Papertrey Ink and MFT Graduation card

Hello everyone,

Recently, my posts have been scheduled, first because I was away and then because I had to empty my craftroom for decorating. I was dreading doing this and had been putting it off for ages, but the carpet was worn down to the floor around my desk and I couldn't put it off any longer. My amazing family helped me with all the work and I am now putting the last things back into place. I've been asked to show some piccies, and once I have my new computer up and running, I'll have a go at that. I haven't been around your blogs for a while but I hope to remedy that next week and see what everyone has been up to.

Well we are ready for a new challenge over at Simply Create Too and this time the theme is feathers. Sadly, our lovely challenge organiser Angie has  just lost her much loved Boxer, Bleu, who died yesterday, so the challenge post will be a bit late this time.

I came up with this card

I used an old Papertrey Ink stamp that had a feather in it and made a graduation card, but in all my chaos, I couldn't find the details, so if you want to know more, please send an email and I'll find out for you. I used a die from one of the MFT Blueprints set to cut out the panel, and a stitching die made the borders more interesting. I glittered the feather spines and they look lovely in real life!

Why not visit the blog to see lots of inspiration from the team, and join in with us this time.

I'd like to play along with

Mod Squad Challenge - the die's the thing

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - make for the border

Words to Craft by - a single step

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink Graduation card.

Hello everyone,

Its Friday afternoon and I have a great weekend to look forward to because my lovely daughter is home for the weekend! She is a teacher and works really hard, as they all seem to do, so is in great need of her half term break this coming week. So before I get busy, I'd like to share a graduation card I made with my current favourite Papertrey Ink colour combination of enchanted evening and Hawaiian shores, for another monochromatic look. I'm going to enter this card into the Stampin for the Weekend challenge.

I used For the Graduate stamps set and Mat stack 1 die along with Hawaiian shores ribbon. All the stamping was embossed in white and I cut out the hat and raised it on pop dots for some dimension. I didn't put a bow on this card so it will go through the post with the normal charges.

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking in.

Hugs

Carol x

PTI Anniversary Graduation card

Hello everyone,

I'm still playing along with the Papertrey Ink anniversary celebrations, and today we were challenged to make a card using sentiments as the focal point. I decided to make a graduation card for a man because I always think I stink at masculine cards and I need to get better at it.




For some reason this looks a little blurry on my screen but if you click on it the larger picture is a bit better.

I used several sentiments from the For the Graduate stamp set and also stamped and cut out the graduation cap which I raised to give some dimension. I added sentiments from other sets and also made a scroll and tied it with twine. I inked around and over the white panel to soften the starkness of the white and used black gingham ribbon and put some star brads on either side of the focal panel. Phew, that took me out of my comfort zone!

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs
Carol x