Spotlight on Graduation

Graduation Season is upon us.  I have 3 grand-nieces/nephews graduating so I need to get to making some grad cards!

The back panel of this card was made by scoring lines and then dragging ink pads down the paper.  Such a fun technique.  You can use any color or mix them.

On the image panel, I used Graduating Pig and River Rocks & Fence Line 2 in 1 using watercolors to color them up.  For my sentiment, I cut up the new Special Person Birthday Greeting cutting out the birthday part and using the last line on the inside.  It still needed something, so I used this CTMH circle die to spotlight Leonard.  Super fun!

Hope you are having a wonderful week so far.  

Hugz,

Nancy

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Follow Your Heart

I have a couple of cards for you today. Both use the same sentiment and are graduation cards. I am trying to get my graduation cards ready with the season quickly approaching. 

For my first card

• I used my Cricut to cut out a graduate stencil and once the stencil was cut I placed it on my card base.
• I then sponged red around the stencil leaving the graduate uncolored.
• Next, I stamped the GO WITH THE FLOW FOLLOW YOUR HEART GREETING - 1049E in red in the center of the graduate and finished with a few scattered hearts.

For my second card:

• I used a graduation cap stencil and stenciled that just along the left side of the card base.
• Next, I stamped the GO WITH THE FLOW FOLLOW YOUR HEART GREETING - 1049E in red and layered that on a red card stock.
• This card was finished with some scattered clear sequins.

Two different cards with the same sentiment. I hope this inspires you to create a few graduation cards with this perfect sentiment for a new graduate.

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out my cards this week.

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Congratulations Grad!

 

    I am slowly trying to build up my graduation cards again. It seems as soon as I make one it is already out the door.

•  For this card, I used the fun GRADUATION PIG - 567E stamped on white card stock then colored with copics. I then layered it on gold foil designer paper.

•  For the strip under GRADUATION PIG - 567E I stamped GRAD HAT HOORAY! - 889G then also mounted that on the same gold foil designer paper.

•  The sentiment I just used a portion of the GRAD SAYING - 622G and white heat embossed it on the lower portion of the card to keep it very clean and simple.

     Thank you for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Let the Adventure Begin

 

It is time for me to start my graduation cards and DRS Designs has some great stamps to help with cards. For my card this week:

• The GRADUATION BACKGROUND - 984H was stamped 4 times on the white card base then colored with copics.
• Next, I stamped the LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN GREETING - 615E and die cut the sentiment layering on red card stock.
• The front of the card was finished with a graduation cap and diploma sticker from my stash.

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I finished the inside of the card stamping the TASSEL - 007D and then coloring it with copics in reds to mirror the red on the front of the card.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Summertime

Hi Everyone,

It's officially summer and in my opinion, margaritas are the ultimate adult summer beverage. The lime, the icy bits...the SALT! They're even good minus the tequila.  Just add some simple syrup, a fresh squeezed orange to the lime juice, (and a splash of fizzy water for some pizazz) and you're in business. Mmmmmm...I think I should have titled the post Taco Tuesday, because I think I know what's for dinner now!

For this first card I inked up a citrus embossing folder to create the background, and stamped colored and fussy cut the Margarita Glass, adding some glitter glue to the rim for the salt.  I heat embossed the Citrus Slice and attached everything along with the Toes in the Sand Birthday Greeting.

Here is another graduation card I made, because, tis the season!  I copied the layout from my last graduation card here, I just changed up the school colors and added the bee, since that's the school mascot.  

Here are the stamps I used:
Graduation is The Beginning Verse

Grad Hat Hooray

Happy Bee

Here's hoping your summer is in full swing!  Thanks for stopping by!
Karin

 

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Graduation Season

 

This year I have needed a bunch of graduation cards. For a very quick and perfect graduation card for any graduate this TASSEL - 007D can be colored in any color to match any school. For my card I colored it with copics.

GRADUATION IS THE BEGINNING VERSE - 848G is a very fitting sentiment for the graduates.

For the base I heat embossed in clear GRAD HAT HOORAY! - 889G on black cardstock.

The image and sentiment were cut, popped up on dimensionals and the card base rounded to mirror the cut on the image layer.

If you need a quick graduation card it does not get much quicker than this.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Summer Cards

Hi Everyone,

I know it's not officially summer yet, but it's 90F degrees here, so I feel like it's in full swing! Here are a couple of cards to kick off the season.

This card I made a while ago, but I'm happy to share the beachy themed card today.  The beach just screams summer, and vacation, and relaxation, and happiness, and...! It's all goodness in my book.

I sponged some ink onto the background and the beach themed greeting too.  I made the beachy background by adding die cut wavy ric rack for water and some Splatter Background stamped sand.  A punched sun, die cut flip flops and some stamped and fussy cut starfish completed the card.  

A friend's son graduated from military school, so I chose to make him a patriotic graduation card. Red. white and blue says American summertime to me as well, so it's reflects the time of year for this milestone too.

I dry embossed the background and added a stamped panel made using Grad Hat Hooray.  The Graduation is the Beginning sentiment was die cut and I embossed and fussy cut the Brush Mortarboard, adding it with some pop dots.

 

Since this card was being sent to a guy, I resisted the urge to add gemstones and just added a gift inside...lol!

Here hoping the summer season is off to a happy start for you!
Karin

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Graduation

This years graduates will hold a special place in my heart. Not just because I know a couple of people that are graduating, but because of how many won't have a chance to see their friends again for the rest of the school year. And, ceremonies and parties are being cancelled. So I am working hard to create as many graduation cards as I can to let those seniors know I am thinking about them.

This Graduation is the Beginning verse is perfect for this years graduates. I die cut the scroll and sponged brown, yellow and pale green to darken up the color. The white base is embossed. Then I stamped the Brush Mortarboard and colored  it with copics. Once colored I fussy cut and added some white gel pen for highlights.

The card was finished off with punched stars and sequins.

Congratulations to all the seniors this year.

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Let the Adventure Begin

Let the Adventure BEGIN!

I am excited to post my first card on the DRS Designs Blog today. I thought this card title was perfect for my first post.

I hope everyone is enjoying some crafty time with everything that is going on right now. I know I have been getting lots of wonderful time in my craft room.

With many friends kids graduating this year I knew I needed to make lots of special graduation cards as we might not get to celebrate graduations. So I am taking a lot of time creating wonderful cards for these kids.

Using the Tassel Stamp I stamped several across the card base. Cut down the white layer and trimmed with gold card stock then layered on a black card base.

I thought let the Adventure BEGIN Greeting was a great sentiment for these graduates. Stamped that on white card stock and layered on gold card stock and popped on dimensionals.

I finished the card off with some gold stars and graduation stickers.

Thank you so much for checking out my card. I hope it inspires you for a few graduation cards for the wonderful  graduates in your life.

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Unusual Wreaths

I love wreath cards, and today I have some unusual ones!

My first one is a beach themed wreath featuring the new 4 in 1 Fashion Accessories and the new 4 in 1 Ocean Designs. The wreath was made with kraft paper and foliage dies from the Tim Holtz Holiday Greens Thinlet set. After I arranged all the die cuts into a wreath, I splattered on some white acrylic paint - looks more coastal that way.  To get my wreath embellishments, I stamped the bag from the fashion accessories and the sailboat from the ocean designs, colored them up with some water colors, and then fussy cut them.  I also used Splash the Dolphin and the Splish Splash greeting stamp.

The next card is a graduation card I made and the promptly lost.  I found it this weekend when I was cleaning out my craft room.  I stamped the Grad Hat Hooray! background stamp several times and then fussy cut a bunch of them out to make the wreath.  Next, I made the background panel using the wrinkle free distress technique.  The black spots were an experiment - I added some Versafine Black Onyx reinker on the foil as well.  It did not mix with the water and produced this spotted bg.  I like how it looks with hats - kind of gives and impressionistic flying hat look.  The greetings is the Hats Off Graduation Greeting, but I fussy cut it so it looks like two stamps. 

I really enjoyed making both of these cards, but I totally love to fussy cut an image.  

Hope your week is going well!

Hugz,

Nancy

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Water, Water, Water!

