Outstanding Achievements

This post is dedicated to those who have accomplished some outstanding achievements! First up, we have a congratulations card for a friend. She just received her nursing degree and Onil and I wanted to congratulate her on a job well done. I printed the picture from the internet, sanded the edges and mounted it on silver cardstock. Then I used rub-on stitches on the side and added the Dymo label at the bottom.



The next card is for my nephew, Asher, who is graduating from high school this June. I did a Google image search for "1933 graduation" because I wanted an old-fashioned graduation picture. When I found this guy I thought he would be perfect -- he's so pleased with himself! I printed the picture on glossy cardstock and cut around the edges with deckle scissors. I punched four squares out of maroon mulberry paper (maroon and white are his school colors) and turned them on their side. I took strips of grey paper and ran them down the diamonds and along the bottom, and added a star eyelet where they intersect. I mounted the picture on top of it all and used silver stickers to spell "oh yeah" and the Dymo labeler for "You're awesome".

Happy Mother's Day!

This year, just like every year, Mother's Day took me by surprise. I don't know why. You'd think I'd remember that day, of all days. But it's not a big deal to me and sometimes it's all I can do to remember to send a card out. Such was the case this year, so I had to make cards for the two mothers in my life on the fly. I brought a lot of my stuff up here to work and put it all together this morning. The cards are the same except for the color cardstock: one light and one a shade darker. I printed out a picture of cherry blossoms (which seems to be my new obsession since I got that cherry blossom punch), rounded the corners and mounted it on grey cardstock. I then tied a pink ribbon around it and attached it to a square card. I made the flowers with cherry blossoms punched out of white cardstock, and small suns out of pink cardstock and a 1/8" circle punch out of darker pink cardstock for the centers.





Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there! :o)

Just a couple of quick cards...

I had a busy weekend so I wasn't able to do much in the way of card-making. Here are two that I just made.

The first is with a frog from Uptown Rubber Stamps. They came out with a new line of really cute animal images (but nothing online) and I thought this froggie was really cute. He's holding a flower on the stamp but I punched a small flower and put that over top of the stamped flower. The circle of dots is a stamp from Hero Arts and the "thank you" at the bottom is from Classic Appeals (or whatever it's called). I had to use a green background to scan the card, otherwise I wouldn't know where the edges are. So the green around the edge is not part of the card.



The next card is a birthday card I made. I wanted to use our new Dymo labelmaker so I came up with this card. I guess I didn't press hard enough for the last two letters in "HAPPY", so it just looks like "HAP" birthday. Oh well, live and learn. It's a single-sided card (like a post card) and the envelope is one of those long tie envelopes I've been using lately.

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