Lori Whitlock June Blog Hop

My grandson Cole graduated June 6th. I can't believe where the time has gone. It seems like yesterday we were making cookies at my house and counting the few freckles on his nose!  1-2-3!

He has played every sport you can think of and has settled on going to college in California and playing football there. I still remember buying him wiffle balls by the dozen so we could play without  getting konked and getting an ouchie! It was always about baseball, basketball, soccer and football. 

Although I am so proud he is moving forward in his life and growing in to a fine young man, I must admit to being a bit sad that he will be so far away from me. But---I am already planning my trips down to see him, and of course sending him lots of cards!

Gwamma Sue and Cole 2010

 

I added the grad hat on dimensionals on the front of the card and then added his name too. I used a card from the Graduation Project Bundle #2 for this card. You can find it in the Silhouette Store HERE as well.

I made this card for my grandniece Cassidy! You can't really tell but all the gold is a pretty shiny textured gold cardstock. I did change this file up a bit by using all gold behind the black.  It's very pretty in real life! Cassidy graduates tonight and then on to college!

Graduation Card Bundle-Lori Whitlock

 5 x 7 Graduation Hat Shaped Card-Silhouette

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Graduation Project Bundle #2 

(Lori Whitlock, Silhouette Store-A2 Graduation Gown)

I also made this for another grandniece-Ava. I  added her name and 2025 to the sash to personalize it.  Inside is a print and cut with the sentiment 'Congratulations on your Graduation'. She's graduating early at 16 and off to college soon as well. Very focused indeed!

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If you have came here from Chelsea's blog, 

 continue on hopping to:  

Noelene's at Berry Sweet Paper Patch. 

Blog Hop order:

Lori Whitlock

Traci Penrod

Brandi Adams

Ashley Cook

Cathy Harper

Chelsea Van Wyk

Sue Kment--you are here

Noelene Apap

To enter the giveaway and start at the beginning of the hop go to the Lori Whitlock Blog. You can enter here as well!

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 I hope you will hop along with us!

💕Sue Kment

  

2021 Graduation Card

  I made several of these fun Graduation cards, each personalized with the graduates name. Fun!! 

It was a fast and easy card to make using a Silhouette file designed by Lori Whitlock. I comes with it's own envelope which I chose to embellish with an extra grad hat along with the names.  Perfect size to pop in a gift card or a bit of cash. (The pinwheel is just a little extra wood project I'm working on and not part of the cut file.)

File:

Graduation Year Shaped Card (includes the years 2021-2023) designed by Lori Whitlock

Graduation Card-My Scrap Chick

 


 My Scrap Chick

Happy Graduation! It is that time of year-all the pomp is just around the corner.

For my card today-I used parts of three different
My Scrap Chick files.

School Paper Easel Card

Smart Chick

Graduation Cap Card

I used the card base from the School paper easel card as well as the ruler and A+ elements.  I did resize the card base (and the added elements) so that my Smart Chick would fit nicely.  I think my card was enlarged to about 4x6.    I actually had my fun little Smart Chick made up already, so I tailored the card base to fit her. That's a little backwards, but hey-it worked!

I added a mortarboard cap on Ms. Little Smart Chick. Instead of making the Grad Cap file in to a card, I resized it to fit my smart chick and used only one side of the hat base and added it flat to the front of the card and then added the triangle part on pop dots.   

I am sharing with the following challenges:
Alphabet Challenge Blog-F is For Feathered Friends
Crafting with Friends #44-ATG
Cut It Up #122-Fun Folds 5/31
Simply Papercrafting #47-ATG
Moving Along with the Times #46-Graduation 6/6
Always Fun Challenge 38-Graduation 6/2
Crafting From the Heart #161-ATG 6/3
Dream Valley Challenge #157-More than one fold 6/9
Pile It On Challenge #130-Animal or Spring 6/3

I do hope you have enjoyed my projects today.  

You can find these files and more at 

My Scrap Chick !!!

