Graduation party favor

My son went to a graduation party and brought home this cute favor. I thought I would share it on my blog.

Super easy to make.

2 1/2 x 2 1/2" piece of black card stock
Embroidery floss in school colors
Paper fastener
Condiment cup with cover
Candy

Cut card stock
Punch a hole in the middle or just push the fastener through
Wrap the colored embroidery floss around the fastener
Take the bottom of condiment cup and push the fastener through or hot glue the black cardstock to it
Turn over fill with candy and put cover on. Cute!

Graduation! Card

My son asked if I had a card already created as he was going to a graduation party.

Luckily I had the base card made and just added the sentiments to the front and inside.
Inside sentiment from Stampin Up as well as the fancy label punch I used to cut out the sentiment. Both sentiments were raised on foam squares.

Graduation card using paint chips

My friend son graduated high school last year and she threw him a party. I looked up what the colors were for that school and used paint chips to use for the pennant.
The tags are punches from Stampin Up in which I layered music sheets and the paint chip tags.

I added film strip die strip in black cardstock to the angled tri-fold card.

Graduation cards

My sister's kids moved on (I believe they call it promote - promotion) from one school to the next level and wanted to make them some specials cards.

 Alycia and Benjamin finished Middle school and now will be entering the High School in the fall so I made these two cards for them.
Christopher has finished the elementary school and will be entering the middle school in the fall and made this for him.
 I picked up a TGI Friday gift card for them to go out for a bite to eat. I used the stars embossing folder from Cuttlebug, the sentiment from Stampin' Up and the graduation cap from a Cricut cartridge. (I had a few left over from the invitations I made a couple months ago)

Graduation card using Wild Card Cricut Cartridge

Well - I wanted to make a wild fun Graduation card for my son who graduated Thursday.

I cut the cap from Wild Card Cricut Cartridge at 8", cut the "Class of" at 7" and the 2013 at 2".. yes weird but that Provo Craft for ya!

I cut the gold, black and green stars from a Sizzix die (school colors green and gold). Sorry the gold and one of the green stars look weird in color tone. The gold is metallic card stock so I assume the flash played off of that at such a late hour of the night (un-natural lighting)

Congrats Rob!

Graduation Invites

I needed to make these quickly and went to work with my Cricut to help me out. Tuesday night I managed to get 10 completed and mailed on Tuesday and Wednesday and I have 10 more to make to give to my son.

I cut the Graduation Caps at 2 inches from the A Child's Year cartridge (raised on foam squares) and the word You're Invited (key #6) from Wild Card at 5". Which is deceiving because it is so small but I lucked out as it fit perfect on the banner!

I have to make more - this time I am cutting the sentiment from vinyl as it will be easier to remove than those darn little pieces from the center and around the words! Stay tune for a "second" look.

Mounted it on a white banner which was cut from a Sizzix (SU! retired) die and onto red cardstock, corner punched with also a retired SU! corner punch, one of my favorite for a more elegant formal look than the traditional square or rounded corners.

My First Cascade card

I kept seeing these cards and well, I finally broke down and made one.

I did a video so you can see the details.
I used Martha Stewart border punch, the Tim Holtz medallion rosette die and a Sizzix thin die for the swirls.

Graduation Cap

My Daughter and I decorated her cap last Thursday evening. She was graduating the next day and it looked great!

We used glitter cardstock from Michael's. I hand cut the sorority letters DPhiE also out of purple glitter card stock The year was also hand cut. I could have used my cricut for all the letters and numbers but was not sure it would go cleanly through the thick glitter cardstock.
Kristen glued on the letters, the string of purple gems and the ribbon.

We are so proud of her graduating after 5 years (Physical Therapy) from Northeastern University Summa Cum Laude! She now has a year of clinicals stepping forth into PT.

Graduation Card for a friend

Here is a card I made using the paper doilies I picked up at a store, there were 30 in a pack and a perfect size for card. Pairing it with a couple Sizzix embossing folders (background and the butterfly). Also used Stampin' Up punches and a Teeny Tiny Sentiment, I got to use up some scraps (I have my scraps sorted by color in file folders) to complete this card.

Finished off the butterfly with some flat back pearls. The border is a Martha Stewart punch to go with the lace doily theme. Quick card to pull together.

