Sunday, July 13, 2014

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

8 comments:

  1. Wow Karen what a fab image so right for your card it's really gorgeous x

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  2. stunning card
    thanks for playing with us at fussy and fancy
    hugs
    céline

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  3. I'm really liking your take on graduation. The soft colors on the stamped image are excellent as is the easel design

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  4. I really like the ribbon and your sentiment. Thanks for sharing at Penny's this week.
    Cheers Nicole

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  5. Wonderful easel card! Great graduation card! Thank you for joining in my Anything Goes challenge at the Red Rubber Inspirationals blog this week! Lynda - DT Champion Red Rubber Designs

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  6. Great Grad card. I like the easel fold on this. Thanks for sharing with us at DRS Designs.

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  7. What a neat card! Thanks for playing along with us at Red Rubber Inspirationals!

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  8. Thank you so much for sharing your delightful crafting for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge for July - hope to see you again soon. x

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