Another Graduation Card

Wow, can you believe it! I am posting again so soon. Miracles never cease. Anyway, here is another graduation card I just finished. It is for the brother of the young woman whose card I made in the previous post. I wanted to make it kind of artsy/eclectic since he graduated with an Art Education major and landed a job as an art teacher at a Voc/Tech. high school. He makes very contemporary paintings so this seemed up his alley. No stamping, can you believe it? I typed the quote in OpenOffice and printed it out. I then die cut it with my Nesties. The cute paper is from Cosmo Cricket's "Get Happy" 8X8 paper pad. I used my Tagalong to die cut the corner. I punched the little grad cap from black cardstock. I also edged everything with black ink. The inside is similar, but the papers are reversed with the dots as the mat to the verse and the red on the large bottom piece. That is about it. Thanks for stopping by.

Janet

Graduation Card

Hi all,

I am sorry to be so AWOL. It has been a crazy month. I finally finished this graduation card for our friend's daughter who just graduated from Wake Forest University with Honors. I wanted to make it personal so I actually diecut the picture of her college right from the announcement. I used my long rectangle Nestabilities for the picture and the greeting. The only stamping was the greeting which is a two part stamp that features the "outy" phrase for the outside of the card and the "inny" verse that goes inside the card. It is from My Sentiments Exactly. The inside verse says "Wishing you much success as you pursue your dreams and goals." I stamped it in VersaMark and embossed with fine silver embossing powder. I added the big flower and a ribbon over the corner. Now I need to get it in the mail. Thanks for stopping by.

Janet

Another blog candy alert!

There are a lot of blog candy contests going on right now. Here is another one for Elzybell stamps. They are celebrating the one year blog anniversary. Hurry and check it out now. Here is the link: http://stephaniejomayne.blogspot.com/2009/06/elzy-flashbacks-and-blog-candy.html Good luck to all who enter to win!

Blog candy alert!!!

A quick post today to let you know that Angel is giving away an Elzybells stamp set. Head over there now! http://angelsworld94.blogspot.com/2009/06/coffee-beaches-and-elzybells.html
Good luck to everyone who enters!

MOJO90/Verve/QuicKutz challenges

Hi all. I have been MIA for a LONG time. So sorry about that. My job has kept me too busy to update my blog, but summer is almost here and I will have the summer off. YIPPEE! Enough about me and on to my post.

I combined several challenges into one card. Time is of the essence and I better make use of it. I used the MOJO90 sketch (http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/2009/06/mojo-monday-week-90.html) for my layout. I also incorporated some Verve stamps, Hero Arts stamp and QuicKutz dies into it as well. My main image of the children marching is from Stampin' Up(retired). The navy stars on the red stripe and the main top stars are all from Verve stamps. The bottom layer has a Hero Arts star from the "Tiny Festive Backgrounds" LK008 set stamped tone on tone with red and navy. The star curvy cut, red gingham curvy cut and the tiny polka dot curvy cut on the bottom mat are all die cut from the QuicKutz "borders" die. I used my Nesties for the main squares in my Wizard. I added a star bling to the stamped top layered star. I wish you could see the colors better - scanning just doesn't do it justice. I gotta figure out how to download pictures to my pc so I can take "real" photos of my cards. Oh well, that will have to wait for summer. :D

This card is going to my Dad. His birthday is June 14, Flag Day. I figured what better design for his card than a nice patriotic theme. The vintage scene is very appropriate for my Dad. Happy 78th birthday, Dad.