I made this graduation card for my niece, who soon is going to graduate from Brown University. She has a fabulous, high-powered starter\u00a0job waiting for her in NYC in the fall, and I know that while she is excited by all of the new opportunities and changes, she is also a bit nervous. With this card, I wanted to celebrate this season in her life and to encourage her as she enters this next, challenging phase of her life.<\/p>\n

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I am absolutely smitten with the Concord & 9th Sophisticated Script Stamp Set<\/a><\/span>! I may be overly enthusiastic because I have never liked my own handwriting, but WOW, I just love how with this stamp set anyone can create cards or paper crafting projects with beautiful script writing! I stamped the script fonts in two colors to highlight two messages: <\/a>“believe in yourself” and “be you.” I used Simon Says Stamp Rose Apple Premium Ink<\/a><\/span> to stamp out the “be” in believe and the “you” in yourself. The rest of the letters I stamped out in Versafine Onyx Black Pigment Ink.<\/p>\n

Then all around the edges of the card front, I used a beautiful Magnolia Floral Stamp Set from Cherrylana Designs<\/a><\/span> (a Ukrainian stamp\u00a0company). Magnolias are a striking flower because the magnolia blossoms are so large and they are associated with perseverance, dignity and femininity — all things that I associate with my niece as well as the South, which is where my niece grew up. I stamped a flower, created a mask with scrap paper and washi tape to mask off the edges of the flower, stamped a second adjacent and overlapping flower, created another mask to mask off the edges of this second flower, stamped a third flower, etcetera. As I was stamping around the card front, I found I could re-use the masks so I only needed to cut out 4 masks and re-position them as I went along.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t want to detract from the CAS single layer card design with too much color, so I simply used a 0.05 pt. Copic Multi-liner Pen<\/a><\/span> to just add hash lines to indicate shadows on the underside of petals and back petals. As a finishing touch and a little bit of sparkle, I added a dozen or so dots of\u00a0Nuvo Glitter Drops in White Blizzard<\/a><\/span> in varying sizes. I popped this card front onto a card base made from Stampin’ Up! Watermelon Wonder card stock (which seemed to perfectly match the Simon Says Stamp Rose Apple Premium Ink<\/a><\/span>!).<\/p>\n

This card is being entered into the following challenges:
\nSimon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nCASology Season Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nWord Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge<\/u><\/a>
\nWhere Creativity Meets C9 One Layer Challenge #8<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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