Congratulations to the tassled one!

Hello, crafting friends!

 

Thank you so much to those who sent me messages of support and encouragement as I recovered from the various illnesses that tripped me up over the last couple of weeks! The main thing on my mind was that I really, REALLY wanted to go to my youngest son's graduation ceremony but luckily I bounced back to full fitness for that. (I'm still wanting to know who thought it would be a great idea to do graduation ceremonies a couple of weeks before Christmas though... it's got to someone who has never had to organise a Christmas event in their lives hasn't it?!)

 

Before setting off on a beautiful frosty morning, I rustled up this graduation card. I started by sponging yellow ink into a diamond-shaped stencil Inkylicious, taped at an angle off the top edge of my card base, and adding a little red ink on one side to add a bit of depth.  This stencil was a gift from a lovely friend and is SO useful!

 

 

I used a tiny snippet of blue card to cut the numbers using a die from The Works, glueing them to the card front. A congratulations sentiment was stamped on a white off-cut of card in red, snipped out and layered over the top. I thought I had a graduation cap stamp but I couldn't find it, so I had to draw one! It took a couple of tries (and a few more snippets!) but I think it passes as long as you don't put your specs on!! I added a few enamel dots and stars to distract the eye ;)

CHALLENGES

I turned to CAS Colours and Sketches for colour inspiration for this card, so I'm linking up there. I'm also sharing this card at The Snippets Playground - I used blue snippets and white snippets for the numbers, the congratulations sentiment and the grad cap.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Poor Eva was not impressed when she saw both of The Staff getting togged up in frocks and suits - she knows what that means!! But then she discovered that her human sister had come to look after her and airily waved us away.

 

This photo arrived on my phone while we were en route and I would say she wasn't missing us one little bit!

You'll be glad to know that the graduation ceremony went very well and that my son doffed his cap to the chancellor at just the right moment. Afterwards, we kept our strength up with a slap up meal before returning home to the girls.

Sending hugs,

High Flier

Hello crafting pals!

My grown up offspring are always doing things that make me proud of them. So I've decided that instead of scrambling about to make quick cards when I hear about their successes, I will create a stash of cards to keep on hand  - like this one:

I've gone a bit die crazy for this card! First I cut two card panels with my largest Heffy Doodles stitched rectangle, one in sky blue, the other in cloud white. The white one was cut in half on the diagonal with a Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Border die.

The swallow was cut with a Xcut Dinky Die I found at the Range a month or so ago. (Yesterday I was reading this post by Cat at Cat Luvs Paper, which made me determined to start using the craft stash I've bought but not yet used!) I cut one swallow in navy and one in white and layered them to add a bit of dimension.

The sentiment is made out of words from MFT's From Me To You and the gorgeous 'amazing' from Uniko's You Are, Yes You. I used my stamping platform to make sure I got the positioning right, stamping with navy ink and a splash of red.

CHALLENGES
I'm linking up with Just Add Ink where their gorgeous photo inspired my layout; Happy Little Stampers Die Challenge where Anything Goes this month; and also the Allsorts Challenge where they're looking for Anything With Wings.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

So Friday has come around but I'm not sure if any of us are really getting that Friday feeling at the moment are we? My weekend will involve spring cleaning, dog walking and plenty of crafting. How about you?

Hugs,