It has been hot, hot, hot here in Central Alabama.  I would love to be at the lake, a swimming pool, or some type of water.  I had to settle for making some cards with water scenes instead.  My first card was made by inking up a panel in Pacific Point and then stamping Vicki's Versatile Background in the same color.  Next, I stamped on two of the fish from 4 in 1 Ocean Designs and then coloring them in with a Sharpie pen.  I added on some eyes with white paint and then stamped the Eyes for You Greeting.  On the back panel, I stamped the same fish in Sahara Sand.

My next card was made this weekend and was inspired by THIS lovely picture at Ballard Designs which was the inspiration site at Splitcoaststampers.com.  After painting up the scene in watercolors, I stamped the Dreams Inspire Future Greeting. 

Hope your week is going well!

Hugz,

Nancy

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Missing You

Hi Everyone,

With Memorial Day behind us on the calender, it's the unofficial beginning of summer, so I have mini summer like scene on my card share today.

Leonard, from the new Leonard Pig Flies a Kite stamp makes an appearance here.  I stamped multiple hot air balloons from the 4 in 1 In the Sky stamp to complete the little scene.  I embossed 1/2 of my background with kites, and added some die cut clouds to the blue half to mimic the sky.

For a sentiment, I stamped the new Missing You Pig Time inside one of the frames from the Wooden Frame Collection stamp, fussy cutting it and attaching as you see here. 

I needed to make a masculine graduation card, so I chose the Follow Your Dreams stamp for my main image, which I then colored, die cut and matted.

Neutral colors are always more masculine to me, so I created the background using the Grad Hat Hooray and Splatter Background stamps in black and brown ink.

Before attaching the image, I added a strip of splatter stamped cardstock that was layered on to a punched border, and wrapped with some matching twine. 

 Again, twine more masculine than ribbon to me :)  And since the image has a sentiment right on it, I was able to call this card done!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Karin

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Grad Frame

Welcome!


I actually had a lot of fun finding just the right stamps to fit inside our new Wooden Frame and in the end it's the hand holding the diploma that I like best :)

I started my card by stamping our new Wooden Frame on white card stock and then on a piece of scrap so I could make a reverse mask. I covered the 3 bottom openings first and stamped the Congratulations from our Grad Saying.  Next I covered that opening with scrap and removed the covering from the center left section and stamped our Teacher Tools and then did the same with the last 2 sections stamping both our Grad Tassel and then just the hand from our Male Graduate but you could use our Female Graduate as well.  Once I removed all the masks I colored everything using watercolor pencils and a blender pen.  The most time consuming part of the whole card was finding just the right background :)  I tried several stamped backgrounds that just seemed too busy and a couple of plain ones that were too plain.  I finally decided on my favorite swiss dots embossing folder.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Sue

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Leonard Graduates!!

Welcome!

Here's a quick graduation card for you today!

I started off by stamping our new Grad Hat Hooray using black ink on white card stock.  I stamped our new Hats Off to the Grad on a separate scrap and trimmed it and layered it on red.  I also stamped our favorite graduate - Leonard the Pig on scrap and colored and fussy cut him.  I assembled it all together on a red folded card adding a black strip of card stock across the bottom of the background.

Thanks for stopping by,
Sue

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You Brighten My Day!

Good morning!

Well, what can I say, I love this little frame set!!

I found some more great stamps to fit (sort of)  Nothing like art outside the box or frame in this case!

Wooden Frame Collection, Dogwood Bloom, Three Butterflies and You Brighten My Day

The backgrounds are done with Distress inks and water.  I made a little template of the frame and 

then drew light pencil marks inside each.  I did some masking, stamping inside one frame at a time then masked each image and stamped the frame.

This next card is for a graduation.  The colors are for our local Yosemite High School.

I used Dreams Inspire Future Greeting, Grad Hat Hooray!, Male Graduate

I stamped the sentiment then masked the banner and stamped the graduate. 

The hats are stamped with blue on light blue cardstock.

This card is super easy and makes a nice card for any graduate (there is a female graduate 

as well).

Our weather has turned nice and cool again, I wish it would stay this way!

Our son works for us as an electrician and today they were working on some dock electrical

at Bass Lake, he had to strip down to his skivvies and go in the water then under water to untangle some ropes around part of the dock....I think it was pretty cold!  Thankfully this time of year there are

not a lot of people around!! 

