Hello everyone!  June is right around the corner and that means it’s time

for graduation!  Today I made a project using the Hats Off Stamp Set

This is a great set for graduation cards.  There are so many possibilities

with it!  Let me show you how I made my card!

My card is a 5″ x 7″ card so I covered the base of my card with some

metallic gold card stock.  Next I die cut a 5″ x 7″ panel with a fancy

rectangle die using a velvet paper.  I adhered this velvet paper to the

base I created…more on that in a bit.

I heat embossed, in gold, the smaller of the 2 sizes of graduation cap in the set.

I also stamped out my sentiment and cut it into a strip that would be able to

go across my next background piece.

Using a dark blue marker – in my case a B99 Copic – I did some very

basic shading on the caps.  Once that was done I fussy cut them.  I stamped

6 of them but only used 5.

I cut my sentiment to size and edged the 2 long sides with some white peel-offs

that were edged in gold.  I die cut another panel, this time from some white and

gold paper with the same nesting dies I used on the velvet piece.  It was at this

point that I noticed the velvet paper did not want to stick properly on the gold

card stock.  So, I die cut a piece of the blue paper that I used for the hats and

the sentiment, die cut it with the biggest die and adhered it to the base.

I adhered the white and gold piece to the base with foam tape.  I adhered the

sentiment with foam tape across the middle.  I adhered the hats – 2 were

adhered flat and 3 were popped up on foam tape.  I added shimmer pen to

the word “grad” and on the hats as well.  I added tiny metallic stars to the

background and my card was done!

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s tutorial!  Make this card for your grad

today!  

Supplies used:

Gold Metallic Card Stock

Navy Card Stock

Gold and White Paper

Gold Embossing Powder

Foam Tape

White peel-offs edged with Gold

B99 Copic Marker

Tiny Stars

Nested Fancy Rectangle Dies

Til next time…

Betsy