Easel Graduation Card

Hi Dreamers!
Hope you are having a great weekend!  We had some workers here putting in some new steps to the patio door.  I am really glad to have that done.

Do you have any grad parties this summer?  I seemed to have made lots of graduation cards this year.  I made this Graduation Card for my husband's cousin.  Well, actually, I made a total of four cards in this design.  Two were easels and the other regular cards.  My neighbor needed two grad cards and my friend needed one too---I sold those three and made one to send to our cousin.

Materials:
Stamps: Graduates from The Stamping Place; Sentiment from DRS Designs
Decorative Paper: K & Company
CS: Various shades of lavender and Purple
Markers
Label Die Cut: A Muse Studio
Sheer Peacock Blue Ribbon: Jo-Ann Fabric Store

Instructions:

• Make an easel card from the dark purple CS
• Add a layer of CS and  one of the DP
• Stamp the image with black ink
• Using the markers, watercolor the people

Here's how I watercolor with Markers:  Scribble the marker on an acrylic block and pick up the color with a slightly wet paint brush.   Fill the stamped area with color and pick up more water and color when the brush is dry.

• Layer with dark purple CS and add to card

• Tie a big bow in sheer ribbon and glue to top of card
• Stamp the sentiment and die cut 
• Add to the bottom 
• Add a few pearls
• Make the envelope pretty too by adding a piece of the DP to the flap

*********A Few Fun Challenges for my Easel Graduation Card:
Amusing Challenge: watercolor
Crafty Hazel Nut's Paper: use Decorative paper
Penny's Paper- Crafty: anything goes
Fussy and Fancy: all about girls
Sister Act: anything goes
Charisma Cardz: anything goes
Red Rubber Designs: anything goes with stamping
DRS Designs: cool colors or cool theme---I used a cool color scheme and a DRS           Designs sentiment

That's about it for now.  I will be back this week with more all occasion cards and another Lost Coast design card!!  Sound fun??  Yes, it does......  LOL  See next time!  Love ya.
Karen