Graduation Card and a tutorial

I made this graduation card today for my son who is graduating from high school on Thursday. I wanted a graduation cap that could also hold money or a gift card, his school colors are red and black. On the back of the insert I made a little pocket to hold money or a gift card.
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Here is the card with the insert sticking out. I found the charm at Michael's, it is from Darcie's. The tassel is home made using embroidery floss, and then attached with a brad.

I started with a eight inch square, and scored at four inches on two sides. Then I scored a diagonally. On the diagonal make it a mountain fold and on the four inch score lines make them a valley fold.



Place tape as in photo. Then flip over and place tape as in the next photo.

Before gluing down you need to find the center of one of the four inch sides, this is where you will place your brad. Attach tassel to the brad. Once it is all glued down you will have a little pocket to put your insert. The insert is 3 1/2 inches square. If you have any questions please ask.


I will be busy this week with my sons graduation so I am not sure if I will get any stamping done and I may not be able to post. Thank you for stopping by.

Blog Award

I received this wonderful award from Selma. Selma does such fabulous cards and has amazing talent.

The rules for this award are...
*comment on this blog
*cut and paste the award logo and use it on your own blog
*nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude
*link to your nominees within your blog post
*comment on their blogs to let them know they received the award
*link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation.

I would like to nominate these wonderful ladies.
Cat
Lee
Deb
Joanne
Patti J
Donna

Season's change

I made this for Lee's challenge on StampTV to use stamps from two different seasons. I choose Take Flight and Winter Foliage both from Gina K Designs. The patterned paper is wisteria from Basic Grey. The card stock is river rock and elegant eggplant. So for the background behind the butterfly I sponged first with bashful blue then ballet blue and then finished with elegant eggplant. The pine bough is stamped in elegant eggplant and then also stamped off once and then on the background to give it depth. If you get a chance head over to StampTV and do some of the challenges for a chance to win a stamp set. I have been playing along often and I won this week. I now need to decide which set I want That is not an easy thing to do as there are so many wonderful sets. Thank you for stopping by.


copics: BV11, BV17

Celebrate Dresses

I made this card for Gina's paper piecing challenge on StampTV. I really had a beautiful vision in my head for this card and unfortunately it didn't come out anywhere near what I planned. Everything that could go wrong with this card did!! The colors didn't photograph right, they are so saffron pretty in pink and certainly celery. Oh well, here it is mistakes and all. Thank you for stopping by.

More Challenge cards

During last Thursdays release party for GKD there were a couple of challenge posted. This ATC is for one from Cat/Catdidit, to make an ATC. I decided to also make it a gift card holder.
Details below.













The second challenge was from Melissa (Gina's Guest designer this month). The challenge was to make a card for a child. I made this, it is a five inch square card that will fit in a CD envelope. Details posted below.

Thank you for stopping by.


Supplies:

ATC Card
Stamps, My Cuppa' Joe (GKD)
Paper, river rock, chocolate chip, basic grey mellow
Ink,memento rich cocoa, copics: C1, E31, E35

Hello Friend Card
Stamps, Whatever Floats Your Boat (GKD)
Paper, green galore, garden green, basic grey lime rickey
Ink, memento tuxedo black, twinklettes, copics: C1, C3, C5, G28, YG06, W3
accessories, word window punch pearls

Dream Bookmark

Here is a bookmark I made for Donna's 3D challenge on StampTV. I used barely banana and certainly celery for the base, the DP is basic Grey's Porcelain. The Cala Lily is from Friendships Garden the sentiment is from Botanical Dreams both illustrated by Asela Hopkins from Gina K Designs. I colored with copics, cut out the cala lily and then glued it down. This was a super fast bookmark to make with the exception of the ribbon, I spent most of my time tying that dang bow! Thank you for stopping by.





copics: C0, C3, E09, E35, Y21, YG03, YG95

Tea-licious!

