More Graduation Mice

I had some extra mouse images .... I tend to stamp more images than I need so that if I make a coloring error, etc, I have more already to use. I had discovered they looked really cute sitting on top of a mortarboard (here), but I didn't want to waste these first images. :-)

Graduation card

I'm don't know what company to credit for the bicycle; it was in a handful of stamped images from a friend. I thought it fit well with a graduation theme!

Edit: Thank you, Mary Frances, for your encouragement and for the company credit on the bicycle! Art Impressions created the image!

In a hurry graduation card

If you are a cardmaker, and don't take pictures of your cards, I highly recommend you start doing so. I love the ideas I get from stamping blogs and magazines, but sometimes, as when I created this card, when I am in a tearing hurry, it's great to have a card that I can duplicate precisely ... I know I have the stamps and almost certainly still have some of the matching cardstock! (And even in a hurry, I can't bring myself to dulplicate someone else's card anyway!) This was a card design I had made when I first started doing cards, and remade, with the only change being the cuttlebug die cut I used for the cap. Guy cards always seem to be harder to design, so I'm so glad I had photographed this!

Graduation cards

I love this darling little mouse from smARTworks. When I saw this card from Dini at Mama Dini's Stamperia, I knew I had to have it! I planned to make a similar card with it as I also owned the roses. Shortly after I received the mouse, I realized I needed graduation cards in time for college. As soon as I saw this cap from Biblical Impressions, I knew the size of the image was perfect. And having a diploma small enough to fit in the sign was the icing on the cake!

Graduation

I originally made this card for a couple of graduates in our church, but my son, who is graduating now, it going into the navy, so I think I will be remaking it for him! I just love map stamps, and the antique map theme, and it also matches with his bedroom, which has vintage planes, trains, and ships on the wallpaper border, and various clipper ships, etc, that have ended up in his room to add to the theme.

The paper is from an old box of typing paper I picked up from an old business. Remember that parchement-like stuff? Distress inks work really well on it.

Editing is such fun!

I love being able to edit photos! I thought this picture would be great for those seeking God's direction in their lives, especially at graduation! But I did have one concern over the weather vane ... that coachman riding at the back of the coach was swigging a bottle of spirits! Not quite appropriate for a Christian card, lol! So, I erased his bottle!

Re yesterday's post: I think, if everything comes through that has been promised, I'll have most of what is needed stamp-wise for the trip. If you have an interest, please let me know, as there are just a few things left to be gotten, and of course, sometimes people mean well, but are not able to come through with what they planned to for a myriad of reasons... I'll post more in a few days...

Black and white card challenge

Day two of Denise Bryant's challenge. I'm having so much fun! This is probably only the second square card I have ever made!

The black cardstock panel and square were already stamped from an earlier project. When I found them this morning, I decided to make an "elegant" looking card. However, the cardstock had its own ideas! It's a familiar feeling from when I used to do a lot of writing. I'd start out with a particular storyline, or idea for a character, and end up going in a totally different direction, without consciously deciding to. The squares were attached with foam pieces to make them stand out.

In order to make the baroque pattern (stamped in black & embossed) stand out, I had to lighten the card; the black is actually a very deep black, not grey as it appears. The cord and brad are silver.

Stamps are from Eureka.

Edit: I couldn't help it, I had to make it into an A2 card for my friend's shop!

Second edit: I decided this card would be great for my next workshop. One of the ladies thought it was perfect for a graduation card, and made a tassel for the black panel!