Hello everyone: It's Twofer Time again!!! Woo Hoo!! so here are the cards I created to play along.
These cards are so very special for me because they are for my two older grandchildren. Vanessa will be 21 on May 24th. and Gabriel will graduate from High School in June. I'm amazed at how time has flown and how these beautiful children have grown into amazing, healthy, sweet, talented, and loving young adults, we couldn't be more proud of them and feel so fortunate and blessed to have them in our lives since the day they were born.
I created these cards with very little stamping and hardly any coloring. I used the retired SU die set called "Balloon Pop-Up Thinlits Dies", I've used it a couple of times before but I don't think I've shared any cards made with it.
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Ok, so this is Vanessa's card. The balloons are cut from silver foil card stock, I wish they would show up right but you know how difficult is to photograph foil paper. I fussy cut red foil paper to put in the back of the balloons so it would show through. I also die cut the "strings" from scraps of the red foil paper.
The sentiment was stamped on a die cut piece of white card stock using one of the dies from a retired SU set called "Itty Bitty Banners", the word and number were stamped using some of the stamps from a Concord & 9th. called "Happy Day", thank goodness for the MISTI, I finished it off with a pretty red bow.
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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.
The sentiment is from my stash and the little cupcake from a Penny Black set called "CUPCAKES".
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This is Gabriel's (18) Graduation card.
I used the pop-up die to cut this panel but I used the "Wonky Stitched dies" from Gina Marie to just make a front for my card with black card stock, the balloons and strings were die cut separately from scraps of the red foil paper and then glued to the black balloon base, it took some doing but I'm happy with the results. I wanted to heat emboss the sentiment in gold but I didn't like it how it looked with the black banner so using a scrap piece of red card stock, I die cut just the banner and cut the strings and then, heat embossed the sentiment, I hope you can see the shine.
The Cap and Diploma I'm not sure I remember where I got them but they sure come in handy for really cool graduation cards.
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This is how the INSIDE of this card looks like.
I kept the inside pretty simple, you know how it is with young men's cards, the front is fine with the only bling coming from the red foil card stock.
The stamped frame, the little diploma, and the sentiment are from a bargain bin stamp set from Fiskars, bought some years ago for $1.00, love the fabulous stuff you can find in those bins if you are willing to kind of rummage around a little.
Anyway, there they are, these cards for my grandbabies (sniff, sniff) all grown up now but still, sweet as pie.
I'm playing along with the following challenges.
Anything Goes/Anything for a Male.
The second card is for my Grandson.
Thank you for stopping by, your comments always make my day.
XO
Maria.
