Graduation: Cap and Gown

This card came from Frenchie's Stamps; she has a video and instructions.  This card used no stamping on the front, which is unusual for me.  The orange and black are the colors for Billing Senior High for my great-nephew Austin.  Congratulations, Austin!

Graduation with Floral Frame Watercolor

Another graduation card.  The floral frame is place over the water colored piece.  Ribbon, Wink of Stella, and bling were used.  The picture does not really show the detail, but there are two flowers for added dimension.

Congratulations with Tulisa Collage

Graduation is right around the corner.  I water colored two layers.  The top layer I used the Tulisa Collage to cut the design.

Graduation: Balloon and Stars

My son's brother-in-law is graduating from college this weekend.  The school's colors are blue and orange.  I added the metallic silver paper into the color scheme for this gorgeous card.

Colors:
Night of Navy
Tangelo Twist
Metallic Silver

Stamps:
Celebrate Today

Other
Celebrate Today matching dies
Star border punch
Star punch
Baker's twine
Self stick stars

Graduation

This is the month for graduations! I used white card stock for the card base and green for the accent color. The school colors are green and white. I used Cuttlebug's Congratulations embossing folder. The layered rubber-stamped sentiment used Stampin' Up's retired graduation hat and was adhered with dimensionals. I used a ticket punch and brad also.



The inside of the card has a pocket with one twenty dollar bill, even though it looks like two bills. The picture below shows the fold. The pocket for the bill was attached with red sticky tape.



This recipient of this card is male, so I did not use ribbon. Manly cards are still difficult for me.

Graduation 2010

My son graduated from college this year. I wanted to incorporate a tassel into the card because our family saves graduation tassels forever! I used black and gray card stock and Cuttlebug's congratulations embossing folder for the front of the card. The tassel and numbers were embellishments from Jolee's by You.

The stamped images on the front are both from Stampin' Up. I used a corner punch on the front for the year and also the inside panel. I put a gold brad through the top of the mortarboard. I also used a gold brad on the inside to hang the tassel from.

What a wonderful keepsake for my son. And I didn't even use ribbon!