{"id":85,"date":"2012-06-28T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2012-06-28T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T21:22:08","slug":"inchie-graduation-cards-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.elizabethtaylorstudio.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Inchie Graduation Cards and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had four graduations to celebrate recently. Two from high school and two from college. I decided to create cards for them that had similar basic elements. All of the cards included small tags cut with a Sizzix<\/a> die and stamped with “inchie” images. Inchies are 1″ by 1″ images and there are some great stamp sets available from Inkadinkadoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"My niece Jenny graduated from Glen Burnie High School and will be attending the University of Maryland, studying architecture. I used paper with a blueprint design for the background. The silk leaves were stamped with a large script stamp using Stazon ink.<\/p>\n

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\"\" Our neighbor’s daughter, Maggie, graduated from Temple University. Maggie’s major was music, so that’s the design for the background. I also used stamped leaves on her card.<\/p>\n

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\"\" My nephews also graduated, Kyle from Lindbergh high school,<\/p>\n

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\"\" and Craig from Harvey Mudd College.<\/p>\n

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Mother’s Day and Father’s Day were also recent celebrations.<\/p>\n

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Mom’s card was made using silk flowers and leaves that I stamped on.\u00a0 The flower centers were orange buttons from my stash, stamped with a flower image.<\/p>\n

I made the hummingbirds by punching the shapes out of aluminum from soda cans, then coloring them with Ranger’s alcohol inks<\/a>. I used a Fiskar’s punch<\/a> – I love how easily they cut through the metal.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a close up of the hummingbirds. I wanted them to look like they were flying, so I used a bit of silver colored beading wire and coiled it around a pencil.\u00a0 I attached the wire to the back of the birds with a glue dot and used another to attach the other end of the wire under the border.<\/p>\n

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Dad’s card for Father’s day this year fell upon a familiar theme for cards I make for my dad. Frogs just somehow show up in them. The letters are from Tim Holtz’s grungeboard alphabet<\/a>, colored with distress inks.\u00a0 The dragonflys are stamped with Ranger’s distress inks<\/a> onto scraps of handmade paper, then cut out and mounted with tiny bits of foam.<\/p>\n

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Hope you enjoy looking at these as much as I enjoyed making them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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