Graduation Gift Card Holder Throwback Thursday Challenge

I needed to make a graduation card for my friend's son who is graduating this next Saturday.  I wanted it to be super nice as she is an avid scrapbooker and this card will almost certainly become a lasting part of his senior scrapbook.  Also, he is one of six valedictorians with a 4 pt GPA.  We are so proud of him!  Here is my card.  I hope you are inspired by it.  I got inspiration from craftingwithkatie.com when she showed a video on how to make a coffee mug gift card holder using the Cheerful Seasons cricut cartridge.   Here is my version. 

For my card I used my Gypsy, Wrap It Up, Plantin Schoolbook and Just Because Cards Cartridges.  I took the graduation cap and scroll from Wrap It Up.  The owl is cut from Just Because Cards and Plantin Schoolbook was used to weld a rectangle to the base of the graduation cap to make the gift card holder portion of the card.  The owl is cut at 10.30 inches (all layers except shadow which is cut at 10.05), the graduation hat at 2.8 inches and the scroll at 1 inch.

 The graduation hat is designed to pull out from behind the shadow layer of the owl which is attached on either side and bottom to the card base with pop dots to allow enough space for the gift card to slide easily.

 To the base of the graduation hat, I welded a rectangle 2.42 inches wide by 6 inches in height to form the base for the gift card, then cut the remaining layers.  I didn't want to use the tassle which is attached to the grad hat, so I cut it off with scissors to allow for a tassle made from baker's twine.  The base of the card is two owl shadows cut at 10.05 inches with two grad caps cut at the 2.8 inches, with the left hand side flipped, then the two images welded together.  The inside Congratulations sentiment is from Stampin' Up and the other is from My Creative Time's My Favorite Sayings stamp set.  I think it goes perfectly!

All cardstock used is from Stampin' Up and colors are certainly celery (discontinued), daffodil delight, really rust, black, more mustard, night of navy and very vanilla.  Googlie eyes are some I picked up at JoAnn's.  I think they are very cute with the eyelashes!  I also used an SU shimmer brad for the button on the top of the cap.

Paper Lace Mother's Day Card

I created these cards for the Peachy Keen Challenge #50 and as I needed to make my Mother's Day cards, I made sure they would fit the theme.  Hope you enjoy them.  Both cards are A2 size.  The sentiment stamp is a single stamp from SU called Mother of Mine and is only available until April 30.  The felt flowers, flower brad and paper are also from SU.  I used my EK Success daisy border punch.  The scalloped flower and shadow is cut from Paperlace at 3.8"  (as I used my Gypsy) and can be found on page 35 of the handbook.  I then layered the scallop circle punch (SU) and cut a flower from the same DSP paper as the base flower and popped it up with a dimensional.

To add some bling (and also to meet the the metallic twist of the challenge), I added silver metallic stickles in the center of each daisy.  I think it dresses it up nicely, although the photo doesn't do it justice.

 I needed more than one card and decided to alter the design just a bit for the second card.  For this card I used flower8 on page 37 of the handbook and cut it at 2.25".  Again I used a SU brad in the center of both flowers.  Both cards are edged with the Martha Stewart double loop border bunch and I placed coordinating DSP inside along the bottom of the card so it would show through for some added decoration and make the double loops pop.

 Again, I used stickles in the center of each flower, this time metallic gold as the silver just didn't seem to show up well.  Hope you find some inspiration for your Mother's Day cards.

Paper Lace Flower appreciation card

Today I have an appreciation card I made from the Paper Lace cartridge.  Again I used my Gypsy to weld to two base shadows from page 25 of the handbook together to make the card.  I flipped the second image from left to right.  These images were cut at 3.80" out of SU Pacific Point cardstock.  I then cut the flower2 feature out of Daffodil Delight.  Next I used the butterfly from page 35 of the handbook and cut the Lace2 and Lace2 Shadow features at 1.40".  I used a discontinued DSP paper for the Lace 2 feature.  I popped the butterfly up in the center of the card using dimensionals.  The outside sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes by SU.  .

I used stickles at the center point of each scallop for a little bit of bling and on the outer edge of the butterfly for a little bling.  Here is a closeup of the butterfly.

For the inside of the card I cut two base shadows from page 25 at 3.20" and stamped the sentiment from Emma's So Grateful For You set.  You can find the link here.  I used core'dinations pearl cardstock and pacific point ink to stamp the sentiment and ink the edges.  I like to put a lighter colored cardstock inside when making cards that will be signed by several individuals as this card will be.

 Here is a snapshot of the back of the card.  I like to do this will all my cards.  This stamp is from a Pink By Design set called Handmade By You.  You can find the link here.  Hope you enjoy and find inspiration to create something today.