Good morning All -
I hope you had a wonderful weekend. It ended up being pretty good weather for our neighborhood garage sale. We did well and I found some bargains myself...like a desk for Logan for $5.00. WOW!
I can't believe it is May already. This school year will be coming to an end very quickly. I am going to have to come up with some end of the year teacher gifts pretty soon. I am sure some of you are also thinking about this and about graduation gifts too. YIKES!
The NEW Summer Mini Catalog has some really cute school and graduations stamp sets in them. They are called First Day & Go, Graduate. They both come in wood or clear mount.
Here are some cards I created using them.
This "A+ grad card" will be one of the featured cards at the May 15th Stamp Camp.
Sign up is going on now. shoot me an email if you'd like to attend.
When stamping the hat, I turned the stamp counter clockwise a 1/4 of the way around. This makes it appear like the hat is being tossed into the air.I embossed the Button on the top of the hat with silver embossing powder to give it texture, I also cut out and pop-dotted a few of the hat to give dept to the image.
"Congrats Grad Card"
STAMPS:go graduate, dotted lines
INKS:basic black, real red, brilliant blue
CARDSTOCK:night of navy, whisper white, crushed curry, cherry cobbler
TOOLS: markers, circle punch, tab punch, star punch, spiral punch, corner
rounder
OTHER: staples
TIPS: 1. cut a 4 1/4" x 11 piece of the night of navy cardstock. fold it in half. 2. cut a 5 1/4" x 3" piece of the crushed curry cardstock. use the border punch to make the spiral edge. staple this piece on 3 sides of the front of the card to create a pocket. 3. stamp the text and the feet images on white card stock and adhere on top of the pocket. 4. stamp the owl, color him in and punch him out of the white cardstock. punch a slightly larger red circle and adhere the two circles together and then to the front of the card. 5. cit a 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" piece of white cardstock to make the insert with. use red ink to stamp the dotted lines and stamp congratulations at the top of the card.Round the corners. Use the tab punch and the star punch to create the tab at the top of the insert and staple it on.
PS. this pocket would be a great place to put a gift card or right the grad a letter.
I hope you have a Blooming great day!
