Priscilla's Papercrafts: 2025

Friday, June 20, 2025

Gate Fold Grad Card

I have mentioned that I had two granddaughters graduating this month, one from high school (see my last post) and the other from college. Today I'll show you the card I made for the college grad:

Izzie graduated from California State University at San Marcos. The school colors are royal blue and white. So I pulled some Blueberry Bushel card stock and went to town.

This is a gate-fold card; I started with a 5-1/2"x 8-1/2" piece of cardstock (Thick Basic White) and scored it at 2-1/8" from either end. This gave me a standard-sized card that opens in the middle. I wanted it to look like her gown.

Izzie wore a white collar (it actually had the word "management" on one side, which I free-handed later on the card), so after adding textured Blueberry Bushel strips to the two front sides, I adhered the white "collar". This held the card closed, as the white circle slipped under each side.

To make the cap, I simply cut a small square of Basic Black, placed it as a "diamond" and added a tassel cut from one of the Birthday Celebrations dies.

The numbers were also cut with the Birthday Celebration dies using White cardstock on Foam Adhesive Sheets.

I used some old retired dies for the inside.

And once I thought I was done, I looked at a photo and realized she was wearing a lai, so I added one:

Sending congratulations and best wishes to Izzie as she awaits a call from a job interview...it even has benefits! 😊

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Blueberry Bushel 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146968]

$14.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

[159229]

$17.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166780]

$14.00

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[121045]

$14.00

Fresh Freesia 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[155613]

$14.00

Lemon Lolly 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[161720]

$14.00

Melon Mambo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[115320]

$14.00

Strawberry Slush 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[165625]

$14.00

Pretty In Pink 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[163793]

$14.00

Birthday Celebration Dies

[164598]

$27.00

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$30.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.25

Foam Adhesive Sheets

[152815]

$8.25

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Graduation Day

One of my granddaughters just graduated from high school, and now I can share the card I CASED for her. Unfortunately I never took note of the demo who created the original card, so I can't tell you who it was, but she made a great card:

The school colors for Sophie were Teal, Black and White. I dug out a piece of Tahitian Tide (a retired In Color from the last two years) and paired it with a little silver foil for extra oomph!

The Birthday Celebrations dies were the perfect way to create the banner/tassels and the numbers, which were mounted to a Stylish Shapes banner that was cut in half.

The Wanted to Say dies cut the "celebrate" and the stars, for which I used Silver Foil. It looks great against the black!

Congratulations, Sophie! We look forward to seeing your successes in college!

Product List

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166780]

$14.00

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[121045]

$14.00

Tahitian Tide 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[159261]

$10.00

Silver Foil Sheets

[132178]

$5.00

Birthday Celebration Dies

[164598]

$27.00

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$30.00

Wanted To Say Dies

[161594]

$39.00

Adhesive Sheets

[152334]

$11.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.25

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Poppin' By Birthday

I had such a fun time stamping this birthday card:

I love the Poppin' By bundle (stamps and dies) that create little popcorn-themed images. And I thought my grandson, Declan, who turns 9 tomorrow, would love it too.

The stamps are on the small side; in order to create a full-size card, I wanted to add a "loud" background. I reached for the Stripes and Dots stamp set - it looks like one large, background stamp but you can separate it into four long stamps so you can add individual striped or dotted backgrounds if you don't want to use them together. And I did just that--pulled them apart and used the wide stripe at the top and bottom (in Real Red) and the narrow, parallel lines in Tuxedo Black.

Now that greeting took a little extra effort. It's one image and the words are close together. But I really wanted to use the "filmstrip" die to highlight the words, so I inked each word individually with a Black Stampin' Write marker, stamped it on a strip of Basic White cardstock and cut the word. Then I cleaned the stamp and inked up the next word, repeating the process until I had the greeting completed.

The popcorn bucket and little popped "corns" were stamped and cut with the dies, and once placed on the card front I stamped "pop" in some of the blank areas. (Wouldn't this card make a cute Father's Day card?)

And inside: a fun pun (because who doesn't love a good pun?):

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