Grad Card Showcase

Hi everyone and happy Tuesday! Is the month of May as crazy for your household as it is for ours? So many end-of-the school-year events, graduations, weddings, and more. I took some time this past week to make my graduation card list and get a start on those. I thought I’d share a few with you today!

I pulled out several products from our latest Confetti Encore collection to create these cards. I also pulled out a few cards I had made for the release to act as my inspiration. Sometimes you’re just in the mood to get things done, in which case copying your own past designs is a quick way to accomplish that. I loved Kelly’s tip for doing that last week with her sweet baby cards (using her Lilac card as inspiration), and decided to do the same for a few of these! A change in color scheme and sentiment is sometimes all you need to change a card up to fit a different occasion.

This first card is a complete copy of a more pastel version I created for the Confetti Encore release using the Hey Honeycomb Party Hat die turned upside down to create a party horn instead. This version was created in the grad’s school colors. You can easily change this up to make the same design in any school colors for a card customized for the recipient. All of my cards today also include hot-foiled backgrounds using Ticker Tape and Streamers hot foils. They just seem perfect for grad cards! The sentiment here was cut using the Let’s Have a Word: Congrats die, and finished with a stamped “graduate” sentiment from the Inflated Sentiments set. I foiled the Ticker Tape confetti here using red foil to match my color scheme.

My next card uses the Award Winning die, paired with a sentiment from the Inflated Sentiments set. The background was double-foiled using both the Ticker Tape and Streamers hot foils. Super easy to do, just foil one, then do the other. I did the streamers first and the confetti second so that the confetti looks like it’s falling in front of the streamers. The star accents were cut using the Ribbon Maker Star Strip die. I stamped the “class of 2024” from the Inflated Sentiments set along one of the ribbon tails. These little sentiments are curved to fit in the open space of the larger sentiments in the set, but I just bent it slightly to straighten it out when sticking it to my clear stamping block.

My final card for today uses the Hey Honeycomb Balloon die again with an Inflated Sentiments sentiment stamp. I again double-foiled the background, using Streamers and Ticker Tape. The balloon was diecut from red cardstock and stamped with “congratulations” using black ink. To finish the sentiment I heat embossed the “graduate” portion using gold embossing powder. I added a few of the small curly streamer diecuts from the Hey Honeycomb Balloon set, cut from gold mirror cardstock.

I have about ten more grad cards to make! I will probably stick to these basic layouts as my template, and just change up the colors to fit it graduate, although I am thinking it would be fun to create some more feminine versions by adding some flower or butterfly diecuts among the streamers. I’ll have to see where inspiration takes me! 😉

Take care and thank you so much for joining me today!