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