                                  

Graduation cards for Camy

My sweet grand niece Camy is graduating tonight-the Class of 2016!  

Since I am the resident family card maker...I made several cards  so her Grandpa, and Great Granny and Gramps could each send one as well.

I made my own shaker card by designing two rectangles that I matted together and adding the Grads Throwing Caps (Sarah Bailey) silhouette cut file inside. Super fun...

I used this four step card designed by Lori Whitlock and Graduate Girl by Snapdragon Snippets.  The sentiment and numbers were generated in Silhouette. On the front of this card I added her name in the same pretty gold paper I used on the inside.

 For this card is used a file designed by Lori Whitlock-A2 box card:Graduation. I also added her initials on several frames as well  and the happy graduate file Graduation by Studio Ilustrado.

 Well there you go! My Graduation cards for 2016!

I am sharing these on Silhouette Challenges blog.

Thanks for stopping in today!

♥ Sue 

Graduation-it's the little things...

I made this graduation card for a nephew who will be finishing his senior year soon!  I kept the colors muted...boys like it that way LOL!  I used the Elizabeth Craft Accordian die cut with the matching flourish edges-easy, elegant and  very pretty!

I absolutely love this stamp set from Stampers Anonymous-it has so many wonderful sentiments. (you'll be seeing another one from this set this week).

I assembled the card and added the Jumping Grad with pop dots (cut with my Silhouette), the sentiment, and decorated  the backside of the card too. I left one oval blank to add a handwritten note.

Lucky for me, his school colors are black and red! Worked out perfectly!!!

Back of the card-just as pretty as the front!

The challenge at Inspiration Journal Blog May Challenge  is Celebration...you still have this week to join in with any creation that celebrates ...and you could win $50 to spend at the Inspiration Emporium online store! Very cool indeed! 

I do hope you can join in our May challenge-see you there!

♥ Sue

I am entering in the following challenges!

Whimsy Stamps-use 2 or more dies
Flat Friend Challenge #20-Dies or Punches
Crafititude-Use a Die
Simply Create Too-Fathers Day(or for a male)
Wags and Whiskers-For the Boys
Paper Crafting Journey-For the Special Man




card details:
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product from Inspiration Emporium
(receive a 10% by using code suestamps13)

Accordian Oval Card-Elizabeth Craft Designs
Oval Flourish Frame Edges-Elizabeth Craft Designs
Good Thoughts-Stampers Anonymous by Tim Holtz

Cardstock: Kraft and Black, Vanilla, Red

Silhouette cut files:
Jumping Grad-male-Snap Dragon Snippets
Graduation Cap (I changed it to 2014)

Graduation Cards 2013

 Boy Grad

Girl Grad

Graduation card time!  I found this really awesome Graduation card HERE at Sabriolet Designs that I totally loved and had to case as close as I could. She had some gorgeous DCWV paper and hers is more 'classy' than mine-but I chose school colors so mine turned out pretty bright...what's new right? LOL

For my friends/family that just purchased their Silhouette, I am going to show you how I made this.

Cut out numbers (2.105 x 1.415-font is  Bernard MT Condensed)

Boy Grad is 3.5 inches tall

(To make shadows-chose the icon that looks like a bullseye at the bottom of the screen or the 6th icon from the right in DE-you can choose Offset or Internal Offset )

 Make an offset shadow (.075)of the red numbers (2013) and then nudge the shadows together with your arrow keys (select a shape and then hit an arrow key to slighty nudge any shape)
Remember to pull you original number or shape back off the mat
Weld the 2013 shadows together
Make another copy of the shadow
Make an offset shadow (.075)of the Grad-pull the original grad off the mat
Weld the Grad shadow to the second 2013 shadow

Make a red shadow (.075) of numbers and Grad

Make a black offset shadow of the Red set (.25)

Make a second copy of the black shadow-pull one of the mat for later

Make a yellow inset shadow of the black piece for the inside of the card (.50)

Here you can see that yellow inset shadow added inside the card. 

