Showing posts with label graduation card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graduation card. Show all posts

Monday, August 5, 2013

Graduation card!

I made this card for our cousins' graduation! It was a fun and simple one to make once I had the idea...


The main part of the card is the window - I just love the transparency paper I bought from the Studio Calico shop! You can buy transparency paper at an office supply store, but I've found it to be super expensive and you have to buy a lot of it, whereas SC sells it in just this pack of 10 sheets!


To start the card though, I added strips of, believe it or not, 3M Scotch brand washi tape that I picked up at Office Max the other day! They had some really cools color combinations, and I've determined I need more washi tape that has multiple colors in it, rather than just one color! This washi still feels and tears like normal washi tape, but the colors are very vibrant - I am loving that Scotch makes these now!


Anyway, after laying down strips of washi across the whole card, I cut out the frame from my Silhouette, then cut the inner rectangle out of the front of the card. I cut a rectangle slightly larger from the transparency and adhered to the back of the frame before adhering the full frame down. Added some thickers and stamped a personal congrats to our cousin Ray across the bottom and done! The only thing I'm thinking of adding is possibly backing the window with the cash we are going to give him :)

Monday, June 20, 2011

Graduation/scrolls card

I made this graduation card for my niece:


Idea lifted/altered from: Studio Calico weekly challenge by Jen Jockisch (couldn't find the link on the SC blog, but did find it posted here on the Two Peas in a Bucket website).

It was a little painful to cut up so many sheets of high quality cardstock to make the little scrolls, but it was definitely worth it! Here's a nice little close up of the scrolls:


HOW-TO:
  • Cut the green ledger looking cardstock from Cosmo Cricket at 6.5x4.5" (fyi, most of my cards lately have been mounted on Bazzill Kraft cardstock trimmed to around 10x7" and folded in half to make a 5x7" card since I have an extra set of A7 envelopes which are 5.25x7.25")
  • The papers for the scrolls were all from the Elementary collection by Studio Calico and I cut them into varying size strips from 1.75" to 3"
  • I wrapped the strips around a rounded pencil first, then tightened the wrap after removing the pencil and adhered with zots as well as a piece of regular scotch tape! Wow, I never use scotch tape anymore...
  • Zotted(?) them to the paper
  • I actually remembered to chalk the edges of the background sheet of paper (using Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink - usually I don't remember this step till the very end of a project)
  • Originally planned to write my niece's name down the side in little banners but realized it might become too busy and banners didn't really fit the scrolls theme, so added a Tim Holtz stamp and embossed in black
  • Of course, after adding that stamp with the words on there, the letter stickers I had planned to use, were a different font/look than the stamp, and would've made dueling titles - yes, fighting titles, so I decided to print some smaller words on paper and cut a strip to put at the top, so it wouldn't compete with the stamped title
  • I might be overusing twine lately, but it's so easy and is always out from my last project...
  • Added little black photo corners since they fit a graduation theme, for my finishing touch

graduation card