Just Us Girls #540 - Trend Week

Hi friends!  Hoping you are all well in these trying times.

We have a new challenge over at Just Us Girls.  This week it's our Trend Week challenge and Ina has chosen for us to
Frame It!

I needed a graduation card for one young man that is missing out on a lot of fun times in his high school senior year, just like all seniors this year.  His school colors are burgundy and white so this is what I came up with.  To keep with the challenge I framed the congrats sentiment and grad cap with this grid frame.  I added it with spray adhesive then added the sentiment and grad hat which were popped up with craft foam.  I made the tassel gold, so I added yellow crystals for some sparkle as well as some shimmer on the sentiment and grad cap.

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our June guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Paper:  Recollections white, yellow, burgundy

Accessories:  Grid frame, extra large congrats, grad cap (all SSS), crystals, shimmer, craft foam 

Congrats You Did It!



Happy Sunday!  I went to a graduation party yesterday for our neighbor's son.  We have known him since he was a baby (he calls us aunt and uncle), so I wanted to make a nice card for him.  I stole this design from Maureen's card that I saw and saved a little while ago.  Hers was a bit more girly, so I had to man this up!  I didn't have anything appropriate for a male grad, so I went to my Silhouette Cameo machine and dusted it off (literally!).  I don't think I've used it in about a year!  Shame on me, I know!  I purchased three designs (each on sale for only $.75!) because I wasn't sure which I would use.  I ended up using all of them.  His high school colors are green and gold, so I cut the numbers from yellow cardstock and adhered it to a piece of green pattern paper.  On the right, I added a panel on dimensional tape, the sentiment, and the grad silhouette.  I didn't add any sequins or enamel dots like I normally would for a girly card (darn those boys!).  This card is a little bigger too...4.5" x 6".

I decided to add the other grad silhouette on the inside with another sentiment.  Look at how detailed that silhouette is and how nicely it was cut with the Cameo.  I've got to use it more often!  On the envelope (I didn't take a picture of it) I added the same sentiment as on the inside and a grad cap silhouette.

 

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Recipe

Stamps:  Signature Greetings III and Wet Paint (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, daffodil delight, black, Summer Picnic dp

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Silhouette Cameo, By the Numbers dies (PTI), dimensional tape





Happy Graduation!

Happy Sunday!  I went to a graduation party yesterday for my husband's cousin's daughter (follow me?).  This Grad Girl stamp set from My Favorite Things is the only graduation set I have.  I actually cased myself with this graduation card I made for my niece.  Hope you like it!

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Recipe

Stamps:  Grad girl (MFT)

Paper:  Neenah white, Beautiful Life (Echo Park)

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine black onyx, copic markers

Accessories:  Rectangular nesties, sunflower die (MFT), SU border punch, WPlus9 flag die, star dust stickles



My Time Made Easy Release Day - A Little Bit S'more

Today is release day at My Time Made Easy and the entire team is posting today.  This month's theme is centered around camping.  We have a turtle template, a vintage camper tempate, three stamp sets with camping images and sentiments, cut files, and paper oh my!!   You can see all the new products here on the MTME website.

So if we have a camping theme, why are you seeing a graduation girl?  Well, the MTME templates can be used in a variety of ways!  Wait until you see what the girls have come up with!  I've been in graduation mode.  My niece is graduating at the end of the month and I've just finished making her party invitations...40 of them!  So I used the Happy Camper template and turned it into a head and placed a graduation cap on it!  I have to admit that I got the idea to use the template as a head from Lauren...she created a wowzer with hers and I just ran with that idea!

I cut the template out of Blush cardstock.  I used a 3/4" punch for the blue eyes and a hand held punch for the whites.  I added some eyelashes and pupils with a black marker.  The smile was created using the handle from the Treasured template.  I just had to cut off a bit of it to get the right shape.  For the cheeks, I punched a 1" circle and used the negative piece as a template to stipple some pink ink on either side of the smile.  So cute!  Then I cut a 3 3/4" square out of purple cardstock (my niece's school colors are purple and white) for the cap.  My niece is graduating with honors and will have a gold tassle, so I added a gold tassle and attached it to a glittery gold brad.  See how she's looking at that tassle and smiling?  So is my niece!  She's so happy to be graduating with honors because she has worked so hard to earn it!  The top of the template opens to put something inside, but I thought these would be very cute table decorations.  I may make more for her party!

 Here is the invation I made.  I used Maria's graduation picture and created this in my photo editing program.  I got the idea to place the number vertically from an invitation I saw online.  The pawprints on the bottom are from the Sign It stamp set.  Her school's nickname is the Bulldogs, so I had to add the paw prints!  I just love the way these came out!

Here they are together.  So cute!  I just wish I had some of that curly hair they used for dolls that I could put on my template.  She needs some hair I think!  ;-)

Like I said before, the entire design team is posting today, so stop by these blogs to see what they have to show you.

MTME Blog
MTME Gallery
Lauren Meader
Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Farida Rone
Kimberly Morrow
Linda Hammerton
Lori Hairston
Lori Kalus
Mara Campbell
Pattie Goldman
Tangii Crain

Thanks for stopping by today!  We have more inspiration coming from this release, so please stop by again!