Graduation cards!

 It’s graduation time around here, so I used the Taylored Expressions create in quads stencils to create these cards. I chose a couple different color combinations for schools in our area. I love how fast these are to create, though they are definitely a workout with all the ink blending! It was fun to also added the special extra touches to embellish them too.





On the red and green ones, I added gold lunar paste for one of the layers. On the purple I added silver ink for that stencil layer. I tried using a shimmer stencil butter in black on the blue ones, but that product dried so quickly, it was a nightmare! And it flaked off the card fronts when I cut them apart.

I used the crepe paper die from The Greetery, as well as Congrats die from them. The other congrats dies are from Spellbinders and Pinkfresh Studio.
Taylored Expressions Create-in-quads hooray layering stencil
The Greetery crepe paper banners
 
Spellbinder
 smooth lines sentiment dies
The Greetery Congrats die


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