Graduation Card

You are not going to believe this but this is a card that I made for the sake of making a graduation card. No challenges or contests! My cousin's son is graduating next week in Tennessee so I needed to get him a card made and in the mail NOW. LOL I don't know how I got started making my graduation cards this way, but I now use the invitation/announcement in my card. I begin by cutting apart all the elements from the announcement that would work as a card element. Next, I choose my colors which, of course, follow the school colors represented in the announcement. I then die cut everything and mat it all with matching metallic cardstock. It seems like every announcement has silver or other metallic type on it. This school has green and silver for the main colors. I matted everything with either silver or green metallic papers. The graduation motto and quote both came from the announcement, too. They both worked great for the greetings. No stamps were used. I generated my personal comments on the computer and printed it out. Sure hope he likes it. Oh, almost forgot - I did use my Stampin' Up texture plate by Sizzix to make the background for the front of the card. I just did tone on tone with white. Thanks for stopping by.

Janet

Gingersnap Creations and Our Creative Corner Challenges entry

It's me again. This time I am sharing a card I made for my nephew's 18th birthday. I decided to use the Gingersnap Creations "read" and "pencils" challenges and the Our Creative Corner masculine birthday challenge. Links to these challenges can be found at the end of this entry.

I started with a green card and attached two pieces of designer paper(Prima - Pulse Collection) at odd angles across the card as shown. I then cut off the edges that were hanging off the card. I then stamped the notebook paper(Clear Dollar Stamps) with black ink on white cardstock and cut out. I then used a regular pencil to write various notes on the paper and erased some to look authentic. I attached the note page onto the card with pop up adhesive dots. Next, I wrote "HBD"(happy birthday) in graffiti slang. I cut it in an irregular shape and matted onto more of the DP and attached flat to the card. I then cut two embellishments from more DP from the Prima collection with dies from Spellbinders(used my Wizard to die cut them). I attached them with dimensional adhesive as shown. The last thing I did was distress all the edges with black ink.

Here are the links to the 3 challenges: http://gingersnapcreations.blogspot.com/2010/05/gc53-chestnut-theme-read.html

http://gingersnapcreations.blogspot.com/2010/05/gc54-spicy-supply-challenge-pencils.html

http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/2010/05/our-creative-corner-masculine-birthday.html

Thanks for stopping by and have a great rest of the week.

Janet

2 Sketches 4 You: Kazan's Sketch 51

Well, I finally got around to making a card for my nephew's birthday which is next week. He is only 14 months younger than his older brother so I had to make a similar card for him as I did for his brother. I made his brother a basketball themed card since it was basketball playoffs time. So I used baseball as the theme for this card since that is the season in full swing now. I used Kazan's sketch 51 from 2 Sketches 4 You blog. Here is the link: http://2sketches4you.blogspot.com/2010/04/kazans-sketch-51-farewell.html . I pretty much followed the sketch to a T with lots of layering. I used scrapbook paper from one of those packs from the Target Dollar Spot. Isn't that the best! You can get some great paper there for just a buck! The stamped image is an oldie from TAC(The Angel Company) that was stamped with Stampin' Up Baroque Burgandy(retired). I shadowed it with my Copic Sketch marker CO (cool gray no. 0). I then stamped the words with brown ink(Colorbox Chalk) and cut them out. All of the blue paper is from a DCWV pad. I cut the popped up baseball from the paper. The little border under the baseball is from the same pack of cheap-o paper. I edged all the paper with Distress Ink in Antique Linen. And that is it. Pretty simple - just a lot of layering. I really liked this sketch. Thanks, Kazan!