Monday, April 03, 2017

2 Graduation cards

Monday April 3 - 2017
 
I was up late playing in my craft room last night and decided to make some Graduation cards. I made two which I am posting now.
 
 I was digging through some papers and found this over spray paper. ... When I spray papers for backgrounds I put a piece of text paper in a box (along with some paper towels) and I remember the last time I sprayed some card stock I had this awesome piece of over spray paper so I cut it down to 6X6.. I loved the look. It's the tag paper. I used Marianne tag die and cut two tags out of the overspray scrap... Isn't it awesome looking??
 
For the big background I used some Ranger inks and blended then sprayed with water and blotted off to get the water marks. I used a Paper Trey Ink Congratulation and embossed in black.  I then have this cute Tim Holtz crazy bird and stamped it twice. I colored this one with Zig markers. The bottom one is with Prang watercolors. For the hat which is the accessories stamps/dies I just cut out black cardstock.. I took a glitter pen and did the band and tassel and added a drop of Nuvo drops.  Aren't the glasses cute?  I added a brad to the tag hole.  When I adhered this tag to the card base I just used adhesive to the top and bottom leaving the middle free from adhesives. This way you can add a gift card or money to that area. That I why I created a faux gift card which is size of an actual gift card so who ever buys this card will know how to use it. (I sell my cards at our little store in my neighborhood- we only have 250 people who live here.. we are in the country)  I plan to make more this week.. Lets see what today bring in the creative room..
 


Challenges:
Brown sugar #244 - anything goes
Crafty catz #364 - anything goes / twist add metal (brad is metal)
My time to craft #342 - woodland animals / or Easter
Addicted to stamps #145 - stamped image and sentiment
Glitter 'n' sparkle #233 - pastels
Pile it on #129 - interactive card (money/gift card pocket behind tag)
HeARTful stamping - anything goes
Creatalicious #112 - anything goes /opt. flowers
A bit more time to craft #41 - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 276-277 - anything goes
Crafting from the heart #153 - anything goes
Artistic inspirations #175 - anything goes







9 comments:

Veerle said...

That background is indeed looking awesome Billie. I absolutely love both of them. And those funny angry birds, I never get tired of them. Great job, well done. Thank you so much for entering our challenge and good luck. Greetings, Veerle DT-ATSC

The Crafty Critter said...

Wonderful card! I love the space for the gift! Too cute! Thank you for joining us at Brown Sugar Challenges.
-Miranda DT
TheCraftyCritter.com

crafty said...

lovely graduation cards and a gift too! Thank you for joining us at Crafting From the Heart.
Mary

Monika Reeck said...

2 coool manly card with Tag
the BG is awesome Billie
oh nooo you have much more post I did not visit ok now only small comment jump again to your other post
I love your idea with gift card
Clever tag card Billie
hugs
Monika

Alma said...

I love your birds, you have coloured them perfect. Thanks for joining us at Addicted to stamps challenge,Alma

Keti's Projects said...

Love your bird graduation cards. Soo cleaver to put a gift card behind your tag. Thanks for playing with us at Pile it On. Keti (DT)

Helen said...

Fabulous cards - love your sprayed backgrounds!
Thanks for playing at Pile It On!
Helen x

Melanie said...

Great cards!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our "anything goes with optional flowers” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…

Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)

(DT Crafty Friends)

(DT The Sketchy Challenges)

Chris said...

Imagine that scraps and leftovers could look so good! I'm way late on my graduation card - thanks for the inspiration. :) I wanted to thank you for playing along with my heARTful stamping challenge during April!