Well, thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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Your Dreams Will Inspire Your Future

Hi Everyone,

DRS Designs has recently released a wonderful new graduation sentiment Dreams Inspire Future.  I feel like it's a lofty greeting, so I wanted to incorporate the concept of height on my card.  

After stamping, heat embossing, die cutting and matting my greeting, I set it aside and worked on the backgournd.  I simply dry embossed the card stock with clouds and added a few die cut ones as well.

I picked the bottom corner for the placement of the sentiment, so I thought I would add a couple of dreamy Hot Air Balloons. I stamped, colored and fussy cut them, adding them with some dimensional foam tape to finish off the card.

I made a second card using the same Dreams Inspire Future Greeting along with the same layout.  

I stamped the greeting right onto the cardstock and embellished it with markers in rainbow colors.

Then I simply stamped the Bee Trail and added rainbow colored butterflies that were embellished with matching gems.  

Wishing you and inspired week full of craftiness!

Karin

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Dreams

Happy Monday Everyone. Trust you had a great weekend and found some time to get inky. I don't know about you, but it is so relaxing and soothing for me to create cards, especially cards for a specific person or reason. I love sharing my cards with family and friends.

Today I have another grad card. It is getting to that time of year!  This one uses the new Grad Hat Hooray image as well as the new Dreams Inspire Greeting which is perfect for grad cards.

I started with the yellow card base. Stamped the Grad Hat Hooray onto the white panel with Versafine Black ink. The new greeting is also stamped with Versafine Black ink. Both panels are layered onto black CS before adding them to the yellow. To comeplete the look I die cut a grad hat with a yellow tassel and the diploma with a yellow seal. A pretty quick and easy card.

Images used:

Dreams Inspire Future Greeting (898F)

Grad Hat Hooray (889G)

Thanks for stopping by today.

shelia

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Grad Dreams

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

 Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! And I hope you had a very Happy Easter! Are you enjoying all the new stamps? For my card today, I kept CAS..and this could be used for a male or female grad. You could also change up the colors behind the stars to match the school colors. 

I had a bg...actually a lg white envelope that I kept under my card stock when I was sponging, spraying & what not, & it looked so pretty & glittery, I saved it. I die cut the Stars out of the front & added the bg behind it. I put the white outline back in place & used a silver Wink of Stella on some. It was really surprising to me how much sparkle it added in comparison to the clear I used on the capital letters of the greeting & a couple of the other white star frames. I added some diplomas & mortarboards in the left corner.

 Here's the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend! 

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs:  Dreams Inspire Future, Graduation Bg   (inside: Go Confidently,Brush Mortarboard )

paper: Staples 110# white

ink: Versaclair nocturne, Memento gray flannel (Memento tuxedo black also used inside)

accessories: RubberneckerRectangle Stitch,Stars dies,  Wink of Stella

Dreams Inspire Future 898F	Graduation Bg 984H	Go Confidently 965H	Brush Mortarboard 287G	Memento Inks
Versafine Clair ink	Staples 110# White Card Stock	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Stars die 5127D	Wink of Stella

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Flying Hats

Graduation is just around the corner and this year I need a bunch of cards.  DRS Designs has a bunch of great new graduation images and lots of great existing images as well.  I combined and old image, Congratulations Graduation, and a new sentiment, Hats off Graduation Greeting for this card.

I used THIS card by a fellow stamper, Catherine, as my inspiration.  To make the background, I inked up some acetate, misted it with water, and then placed it on the base paper.  After it dried, I stamped the sentiment. 

Hope your week is going well!  Hugz

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Hats Off

Hi Everyone,

The hats are flying everywhere on my card today.  I thought I would keep the color choice a basic black and white, so that it could be gender neutral and not tied to any school colors. I think it's a must when considering building up a card stash for emergencies :)  

I created the background using the new Grad Hat Hooray background, and I added an embossed strip down the side.  I stamped and die cut the new Hats off Graduation Greeting and attached it using dimensional foam tape. 

I wanted to have some hats flying around, so I heat embossed two of the Brush Mortarboards and fussy cut them, before attaching them using the same dimensional tape.

Now that Easter is behind us, the graduation season is coming up fast.  Check out all of the  great graduation stamps available right here....Have a good one and happy stamping!

Karin

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