Congratulations Grad ~ CTC24

Hey everyone!  Today I'm playing with CASE-ing the Catty #24.  This is my first time playing along with the challenge.  I love the idea of this challenge site, though!  I encourage you to check it out and play along too!

The challenge this time was to CASE anything from the Easter section of the Occasions Catalogue (page 34 and 35).

• You can directly CASE a project (Copy and Share Everything) or use a sketch/layout, colour combo, embellishment, just to name a few examples, as a springboard for your own creations. 
• Or simply use some new Stampin' Up! Easter supplies from the Occasions Catalogue.

I used the card on page 34 on the bottom left side of the page as my inspiration.  I drew inspiration from the striped background, bold center panel, and the circle cutout with ribbon/string down the middle.

I decided to get a jump on graduation cards.  I used the Congratulations from {Bravo} and inked it up ombre style with Pistachio Pudding and Coastal Cabana.  I added stars in a sprinkle fashion after punching them out of Silver Glimmer paper with my Star Confetti punch.  Lastly I added a fussy cut graduation cap (which I colored a bit with a blender pen and Coastal Cabana ink) popped up on a dimensional.  Fun stuff!

Here's a list of my supplies.....

Stamps: Bravo, Pure Gumption

Ink: Coastal Cabana, Pistachio Pudding, Memento Black

Paper: Best Year Ever DSP, Coastal Cabana, Black, White

Accessories: Confetti Stars punch, 1/4" black ribbon

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Sassy Grad ~ DD52 & FM109

 

Dynamic Duos is celebrating!  To commerate their one year anniversary, we get to pick any past DD color combo.  I did a six month stint as a designer at DD, so I have a special affection for these challenges!  I chose to go with color combo #7...Melon Mambo and Basic Black.

 

Graduation is still the name of the game for me lately.  I am almost done, however....whew!  My grand total is up to 19 graduation cards! We live in a small, rural community and I have teenagers, so we have recieved several graduation announcements.  I also have a middle school grad this year, so that means gifts for his fellow classmates. 

For this card I used the sketch from The Friday Mashup....I missed the deadline by just a couple of hours though!  Shoot!    

 

I've had this fun black and white paper that I bought at Hobby Lobby for quite a while now.  I've mainly only used it in the spring for graduation cards, and here it is again!  I thought the leopard print was really fun and goes well with the bright Melon Mambo.  I was trying to come up with some different combos of stamps for my grad cards also.  I'm the kind of girl who likes to make one and be done.  I hardly ever make mulitples of the same card.  This fun little phrase from Pure Gumption fit just perfectly into the modern label punch, which fit perfectly into the medallion from the valentine stamp set Affection Collection.  The little No. 1 banner is also from Affection Collection.  I think the two sets fit nicely together! 

 

Here's a list of all my supplies.....

Stamps: Pure Gumption, Affection Collection

Paper: Melon Mambo, Floral District & Recollections DP, Black, White

Ink: Black, Melon Mambo

Accessories: 1/4" black ribbon, rhinestones, circle cutter, modern label punch

 

Happy Anniversary Dynamic Duos! 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Great Pure Gumption ~ FMS85 & SR175

 

Here's another graduation card....'tis the season!  I have 16 to make and give, plus I've had a couple orders too.  This one combines Freshly Made Sketches 85 and Stampin' Royalty 175.

 

Stampin Royalty was a photo inspiration, and I mainly just used the color scheme. 

I used a sentiment from Pure Gumption and stamped it onto a die cut from the Apothecary Art die set.  I used my paper pierce pack to pierce the white piece.  For the banners, I used a stamp from Great Grads, stamped it in Pool Party and Early Espresso and cut out the banner shapes.  I mounted the coordinating color behind them.  A scrap from the Sent With Love DSP was the perfect backdrop for the main medallion and I added on some dazzling diamonds glitter, rhinestone brads, and Pool Party ribbon to finish the card off. 

 

 

Here's a list of supplies....

Stamps: Pure Gumption, Great Grads

Paper: Sent With Love DSP, Pool Party, Early Espresso, White

Ink: Pool Party, Early Espresso

Accessories: Rhinestone brads, Pool Party satin ribbon, Apothecary Art die, paper pierce pack, Dazzling Diamonds glitter

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

 

Black and Gray Grad ~ DD49

 

Welcome to another Dynamic Duos Saturday!  Our colors of the week are Basic Black and Basic Gray with a masculine dessert option. 

 

 

Whew!  What a whirlwind week I've had....actually it's been about a week and a half.  I've had something major going on almost everyday, which has involved alot of running around.....I'm tired people!  My post is a little late today, too.  That's because I didn't have time to do it last night and I slept in this morning.  It felt so good!

Anyway, enough about that.  Let's get onto stamping!!!!

Graduation season is coming up fast here in our little community and I have a several cards to make for it.  This was a good color combo for a grad card, I thought.  I had recently purchased the Pure Gumption set, as well as the Measuring Stick Stampin' Around Wheel, so I put them together.  The card is fairly simple with litlle embelishment, but for a manly card that what you want I guess.  I was trying to think of some other creative things I could do with it....maybe something different with the graduation cap, but my brain was fried this week!  I guess I was sticking with the theme of "basic"!

 

 

Here's a list of my supplies.....

Stamps: Pure Gumption, Measuring Stick

Paper: Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Basic Gray, Scarringbone & Howlingstooth DSP

Ink: Black

Accessories: Big Dot EF, circle punch, Black grossgrain ribbon, Silver brad

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny