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Quick and Simple Graduation Cards

Hey friends! Britney here with a quick and simple cards featuring several Lawn Fawn products (Simply Celebrate Spring Stamp setCelebration Scripty Sentiments). We had a lot of graduated this year and this is a quick and simple way to “mass produce” multiple cards at once while still making them feel personalized based on the school they attended. 
If you’ve ever read any of my previous blog posts before, you know I like to start with my background first. It was really important to do so this time as two of the backgrounds needed time to dry. I tried to choose coordinating school colors for my graduates. 
I used the largest of the Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle Stackables for my large background colors, the middle size of the same die set for my middle background colors and the middle size of the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables for my white cardstock. For the two blue backgrounds, I used Altenew Classy Stripes Stencil to put down black Gina K Glitz Glitter Gel. I used a basic embossing folder to create the swirls on the red and green sheets.

I stamped the sentiment from Celebration Scripty Sentiments directly onto my center card base using Versafine Onyx Black Ink. I stamped my images with Gina K Amalgam Jet Black Ink and colored them with Copic Markers. I finished them off by adding some highlights with a white gel pen. I popped the Graduation Caps up using foam tape. I glued the two middle panels directly together and popped those up with foam tape and adhered them to the large base before adhering all of that directly to the card base.

I know these graduates really appreciated getting a custom card with their school colors. I hope you enjoyed this card as much as I enjoyed making it. Have a wonderful day!


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