Graduation Cap Card

My niece is graduating from college this year and I wanted to make her a special card. I've been seeing this type of Graduation Cap Card on the internet and decided to try it out. I used the tutorial found here: http://dostamping.typepad.com/dostamping_with_dawn/2010/06/grads-dads-grad-hat-fun-fold-card.html (there's also a video).  I used the Diploma Day stamp set to embellish my card and retired Cranberry grosgrain ribbon to make my tassel (the video has a great description about making tassels out of grosgrain ribbon). I also used the Cranberry sheet from the Paper Fundamentals Adventure Assortment. The Paper Fundamentals have one side with a colored and white pattern and one side with a subtle glossy pattern. I used the glossy side in my previous post with the Mother's
Day card but it may be difficult to see the pattern in those pictures.

Here is how the card looks when it is open. I used 3-D Foam Tape to pop up the white portion, which is also where I stamped. This gave me a little pocket so that I could include a gift card, money or a check with my card.

I added another white panel to the back of my card so that we could have room to write a message.

 I have a good friend who went back to school after being in the work force for many years and she will be graduating from Law School(!) this year. I thought it would be fun to make her a similar card and try to make a purple tassel to match what she will actually have. So I am looking for purple grosgrain ribbon...but I may end up making her tassel out of embroidery thread.

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Taste of Summer Mother's Day Tri-Fold Card

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! 

I'm sharing the card I made for my mom using the Taste of Summer paper pack and stamp set, only available during the month of May in honor of National Scrapbooking month. I love Tri-Fold Shutter cards because you can really embellish and make them pop!

Here's how it looks closed. I cut out the "m's" and circles using my CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge. I used Juniper and Cranberry inks to stamp my strawberries and sentiments.

When you open it, you can see all the panels. I used the CTMH Artiste Cricut Cartridge to cut my little label where I stamped "Happy Mother's Day" (from the Just To Say Cricut Collection stamp set).

You can see some more of the dimension in this view.

And here's one more open view as it's standing up. The red ribbon is our retired grosgrain Cranberry ribbon and the red cardstock is the Cranberry from the Paper Fundamentals Adventure Assortment. The base of my card is a sheet of Smoothie cardstock.

You can do a Google search for a Tri-fold Shutter card but the measurements I used for my card base are 12" x 5.5" and I scored lines using my scoring blade in my paper trimmer at 2", 4", 8", and 10" as I held the paper horizontally. I cut from 1.5" measuring down from the top edge and up from the bottom edge going from the 2" mark to the 10" mark. I liked this video on YouTube to get a better idea of how to make this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeaG4wvdZbw

Here's another video I looked at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWrnqMoaCnQ

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Paper Doll - It's Your Birthday

I have another sneak peek for you of one of my favorite new stamp sets from the new CTMH catalog. This cute girl is from the set (D1547) Paper Doll which will be available on February 1st. She was a lot of fun to color. I am slowly adding to my marker collection. Both copics and CTMH. I have yet to get a black alcohol marker (and shades of it) though and my daughter was extremely annoyed that I did not color the paper doll's hair black, which is the color of my daughter's hair! It gives me a good excuse to buy more markers, no?

This is the first time I have ever made a Center Step card. I used a wonderful tutorial from Beccy's Place. She has great tutorials for all sorts of differently folded cards here and is working on putting up more.

 

 

Here is a view of the inside...

...and here's a side view just to give you a better idea of what the card looks like.

 

Supplies Used (All Close To My Heart)--

Patterned Paper: Chantilly (available 2/1/13)

Cardstock: Crytal Blue, Buttercup, White Daisy

Stamp Sets: (D1547) Paper Doll, (D1475) Card Chatter-Birthday

Markers: Pear set, Sorbet set, Sky set, Cotton Candy set, Honey set

Stamp Pad: Archival Black

Embellishments: Hollyhock Brads, Foam Tape, Just Blooms Paradise Paper Flowers, Twill Ribbon (retired)

 

I'm linking up with Heart2Heart for their Fancy Fold Technique Challenge, Friday Mashup 93: Making a Birthday Project with some Brads, and ABC Challenges.

 

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