Penn Cut Out Photo Card

(inside: Congratulations!)

A friend was being honored with the University of Pennsylvania’s “Alumni Award of Merit” for demonstrating outstanding service to the university.  I wanted to make a congratulatory card and came up with this design using a photo I had taken of Penn’s College Hall behind cut out letters.  The inside had plenty of room for a handwritten note.

I cut the letters with my Silhouette electronic die cutting machine from Core’dinations Bright White textured card stock and mounted it on Gina K Charcoal Brown, more of the textured white, and a heavy weight white 5 x 7 inch card base.  I chose this photo for behind the letters because it had gorgeous fall foliage for a pop of color and showed a bit of the Ben Franklin statue that any Penn alumnus would recognize!

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Congratulations, Eagle Scout!

(inside:  You did it!)

One of the things I love about card making is being able to customize a card to fit any occasion, situation, or subject.  My friend’s son was being honored for the well-deserved achievement of becoming an Eagle Scout, and I was invited to his Court of Honor.  I needed a card to fit the occasion but saw nothing in my travels that was made just for congratulating scouts.  It was great to be able to come up with something that worked, and I had a lot of fun making it!

I started with the digital paper/image from Ladybird Press called “Boy Scout Oath Print” that I purchased on Etsy.  At my request, the shop owner was nice enough to also send me the blank wood-grained background file (without the words) that I used for my greeting panel.  Thanks, Carlee!!

I used Gina K Dark Chocolate and Sandy Beach card stock for the card base and mats.

I purchased the Eagle Scout sticker on ebay, but the colors did not match those on the background that well, so I scanned and printed the sticker image on a piece of vellum, cut it out, and glued it to a piece of Gina K Sandy Beach card stock.  The color of the card stock through the vellum made the whites of the original sticker more of an off-white and dulled the reds and blues to be closer to the background.  I cut a frame with dies from the Spellbinders Classic Ovals (large and small) sets out of the Dark Chocolate and adhered it on top of the vellum to hide the glue dots that were visible around the edges.

The greeting stamp originally said, “Congratulations, You did it!” (unknown brand).  I cut the stamp apart and used the “You did it!” half on the inside of the card.  Both were stamped with Gina K Dark Chocolate ink.

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Black and White Daisy Note Card

This simple note card features the “Watercolor Daisy” stamp from Hampton Art.  When I originally purchased it, I intended to add color to the image, but I really liked how it looked in black and white so I “threw together” a quick black and white note card.  (I’ll try it with color next time!)

The image was stamped with Gina K Black Onyx ink on white card stock.  A Teresa Collings Enamal Dot was added to the center. The background panel was embossed with a Cuttlebug “Swiss Dots” embossing folder.  Black mats and a piece of black and white ribbon (by Offray) finished it off.

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