To make the card base select the black shadow piece, go to 

Object, Transformation, Mirror Options, and finally Mirror above. Slick huh?

You will need to nudge the two pieces to over lap each other slightly and then weld them together.

Here you can see the top layers I just made (all except the card base) I separated each of these layers by pop dots

Add to your card base. This is a pretty big card (7.5 x 4.25)  

Now this looks like it would take forever, but it was quick and easy! The hardest part was figuring out the colors of the layers and keeping them all straight. 

There you go Melissa, Linda and Ann!

♥ Sue

Mothers and Grads Blog Hop---Creations by AR

Welcome to the April Creations by AR Mothers and Grads Blog Hop everyone!

Today we are going to show off this lovely Birdhouse Topiary.

 Isn't it fun?  

This template is a little more detailed than the normal template, but the extra few minutes it takes to put it together is so worth it!  It opens in to a little surprise gift box on the bottom stand part! Pretty sneaky! LOL! I used  the new Stackables templates that Adela just came out to layer my sentiment as well.

And look at this fun Grad Cap box!

This Grad Hat box is just the right size for a small gifty like a favorite candy or  a special piece of jewelry or even  a few buckeroonies.  (FYI-the template does not come with the numbers) This box is going to my nephew who is graduating with his law degree next month! I know he is anxious to get on with "real life"!

You can start your blog hoppin' here-(and be sure to welcome our Guest Designer Shirley!):

Adela Rossol:   http://cbyar.blogspot.com/

Amy Park:   http://tethered2home.com/ 

Lisa Somerville:   http://www.lisasomerville.com/

Magdalena Cortez:   http://axesdesigns.blogspot.com/

Mandy Gill:   http://littlespaceofmyown.blogspot.com/

Patti J. Gilliam: http://www.cherisheachpreciousday.blogspot.com/

Sue Kment:   http://suesstampingstuff.blogspot.com/

Guest Designer:

Shirley Hotop:  http://glitteredpaws.blogspot.com

TWO  winners will be chosen per blog. Each winner will receive ONE of the new templates

Yep-I get to pick TWO winners, so don't forget to leave a comment by Thursday evening, April 26th, to be entered!

Thanks for stopping by everyone!

Details:
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#1
Birdhouse Topiary Template-Creations by AR
Stackables templates for sentiment-Creations by AR
Stamp: Sentiment is Friends from SU! set
Cardstock: Lifes Stories by My Minds Eye
Misc: Leaf die from SU!, ribbon from SU!, misc tea dyed lace

#2
Grad Hat Box Template-Creations by AR
Cardstock: Black Bazzill and misc glitter gold paper
Misc: Embroidery floss tassel, antiquey type brad

Class of 2011 Flip Flop Mini Album

I have finally unglued my fingers from each other and put on the finishing touches of this mini I made. Wish I had bought a couple more of these flip flops as I now know of several others I would like to make one for. 

This is what it looks like untied...made in accordian style. I have sure learned a lot of things I would NOT do next time. I would not use crystal effects to glue the chipboard  to the flip flop...maybe E6000 or even a hot glue gun...my goodness, do not let me loose with liquid glue...I am messy, messy, messy. I would make the pages in a different order as well. Next time I will know!

The front/top pages.

I used Katelyn's actual graduation announcement and picture for my embellishments. (only because I had two sets of them)  On these pages I used:

Circle and square Nesties, Scalloped circle and square nesties
Stampin Up Flower die....cute die!
Ali Edwards Technique Tuesday journaling stamps
Freebie Graduation SVG's cut with my Cricut/Scal-you can find them HERE!
SU! cording and ribbon
Martha border punch
Misc. charm and pearls, brads and buttons
Me & My Big Ideas Blk & Wht   papers, SU! Saffron, Brilliant Blue and Saffron DP

This is the flip side of the mini album. Lots of places for pictures and journaling.

Okay...Whew...I am done!