Create Graduation Cards With Your Scrapbook Supplies
Good news…scrapbooking supplies aren’t just for your scrapbooks anymore. We die-hard scrapbookers joke about how much we spend on our scrapping goodies, but think of all the ways we can use them. Yes we use our scrap supplies for layouts but we can also create beautiful home decor pieces, we can lovingly borrow them to our children for school projects, and we can also make our own greeting cards.
This seems to be the “year of the graduate”. Kids of six friends and family members are graduating this year. I finally sat down today and planned out my graduation cards. When I have a clump of birthdays, anniversaries, or holidays coming up that I need to send cards out for I create one design that I can quickly duplicate.
For today’s project I gathered scrap pieces of paper, stamps and paint, and a few embellishments. I jotted a quick design, which ended up changing a bit (not unusual for me).
My first step was to stamp out GRAD using paint and foam stamps. I then printed out “con” and “ulations” on the computer…get it…conGRADulations. I know, not so very clever, but I try. I cut out the GRAD letters separately in angular slices and then outlined each with black pen. To tie in the paint stamped letters I painted around the edges of my scrap papers which were then adhered to the front of the card.
Finally I gathered all of the pieces and put my cards together “assembly line” style. This is a quick process with happy results.
The final result…
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