Graduation Celebration

Before I get to the cards today, I wanted to let you know that I will be on a little blog break.  As the school year is winding down, the activities are speeding up.  I wish I could be more consistent at commenting right now, but it's just not happening.  Please bear with me, I hope to be back at full speed in June.

We have several graduations to celebrate this year, and I've had a friend asking for some graduation cards too.  I know I sound like a mother when I say, "these kids are growing up way too fast!"  This first card is inspired by Jennifer Mullen's card here.  I loved the way she arranged the buildings.

I cut the banner out of a cut file on the Silhouette.  The cool thing was using the MISTI to perfectly place the sentiment on the banner!  I kept the negative cut, positioned the sentiment, and placed the banner piece back inside like a puzzle.  I'm such a happy card maker right now!

I used Paper Smooches Super stamp set, Smarty Pants stamp set, Sentiment Sampler stamp set, Super 2 dies, Clouds dies, and Bam Bubble dies.  I colored Mr. Super Guy and his cap with Copics.  His hand was cut out a bit for him to hold on to the cap.  The papers are from PTI, and all the card bases on this post are Paper Studios.

These two cards were made with an older Stampin' Up! mortar board colored with Copics.  The clouds were cut using Paper Smooches Clouds dies and the sentiment is PTI's Swoosh stamp set and dies.  The paper is PTI's Spring Rain.

These last two cards used the same Stampin' Up! mortar board and Technique Tuesday's Incredible.  The sentiments were heat embossed with Wow! embossing powders and then the card base was splattered with DI Black Soot.

I used the colors on my first card from this week's Color Throwdown #342  Hey, and he's up in the air too!

I thought I'd throw one last card in the ring over at Virginia's View Challenge Blog where challenge #14 is all about dimension - my favorite!  I've added dimension to each of these graduation cards, but I just really like the depth of the first card.

Thanks for coming over to visit!  I hope you have a wonderful day!  I will see you all back in June!

Kara Lynne