Graduation 2022

I don't have a graduation card to do every year, but this year the son of a neighbor of ours is graduating from High School. His school's colors are purple and white.

 I stamped this great Confetti Borders stamp from The Ton at the top and bottom of my panel that was die cut with the Greetery Crimped Frame die. I chose the congratulations die from the Avery Elle Sentimental Dies collection, and added the date made from the Greetery Bold Numbers dies. I love these numbers, and they go well with the Crimped Frame.

For dimension, I cut the numbers 4 times and stacked them together. I matted the panel with the same cardstock as the die cuts.

Products used:

The Ton Confetti Borders stamp

Avery Elle D-16-01 Sentimental dies

The Greetery GD-M-016 Crimped Frame die set

The Greetery GD-M-082 Bold Numbers die set

Catherine Pooler Grape Crush ink

So Silk Passion Purple cardstock

Neenah Solar White 80# & 110# cardstock

Super Saturday at Magenta - Distress Ink Blending and Lifting

 I got this adorable new stamp from Magenta of a crow sitting on a wire, and he looks like he is blowing bubbles. I decided for his background to try and blend some Distress Inks and do some ink lifting. You can see my post on the Magenta blog here.

I love how it turned out! I die-cut a panel of white 80# cardstock with Spellbinders Hemstitch Rectangles. Then I blended Distress Inks in Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers and Wilted Violet onto my panel

You can see my blending is not perfect. It's not necessary for it to be perfect to work well for this technique, but it's best to lay down a lot of color.

I placed the stencil "Fantasy" onto the blended panel and pressed a baby wipe onto it. This is a new to me technique for ink lifting and there is a lot less control with it. You just have to like what you get, and I did. The result looked like a suggestion of leaves and rain to me.

I stamped the bird stamp in black and added the sentiment. I then matted the panel onto a slightly larger piece of So Silk Glamour Green and adhered it to a base card.

Here is most of what I used to make this card, details below.

Magenta Products used:

0837.K Bird Silhouette on Wire

07.969.F have a Beautiful day!

TM169 Fantasy Stencil

Other Products used:

Distress Ink: Twisted Citron,

Peacock Feathers, Wilted Violet

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Spellbinders S5-308 Hemstitch Rectangles

80# & 110# Neenah Solar White Cardstock

So Silk Glamour Green Cardstock