Paige's Graduation

I made this card for a granddaughters high school graduation.  The invitation is a very sophisticated black, red and silver so I tried to use it as my inspiration.  I went to my card stock supply and pulled out some black, red and cream card stock.  I didn't have a silver that I liked so I chose a sparkly cream instead, the red is also sparkly.
I used Papertrey Ink sets Congrats All Ways and For the Grad.  Using the Papertrey dies Mat Stack 1 and Layerz Mat Stack 1 I cut out a black layer and a cream layer and embossed the sentiment and the graduation hat in black.   I used some dimensionals to attach it to the card base over some ribbon from Gina K.
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Nate's Graduation

I finally got around to making our grandson's graduation card.  He's out of high school and headed to college in the fall.
He's headed to classes to become a Master Mechanic (did you know there was a college degree in that?)  So of course his card has to have cars on it.  The little truck is one of my favorite stamps so that was one of the first ones I went looking for, then I chose to use this antique car also.  I colored the truck with Copics but left the antique car just stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa.  The card base has a layer of dotted textured card stock with plaid from DVWV Natural over that.  After I mounted the cars I stamped a strip of kraft with the sentiment and was done.
I know he'll like the check enclosed more than the card, but I liked how it turned out.  What do you think?
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Paige's Graduation

When I placed my order for some of the new PaperTrey stamps I didn't know just how much I would use the graduation set. I knew I wanted it to make my nephew's card but I also needed for a granddaughter's card. The same day that the stamps arrived we received the graduation announcement for our oldest granddaughter. Works out well.

One of the great things about PaperTrey is that when you click on any of the stamps you get access to the gallery for that set and also there is a tip sheet for each of them. Really helpful information.

Since Paige's school colors are red and silver I used that color combo. I first went to Google Images and downloaded the mascot,and sized it to fit into the center of the focal image stamp. I just printed it in red cut it out with a circle punch and ran my silver leafing pen around the edge. I used a scalloped circle Nestabilities to cut out a mat for the mascot image and mounted it to the stamped image. PaperTrey has come out with a line of dies to coordinate with many of their images. I used the Mat Stack 1 die to cut out the shape then I stamped on top of it. Since the stamps are clear it's easy to line them up.

I then stamped out the class of image and added the year with the individual numbers included in the set.

The DP is from the White Washed Core-dinations line that I ran through the CuttleBug with a Quickutz embossing folder that I then sanded. It sounds like a lot of work but it really wasn't. The most time consuming part was lining up the year numbers (shaky hands sometimes makes life a little difficult).

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.