Graduation Season and Another Card

Hello there,

I hope you all had a great weekend, I know I did. :)   I even got a chance to spend a little time in my craft room creating some cards.  As graduation season is in full swing for me, I've got lots of graduation cards to make.  I thought I'd share my latest one with you.  

Do you ever just have one of those days when card making or anything crafty for that matter just doesn't seem to go quite as you had envisioned it?  That's the kind of day I had yesterday.  The first card I made found it's way to garbage as I had smeared glue all over it. :P  For the next try, I wanted to create a card that had some printed text.  However, my printer just would not cooperate!  And lastly was this card.  Whew!  I'm happy with the final result, but I just could not emboss the "congrats" sentiment.  I tried and tried.  I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but I gave up and settled on this.  

I think it works. :) Sometimes that's just how it goes in the craft room and in life.  But I've found that those times are the most valuable because those are the learning moments.  

So I encourage you to not give up.  Keep on creating, and learning. 

I'll be back on Wednesday to share some very exciting news with you all!
 Until then, have a blessed week.

Graduation 2016 Shaker Card

Hello There,

I've got a little time on my hands today, so I thought I would stop in real quick to share my latest card with you all. 

I recently had a special request for a graduation card.  The only issue was I've never made a graduation card, and I don't usually like the graduation cards that I see.  The just always seem to be so plain, without girly colors and embellishments that I like to use when making a card.  Well, I tried my best, I'm not sure if this is much better, but it is definitely embellished.  I still don't think I would consider this my favorite type of card to make, but it was fun and I would do it again in a heartbeat!

I'd been wanting to make a shaker card for awhile now,  so I decided to go for it with this card. 

Can I just tell you how hard it is to take a decent picture of cards like this, the photo overlays give off a lot of glare, you can actually see my reflection!  

I used a My Minds Eye Fancy That photo overlay that I stitched to my cardstock base.  I left a small opening to put all of the sequins and confetti through.  Then finished stitching it up.  I gold embossed  "2016" and "grad " then fussy cut them out and adhered them to the card using foam dimensional squares.  

I used a My Minds Eye Niche die for the banner, that I watercolor painted using Tim Holtz Mustard seed and squeezed lemonade distress inks. I then added letter stickers for the word "congrats", these are also from My Minds Eye. 

I really had fun making this card, it's always great to try new techniques.  The possibilities are endless.

Blessings,

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