Stylin' Stampin' Squad Blog Hop: June 2012

Hello and welcome to this month's installment of the Stylin' Stampin' Squad Blog Hop.  If you came from Kim's Stampin' with Kim blog, thank you for visiting me!  This month's themes are New Catalog Sneaks, Father's Day and/or Graduation. I hope you'll like what I have for you.  And please, give my blogpost some love with your kind comments!

I decided to make a masculine card for graduation for this month's Hop.  This is a set called, Need for Speed.  It's perfect for guy cards.  The DSP is from Summer Smooches.  I used the Pennant punch to make my flag ends.  This tip is from Jennifer of NW Stamper.

Next, I made a box to house a set of cards.  The neat thing about how this box is made is the use of Window Sheet as a shim.  How?  Check out Connie Stewart's video HERE.  Simply ingenious.

My Supplies List (all supplies and images by Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):

Stamp Set(s): Need for Speed

Ink: Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turqoise, Real Red

Papers: Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turqoise, Real Red

Accessories: Labels Framelits, Pennant punch

Thanking for stopping by.  Please continue along the hop with us.  Your next stop is with Pam.

Blog Hop Participants:

1. Annie L. of Love Me Cards
2. Pam S. of Stampin' in the Sun!
3. Rose C. of Stamp with Rose
4. Tonya B. of Stampin' with Tonya
5. Dawn S. of Dawn's Creative Chalet
6. Patricia T. of Sunnyone Stampin'
7. Heather W. of Heather's Stampin' Blog
8. Linda O. of Stamp at Linda's
9. Darcy J. of DJ's Stampin' Place
10. Pam S. of Sunny Girl Scraps
11. Kim R. of Stamping with Kim

Graduation Direction

Now that graduation season is upon us, it is time to make some graduation cards.  I've been commissioned by one of our neighbors to make some graduation cards for the graduates of our local university.  The school colors are purple and gold.  When I came upon Kristy's card, I knew I just had to CASE it.

The purple here is Rich Razzleberry.  The gold is a non-SU paper that I had used when I graduated eons ago from the same university.  See, there IS a reason to hoard all s*craps. :)  I originally was going to use Daffodil Delight for the gold; but when I found enough of this paper left over, I just had to use it.  The paper has a shiny surface and has a bit of shimmer, which represents the "gold" well, I think.

Anyways, the stars are done using the Stars #2 Big Shot die.  Ack!  I can't believe this die is retiring!!!  Last year SU retired the star punch.  Now they're retiring the stars die.  I just hope there will be some star framelits coming out!  The banners are cut from Petal Cone die.  Oh, I did pop up the arrow portion of the image.

My Supplies List (all supplies and images by Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):

Stamp Set(s): Word Play

Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry (retired)

Papers: Rich Razzleberry, non-SU gold/yellow

Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Stars #2 BS die, Petal Cone die

Click HERE for the Retiring Stamp Sets

Click HERE for the Retiring Accessories

Click HERE for the Retiring Definitely Decorative

Graduation Owl

Well, wouldn't you guess, I need yet another graduation card!  Where did all these graduates come from???  LOL.  Anyways, this card is inspired by Lisa Young.  I loved her use of the scroll.  After I was done, I realized that she had done hers at an angle.  Oh well, not gonna change now.  I put glasses on the owl, because our graduate wears glasses.  The wings are just half of the scallop circle punch.  Nifty, eh? I wanted to use the color red because the recipient is going to a school that has red as a prominent school color.

My Supplies List (all supplies and images by Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):

Stamp Set(s): Happy Greetings

Ink: Real Red

Papers:  Real Red, Soft Suede, Elegant Soiree DSP

Accessories: Perfect Polka Dot embossing Folder, Two-Step Owl punch, Scallop Circle punch, Cr*cut

Graduation CAS

I need another graduation card... quick!  And it's for a male college grad.  Ack, masculine card!  This is what I made.

 Inside:

 The card is based on this sketch from Kendra.

I figured it needed to be more Clean & Simple, since it's for a boy guy (haha... I'm actually at the stage where I think college kids are still kids).  I thought this sketch was perfect for my needs.  I got to use my new Petite Pennant punch, so all was good.

My Supplies List (all supplies and images by Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):

Stamp Set(s): Happy Greetings, Word Play

Ink: Not Quite Navy

Papers:  Baja Breeze, Elegant Soiree DSP

Accessories: Petite Pennant punch, Bitty Punch Pack, Stampin' Write markers (Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy)

Graduation Time

I didn't think I knew many grads this year, so I didn't plan on having to make graduation cards.  But then, I started realizing how many people I know are graduating... started with 2, then grew to 4, then grew to 6, and so on.  Yikes.  I don't have any graduation specific stamps, but when I saw THIS card by Kath, I had to CASE it.

Ta da:

The school color for this one is Crimson and Gray.  I didn't use Stampin' Up! papers, because the colors were a little off.  I just used what I had from my pre-SU days.  I tried to use a paper trimmer to cut that graduation cap in sort of a diamond shape.  Just did not work out very well.  I ended up just hand drawing the shape on the back of the paper and cutting it out that way.  I've had the tassels for a long time, from when I did my own grad school announcements.  Had a few extras and was perfect for repurposing!

I think the best part of this card was the use of this particular Word Play stamp.  I think it's very appropriate for graduation.  The best part about the Word Play stamp set this month?  It's ON SALE!!!!  See THE FLYER for more info.  Catalog price is $28.95 for clear and $41.95 for wood.  But this month only, it's 30%!  The clear is now only $20.27 for clear and $29.37 for wood!  This is a really great set for sentiments.  Plus, you can color the words separately and get a really cool look.  Or you can choose to pop out certain portions of the stamp and make it more 3-dimensional.  You can get it at MY STORE.

Anyways, you can't tell from the picture, but I heat embossed the sentiment using clear embossing powder.

My Supplies List (all supplies and images by Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):

Stamp Set(s): Word Play

Ink: Red (non-SU)

Papers:  Red, Gray, Black (non-SU)

Accessories: Framed Tulips embossing folder, Black Brad (non-SU), Tassel, Clear embossing powder