKutz.

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Graduation Congrats

There is nothing new about this card:) I needed a graduation card and this is a classic for me. But, since I share with you nearly ALL of the cards that I make, here you go:)

The top of the white panel was embossed with a Sizzix folder and the bottom was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. I scored lines between those parts with my Scor-Pal. The hat and tassel were cut with a LifestyleCrafts die. The school colors are green, yellow and white.

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Happy Graduation, Emma!

Our niece's youngest daughter graduated this year. Here is the card that I made for her. Her school colors are red and white. The background was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. The circles were cut with Nestabilities. I popped that panel up on Dimensionals. The graduation hat and diploma were cut with Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts dies. The diploma is also mounted on a Dimensional.

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Graduation

 We have need of several congratulation cards, so I had to take some time yesterday to get them made. It was nice to have a little time for card making. I've been spending a fair amount of time at my mom and dad's house, sorting through their things. We're still trying to decide what to do with them. I think I'm leaning towards an estate sale, but I'm not sure yet.

At any rate, here are two graduation cards I made. They are basically the same but with different colors. This first one is for a grandson who is "graduating" from pre-school to kindergarten. The colors in the picture are not very true, but ... The cap is actually a blue foil. It is cut with Lifestyle Crafts dies. The stamping was done with a Stampin' Up! stamp. I cut the circles with Spellbinders dies. The background was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. I matted with matching blue cardstock. The circles and the hat are mounted on foam squares.

This second card is the same except for the colors. The hat is black with a red tassel. The scalloped circle is red, also. It looks burgundy in the picture, but it truly is red:)

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Graduation Congrats

This is the same layout as yesterday's card, but it has a completely different feel to it. It's for our former next-door neighbor who I babysat until he was three. I can't believe he's graduating already! The school colors are blue and yellow, in case you couldn't guess:)

I embossed the background with an old Cuttlebug folder. The graduation cap was done with Lifestyle Crafts dies. The two stamps are from a retired Stampin' Up! set called "Congratulations." (It was in my stack of stamps to use, but I only used these two stamps and called it good enough.) I used the "faux embossing" technique on the "Congratulations" but it's not as effective as it is on green. The blue strip is mounted on foam squares.

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Graduation

This is the card I made for our former next-door neighbor. Her school colors were blue and gold.

I used a brass stencil for the books and cap. I used sticky paper and glitter with it. I used my JustRite Stamper for the personalization. The background was embossed with a Congratulations Cuttlebug folder. The matting is all Pacific Point and I used Dimensionals for the mounting.

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Graduation Card #1

I had two graduations to make cards for this year – a light year :). Normally I would probably post them both on the same day, but since I’m a little short of cards to post, I will spread them out over two days!

This first one is for the son of a good friend, who is graduating from high school. As you can probably guess, his school colors are black and yellow. I used the Cuttlebug Congratulations embossing folder on yellow cardstock. I sponged black lightly pretty much over the whole thing to highlight the embossing. The sentiment was stamped with a JustRite Stamper with Versafine Onyx Black ink on white and sponged with yellow around the edge. The white and the black circles were punched with Marvy punches, and the yellow was cut with a Nestability. It is mounted on Pop Dots. The yellow is matted with black and mounted on a white card base.

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