Graduation Card

The hardest cards for me to make are Graduation and Mono Chromatic, meaning a card primarily with one color. The reason Graduation cards are difficult for me is because I don't have very many Cricut Cuts or Stamps to choose from. The cap on this card was cut from Wild Card Cricut Cartridge. It is actually a card and there are no layers for it. So the way I cut it is on my Gyspy, and I move it to the edge so only the front of the cap is on the mat. Then I cut it out and trim off the extra paper. So finally I figured out how to make a Graduation Cap with the Cricut Cuts I have.

Inside

Supplies & Instructions

Wild Card Cricut Cartridge

Cap - Button #42 - 5.15" (only use 1 side of the cap card)

Scroll - Button #42 icon - 5.15"

Tassel - Button #42 liner - 5.15"

Plain Paper - Core'dination

Pattern Paper - DCWV The Grade School Stack

Stamp - My Pink Stamper - Fancy Phrases

Color Scroll with Slate color Copic Marker

Brad

A bit about me....

I have been working on alot of projects. I sell my cards, notebooks, and paper crafts that I make. Tomorrow is our Church's Father's Day Fest. Its a hug outdoor event with a service, car show, monster trucks, cook-off, live bands, and I am running a craft fair at it. I am so excited to sell projects and cards I have made. What I sell will pay for my day at CHA Chicago in July. So I am praying for a profitable day. I am looking forward to tomorrow so much! Well enough about me, I need to go make some more stuff :)

Graduation Cards

Congratulations

I had an order for graduation cards and I didn't have a good Cricut Cartridge or stamp for graduations. I also didn't know what their school colors were, just their gender, so this is what I came up with.

Supplies

Wild Card Cricut Cartridge

Button #28

Card - blackout - 5"

Envelope - 5"

Congratulations - 5"

Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen

Graduation Cap - Dimensions Clear on Clear - Special Occasions Stamps

Colored the cap with Copic Markers

Blue Paper from DCWV Winter Matstack



Graduation Card - MPS Fancy Phrases

Congratulations

One of my favorite new stamps sets that My Pink Stamper just released is Fancy Phrases. You can use it for so many different cards. To see all of My Pink Stamper's Stamp Sets, click HERE.

Recipe:

Wild Card Cricut Cartridge

Button #35

Card, Envelope, Fish, Frame - cut at 4.5"

This is such a versatile guy card. I also use it for Father's Day by just changing the stamps.

Graduation Journal

I am working on some Graduation Gifts. There are personalized journals, that they can right down their dreams, goals for their future & also what God does in their lives' along the way. This is the 2nd one I made & I love how it turned out.

I bought $3 journals from Big Lots. This is what I started with.

I pried open the binding with my hands & took the covers off.

This is what my finished covers looked like. I painted the spine part of the cover where the holes are.  I sanded it some first so the paint would stick better. Then I cut the cover card stock about 1" larger than the cover on 3 sides. Then I notched out the corners by cutting up to the corner from each edge. Then I cut little slivers off those cuts. That helps it fold & lay nicely. I used a foam brush & put Mod Podge on the cover then placed my card stock on it. Then I turned the cover over & put Mod Podge where the cover would fold over to the inside & pressed it all down smooth. Then I cut the inside piece about 1/8" short on 3 sides & put Mod Podge on the cover & then adhered the inside piece down. After that I cut out & adhered the bird, name, and believe. I also stickled the word believe so it would stand out better. Make sure it is completely dry before brushing Mod Podge smoothly over all the cover. It dries clear but you will still see any brush strokes so I try to brush it all in the same direction & make it look nice. Repeat all the steps for the back cover but don't embellish. On this journal I ran out of paper, so the inside of the back cover was too small so I made a folder out of another scrap piece I had. Another mess up I fixed was where the flower is on the inside of the back cover. Some of the paper riped when I was applying Mod Podge so I cut out the flower from the patterned paper & covered it with it. So make your mistakes into works of art.

After all of it dries put the covers back in the binding & gently pinch the binding back together.

Here is the graduation card I designed to go along with the journal.