I made this card for two challenges. First is this weeks sketch challenge for Card Positioning System (CPS117). The second one is for the Cuttlebug Spot, to use brown and blue or brown and orange. I used MFT's Tea for Two and colored with copics. The colors are bashful blue and sahara sand, and the patterned paper is SU's retired Delicate Dots. The sahara sand mat is embossed with swiss dots. I wanted to use the back of it because it reminded me of swiss cheese.
As I am typing this I can see the I needed to cut the ribbon ends a little shorter, and after doing so it looks much better. I will try to post a new photo tomorrow, it is late tonight and I am having trouble even typing as I have a paper creating injury. I tried to snip off the end of one of my fingers! So I now have a band-aid on and boy is it ever hard to type when you can't feel the keys. Thank you for stopping by.

copics: B21, C0, C1, C3, E31, E35, E51, R22, R24

Thank you Iris

I made this card for this weeks sketch challenge over on 2 sketches 4 you. For my card I used River Rock for the card base with Elegant Eggplant. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey's Wisteria pack. the Iris stamp is from Elegant Flowers from Gina K Designs, the sentiment is from Warmest Regards from Stampin' Up. I colored the irises with copic markers, sorry I lost the colors I used. The circles were cut with nestabilities and the butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch with some tiny pearls. Thank you for stopping by.

Sea Breeze

As most of you know by now I love challenges, they really get my creative juices flowing. This is one for a scrapbook sketch on StampTV. I used it for a card sketch. I love how this card came out. I used kraft with a mat of blue bayou for the card base. I started out by stamping several of the images from Guiding Light from Gina K Designs. I then colored them with copics markers, I then cut out around the sky part of the images and then glued them down on some Basic Grey paper that has a sky pattern. The ship wheel I stamped right on the sky paper and colored with copics. Yes I cut out all of those seagulls, and boy was it tedious. The net on the corners is tulle I bought at the fabric store.

I worked on this card last night and then this morning I checked out the color challenge on StampTV and Theresa posted to use any blues, blue greens or blue violets with any neutrals. I didn't know that she was even doing a challenge this week, how funny is that? Often Theresa and I will be working on cards that are very similar at the same time without knowing it until we talk or one of us posts. This also happens with my mom, Geri. I just had to share I find it funny how much it happens.
Thanks for stopping by.



copics:B24, C0, C1, C3, C5, E25, E31, E35, R22, R24, YG95, YR02

Out on the Range

Okay I have decided that I am challenge when it comes to coming up titles for my post. I spend so much time trying to come up with something good, it drives me crazy. I guess the title doesn't matter so much. Sorry for my vent, on to my card.

I had the idea of making this embellishment (I don't know what they are called, but I have seen them on vest and saddles) since I first saw Theresa's Out West set. The metal is something I found in the beading dept. at Michael's. I punched holes with my Crop-A-Dile and then just feed through some black cording. I also made this card for Fridays pot luck challenge on StampTV, to use texture and patterned paper on your card. Thank you for stopping by.

copics:E25, E31, E33, E35, E57

TIP: To attach the metal to the card I used two pop dots with one on top of the other

OutWest

Sorry for my lack of posting the last couple of days, sometimes life gets in the way of my hobby.
About my card, I made it for three different challenges on StampTV. The first one is Gina's technique challenge to use wax paper technique on you card. On the blue layer I ironed on my wax paper and then brayered with ballet blue, it wasn't the color I was going for so I tried brayering brilliant blue on top of that and was happy with the results. The next challenge is a sketch challenge from Jessica. The last challenge is the Friday Pot Luck challenge to use patterned paper and some texture. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey's marrakech collection. For texture I made some barbed wire, when I saw it on Cat's card I knew I had to give it a try. The stamp set is from Gina K Designs and illustrated by Theresa Momber.

copics:E25, E31, E33, E35, E37

Another Purple card

I made this card for two challenges, the sketch (sc229) from SCS and the color challenge from StampTV (kraft, eggplant, baha breeze). I started by coloring the butterfly from Take Flight from Gina K Designs with copic markers and cut it out. Next I started by airbrushing a blue background, I didn't like it so it is now sitting in my scrap pile. After that I settled on baja breeze (not a fan) matted with elegant eggplant and kraft. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey's Wisteria collection. This was the first time I braved using three patterned papers on one card. Thank you for stopping by.

copics: BV 08, BV11, BG01