Graduation Card - modified

You may have remembered this card from this post.

Since I am giving this to a male graduating student (party on Saturday for Ryan), I removed the butterflies and added layered graduation cap stickers.

Congrats to Ryan and good luck in NJ!

Graduation card

My daughter's boyfriend graduated from Northeastern University last Friday. The school colors are red and black so I made this card for him. I need to pick up a couple gift cards before I can mail the card to him. Luckily he also landed a job right out of college!!!

I used two different embossing folders from Stampin' Up Sizzix brand. The tag is a Spellbinders die held on with vintage twine.

Assembly Thank you cards

After the wonderful gifts my boys received for their graduation and birthday - I needed to be able to get these cards created for them to add a thought or two inside and get them in the mail!

I think it's important that young children write thank you cards in appreciation but that is my personal choice as a parent.

So last night I set out to create these.
I used an embossing folder from Stampin' Up called Square lattice and embossed the ivory blank note cards. To match their invitations, I sent out originally, I used the same purple card stock and Martha Stewart border punch to keep it all relative.

Glued them down to the base card - whew two steps done. (Look out carpel tunnel!)
Next step 3 and 4 was to stamp the Thank You sentiment and punch it out with the fancy label punch both from Stampin Up. Lastly - adhere the sentiment on the border so the point hits between the scallop on the border as seen above. 5 steps and 16 cards done in a little over an hour. Simple but elegant and effective! I have 5 more to create - but I am going to individualize those differently for a few folks.

Graduation Cards

As mentioned my twin boys graduated from High School and I planned their party last Saturday. Glad it went well and it's over. Now back to crafting and reading blogs!!!!

Here are the cards I made for them. There are multiple layers to allow us for writing on the inside.

I cut the card from Cricut cartridge Locker talk at 5". To add the cap to the top - you have to actually measue the inner cut which was about 2 1/4" and then cut a cap alone to fit on top.

Since they wore black cap and gowns (the girls i ntheir class wore purple) and their school colors were purple gold and black - I alternated the purple and black to try and make each one a little unique.

The stamp sentiment is one I think I got from the dollar wooden stamp bin at M's... I used embossing glod glitter powder and raise it on foam squares.
Entered this card at Sentimental Sundays - masculine card

Graduation Invites

Our twin boys are graduating this year from High School and these are the invite cards I made (with the help of my daughter who was home from college for a couple days)

I used Locker Talk Cricut cartridge to cut the graduation cap at 3". The phrase was cut at 2 1/2" from Beyond Birthdays. The cap is raised on foam squares for depth.

Added a couple black heat glue on rhinestones that were made for clothing - but I used by iRock! to glue them on. (tried to keep it manly)

Graduation Card - using Wild Card

Well - I'll be leaving in an hour and Wild Card cart to the rescue
Quick and easy.
Keep in mind this cuts small!!!
Set it at 5" and the sentiment at 1 1/2". I inked all to give more definition and added a brad to hold the tassel in place.

inspire - altered picture frame with etching

I cut out the sentiment from Home Accents solutions Cartridge I believe at 1 1/2 or 2" (sorry forgot, I had this etched for two weeks trying to figure out what i was going to use for pp)

Added a mauve solid background so the etching can show through. Accented the base with the Sizzix swirl and rhinestone. (Click the picture please to see the etching)

Another graduation gift for my niece. She is also getting a gift card but I made just put it in a card I already made. The party is tomorrow and I am tired!

I chose the inspire sentiment as she graduated with the degree of a Health teacher, she wants to teach at the local H.S.

CD Altered mini album

Made this mini album for my niece for a graduation present.
4 CD's covered with pattern paper and embossing
Cover Glitter graduation paper. Added 2010 from Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge
page 1 and page 2, embossing with the cuttlebug, SU DSP and Martha Stewart border punches made the pockets, Added a couple looped pearls:
page 3 and page 4; wide lace made an accent on the left page and on the right page white lace is the pocket accent. A crochet flower (by me) with a Prima and rhinestone. 4 tags added to the pocket for more pictures

page 6 and page 7; more SU DSP, a hand made (by me)hat pin and a tag for pictures
Entered this into Tuesday Taggers who giving a great prize this week from Tanda Stamps

This also goes with the challenge at the Sisterhood of crafters.