Another Graduation Card

Well it looks like summer has finally arrived in New England!! YEAH! I spent so much time outside this weekend and it truly felt wonderful. The weather has been in the mid- to high- 70's, sunny and breezy. Just perfect! I even broke out the "kiddie" pool for the dog today and spent some quality time soaking my feet while I read a book and soaked up some of the suns beautiful rays! :) Can you tell how happy I am? LOL

Last Monday I had my first in-person inteview since being laid-off back in April. While it was very long; I met with four people and had to take a test to prove my skills, it must have gone fairly well since they asked me to come back in tomorrow for yet another interview. This is the fourth time I am speaking with the hiring manager! I think they should be able to make a decision by now, but I have no idea exactly how many people they have to choose from. Hopefully tomorrow will go just as well as last week and I'll be offered the job by the end of the week. Fingers crossed!

Anyway, on to my card post for this week. In addition to the graduation cap card that I showed last week, I also made the following graduation card.

The background paper is called "Stardust" and is part of the Hello Spaceboy collection by Valerie Foster for Prima Marketing, Inc. The stamps I found as a set at Michael's and are from Hampton Arts. I stamped them in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The ribbon is from my stash and started out as a white satin ribbon. Since the card was given to a young man who just graduated from high school I didn't think white satin was very appropriate, so I colored the ribbon with my black Copic. Cool huh?

Can you believe I'm still making graduation cards? We have two more parties to attend this coming weekend. I'll post pictures as soon as they are done. Also I got some new Cuttlebug Border Embossing folders so I'm hoping to be able to play with those more soon!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a wonderful week.

-Janice

Additional Info & New Cards

First off I need to say that the cards I made from the previous post were inspired from the book "Susan's Journal of Paper Engineering Secrets" by Susan Cobb. I should have included this information in that post but frankly I was way too tired to go find the book that night!

The first card I'm posting today was inspired by a sketch from 2 Sketches 4 You. The flower and button have not been secured to the card yet because I'm still not convinced they are the right element for the card. I also plan to add a sentiment once I figure out who I will send the card to. I just love the purple swirled paper I used on this one but I can't find the name of it. Sorry.



The second card was something I came up when I got frustrated making the first card. The multi-colored paper is called "The Goods" from American Crafts and I'm pretty sure I got it at AC Moore. This is a double-sided paper with the back, or reverse, being solid orange. It's a really nice paper.


Now I'm trying to make a box without using someone else's template. I know there are plenty of free templates and even templates you can buy on the internet but I thought I could figure it out for myself. I must say that it's coming along pretty well. I just wish I could have found the specific paper I was looking for. Stay tuned ...

Make time each day to be creative.

-Janice

Welcome

My interest in paper crafting began in August 2008, not really that long ago. My husband and I enjoy camping and every year we go to a wonderful place in central New Hampshire on Lake Ossippee. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t very cooperative this past year and it rained for 5 of the 7 days we were camping. My sister was with us this year and she brought along some scrapbook supplies. She loves to take pictures and had received a couple of scrapbook kits the previous year for Christmas. Well, she asked for my help and the rest, as they say, is history!

While I’m not yet much of a scrapbooker I did develop a fascination with making my own cards. We even went so far as to purchase a die-cut machine called a Klick-N-Kut Element. While I would like to think I’m fairly computer literate my husband is really the whiz in this area. He designs and cuts anything I need! He really is wonderful!

We were off on vacation the week between Christmas and New Year’s and we were fortunate to come across a wonderful scrapbook store in Manchester, NH. We took a Winter Card/Thank You class taught by the fabulous Jen D. You can see more of her creations here. She is an instructor for A Muse, a company which I am falling in love with! They have some of the most wonderful stamps.

Here is a sample of the cards we made that night. I have already used two of them! Yeah!
























Well I think that’s enough for my first post! LOL I’m actually not that talkative but I figured I should give a bit of history on how I became enchanted with card making.

I don’t think it’s realistic of me to think I will post every day, so I’m aiming for once a week. We’ll see how it goes.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you’ll visit again soon.

Try to make time each day to be creative!

-Janice