graduation thank yous...

Wow!! Here we are at the end of May!!  School is almost out and graduation ceremonies are taking place everywhere.  My oldest is graduating from my alma mater, Stadium High School, and I couldn't be more excited!  He is pretty excited to be graduating too... especially since that means he won't have to get up so early, lol!!  (Click here if you want to see a photo of Stadium and read a little about the history of one of the coolest high schools in the United States!)   My cards today use the new Bold Thank You die, as well as the Mini Graduation Cap die.

Stadium's school colors are blue and gold so I pulled out some blue cardstock and a brushed gold cardstock and die cut the bold thank you from each .  I placed the gold thank you behind the blue and offset it slightly.  It looks really cool in real life.  The cap was die cut from the brushed gold.   Originally I was going to just adhere the sentiment to plain white cardstock, but decided to go with white woodgrain.  I think it looks pretty cool.  The little cap was adhered at an angle so it looks like it is being tossed in the air.  The woodgrain panels were die cut with a plain Rectangle Backdrop die and then the gold using a Stitched Dot Rectangle die.  I have two done and many more to go, lol!  I'm going to add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

A Jillian Vance Design products used:

Mini Grad Cap

Rectangle Backdrop

Stitched Dot Rectangles

Bold Thank You

Have a wonderful day!!

Rosemary
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Well With My Soul and Blessed Bookmarks

Hello everyone... Helen is here. Today I have a couple of bookmarks for friends. They are very easy to make with the Minnie Pearl Bookmark Die Set.

A Jillian Vance Designs also has gorgeous bookmark stamp sets that fit perfectly on the bookmarks. On one of the bookmark, I used the Well with My Soul Bookmark stamp set and I watercolored them with watercolor marker and distress ink pads. On the second bookmark, I added the Blessed {DIE}alogue Word Die and Swirly Vine Die. 

I tie up some matching color twines on each of them to finish my project. Bookmarks are great gift idea for book-lovers :) I hope they inspire you today! Thank you so much for stopping by! Have fabulous day!

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Thanks a bunch

Hey y'all! Shelly, here.
Happy Friday!!

Today I'm sharing a fun thank you card with you. As many of you know my last few posts had fringe in them, though today I've changed things up some. :)

Too cute, yeah?!...I just love the new Petite Cactus Pair die!
I started with doing a little watercoloring on some watercolor paper and then once things were dry, I used the petite cactus die with it. After, I used some teal cardstock for my other cacti. Once having all my die cut pieces, I used some patterned paper for my background and then added my cacti one by one (for my pink cactus I added some foam tape on the back of it).

To finish my card off, I added my sentiment piece from the Showers of Blessings stamp set. Which I stamped on white cardstock and also added a touch of black cardstock peeking out from under my white sentiment strip. Simple, yeah?!...

AJVD products:

Petite Cactus Pair die set


Simply Said: Showers of Blessings


Other supplies used:

White cardstock
Black cardstock
Teal cardstock
Patterned paper
Watercolor paper
Watercolors
Black ink
Adhesive/Foam tape

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Enjoy your day!

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gem of a friend...

Happy Wednesday everyone!!  I'm here today with another sparkly gem stone card for you.   Last week I shared a card using the Faceted Heart die.  I had intended to use the Faceted Heart die along with the Dazzling Diamond die, but ended up just using the Faceted Heart die alone.   Since I had die cut the diamonds I wanted to use them and created this little card.

I die cut a second diamond from the silver glitter paper so that I would have four diamonds and then arranged then on a panel of white cardstock that I die cut with a Stitched Dot Rectangle die.  The sentiment from Diamond in the Rough was heat embossed in black on vellum cardstock and then die cut with the smallest die from the Art Deco Backdrop die set  I used clear glue dot placed behind the embossing to attach it to the diamonds.  Adhered the panel to a light gray cardstock base and I was one.  Going to add this to the current AAA Cards challenge as I used embossing for the sentiment.

A Jillian Vance Design products used:

Diamond in the Rough

 Dazzling Diamond dies

Art Deco Backdrop

Stitched Dot Rectangle

Have a wonderful day...

Rosemary

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Home Sweet Home Hoop Art Card

Hello everyone... Helen is here today... Spring flowers are still blooming even though the temperature is as warm as Summer here in the area where I live :)

A card I wanna share with you all today I created with some of my favorite stamp set and die sets from A Jillian Vance Design.

I use the Home Sweet Home stamp set together with the Hoop It Up Die Set, Pop Up Petals Die Set, and Swirly Vine Die. They are pretty together, aren't they?

They remind me of stitching and cross-stitching projects I used to make when I was at school. I am thinking to make another one and frame it to put it on the wall inside my craft room :)

I hope this project inspire you to create with joy and share the love through your handmade cards. Thank you so much for visiting me today and have a blessed day!

A Jillian Vance Design Products:

Hoop It Up Die Set

Home Sweet Home Stamp Set

Pop Up Petals Die Set

Swirly Vine Die

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