graduation celebration card
What a whirlwind of a month June has been. Moving my mom out of the family estate into a quaint retirement village, wrapping up school (here in NJ our last day was yesterday) and all the teacher gifts that event entails, and my house projects here have consumed immense time.
It was Graduation Day for many friends and family as well, which leads me to today's project.
I was involved with paper quilling years ago, and used a quilling accessory, called a Fringer, for today's graduation card.
I fed a thin strip of black cardstock into the Fringer, then sliced the cardstock at even intervals by depressing the lever repeatedly.
The fringed cardstock was wound and glued around a section of black linen thread. A 1/16" hole was punched into the center of a Black Inchie Square.
The black linen thread holding the fringed cardstock was inserted through the hole in the Inchie Square, followed by a black brad. I trimmed the black linen thread flush with the base of the tassel.
Onto another Black Inchie Square, I drew a quick branch with a chocolate Copic Spica pen. Cute puffy owl stickers are from a Borders Book Store.
A Cranberry cardstock scallop square was mounted with foam tape onto a 4-3/4" square Licorice card base. Two White Inchie Squares were stamped with Papertrey Ink sentiments. Oh and I used a mini glue dot to hold the tassel in place.
ingredients: Memory Box cardstocks (Licorice, Cranberry used); Ranger Archival Ink pad; Inchie squares and products; complete line of Nestabilities dies and all related accessories; Copic markers and all related accessories including airbrush equipment and glitter pens used for today's project - Ellen Hutson; brads, linen thread - StarLitStudio
Quilling and Fringers are all greek to me, but this card ROCKS!
Posted by: Valerie | June 20, 2009 at 07:06 PM
Cindy, this card is adorable! I've never done quilling, but that is wonderful way to make the little tassle!!
Posted by: KathyN | June 20, 2009 at 07:58 PM
Brilliant! Who would have ever thought to use a black Inchie Square as a mortarboard for graduation!!
Posted by: Lisa Lee | June 20, 2009 at 08:48 PM
You are just too clever!! Now I need to go dig out the fringer from my old quilling days!
Posted by: Maureen W. | June 20, 2009 at 11:42 PM
You ROCK my stamping world.....always a pleasure to see what you create.
Posted by: Beverly | June 21, 2009 at 12:14 PM
spectacularly awesome!!! I love the way you find the perfect touch for every project you create.
Posted by: Sue | June 21, 2009 at 09:28 PM