Graduations are like buses...

you seem to wait forever then three come at once . Yes, I know it is graduation season however, I didn't know "I" needed to make any graduation cards until last week. How do I miss these things. So anyone this one for my mother to send my cousin from "the family".


My thinking behind the card is that college graduations tend toward black mortar boards and tassels and then I used the school's colors which are supposed to be deep purple and gold... well this is my take on that.


I just want to know one thing... when will I ever learn to leave well enough alone. I was going for the nice crisp look but then I somehow decided that the embossing needed to be "highlighted" I wish I had stopped before I did it but I didn't and definitely didn't have time for a re-do - so lesson hopefully learnt this time. I'm not upset at what the card looks like just that I didn't stop to get the look I wanted to achieve. On a positive note, I have two more graduation cards to practice "stopping" at the right time.


Ingredients

• Card size - 5.5in x 8.5in
• Cardstock - Bazzill, Neenah,
• Stamps - Kitchen Sink Stamps
• Ink - Memento, Brilliance
• Cuttlebug and Scor-Pal embossing

Hoppy Birthday Grandson ....

This is what happens when my Clear Dollar Stamps and Copics collide, with a Kitchen Sink Stamp thrown in!

I decided I wanted to use my Scor-pal and create a gatefold and use the image to bridge the folds. After I colored in the images and did the background, I mounted it on bazzill cardstock and stamped the "GrandSon" from Kitchen Sink Stamps on the image.

I then colored in the "Hoppy Birthday" greeting and background and die cut them with oval nestabilities.

Ingredients
Cardstock - Georgia Pacific, Bazzill.
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps, Kitchen Sink Stamps
Ink - Memento
Markers - Copics
Accessories - Scor-pal, Nestabilities

Another fine mess!

This was my husband's favourite (and yes I have to spell that in English not American because that is the way he speaks) card. He is a mad (another English-ism) Laurel & Hardy fan and when I saw this stamp on VivaLasVegastamps website I knew I just had to get it!

The image is stamped with Palette noir and colored in with Copics (I know they have such vibrant colors!) they had just the right subtle quick colors that I needed for this. Gotta love those grays again! And the skin tones were just what I needed.

I cut out the image with my square nestabilities and embossed the edge. I then cut a mat with the nestabilities in a very "manly" black.

The gray card is Bazzill which I scored into a grid using my Scor-pal. Now what did I ever do without that - it really does make scoring so much easier than it was when I used to try to use my trimmer.

The second stamped image of the clapboard is another from VLVS and the greeting is from my collection of See D's - they almost look like they were made for one another.

So, I guess the question now is - do you think my DH was right in his preference?

Ingredients:

Cardstock - Bazzill, Georgia Pacific

Stamps - VivaLasVegastamps, See D's

Ink - Brilliance

Markers - Copic

Accessories - Nestabilities, brads by Making Memories, Scor-Pal.