Welcome to the Real World Graduation Card by Tasha!

 Happy Friday Ai Fans!

Tasha here with a colorful graduation card created with the Ai 5277-Graduation Set! 

To begin, I stamped the happy elephant grad with black ink and colored it with Copic Markers. This image could be used for any age and the elephant looks so happy holding his diploma!

After I was done coloring the elephant, I cut the image out and started to create the background. I was inspired by the Earth image and made a cool sky design with stencils. I love the mix of clouds & sun rays in the background and the yellow gives a glowing look to the design.

The sentiment "Welcome to the Real World" was stamped in a teal color and coordinates with the blue colors used throughout the card. I also added a pretty blue glitter paper to frame the greeting and center card; the sparkle looks fantastic when the light shines on it!

Lastly, I added layers of pattern paper and black cardstock before attaching the card to a white 6"x6" card base. I hope you enjoyed today's project and are inspired to create a graduation card with the Art Impressions Graduation Set!

Have a great day!

Happy Day Graduate by Bri Firth

Hello Ai Fans - Bri here! It's graduation party season so today, I am sharing two cards featuring the Graduation Set. This card is featured on my personal blog today, check it out here! 

 

Project 1 

For the first card I stamped the elephant image and and the "Look Out World!" sentiment with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. I colored the elephant and globe image with my Copic markers. I die cut the front panel with the Rectangle Double Stitched Dies. I matted the front panel with black cardstock. To create the background I first heat embossed the graduation cap images with white embossing powder. Next, I ink blended the background with Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, and Broken China Distress Oxide inks. To finish the card I added black sequins for embellishment.

   

Project 2 

For the second card I stamped the giraffe image and and the sentiments with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. I colored the giraffe and bird image with my Copic markers. I die cut the front panel with the Rectangle Double Stitched Dies. I matted the front panel with black cardstock. To create the background I ink blended with Black Soot Disress ink and the retired Spotted stencil from Kindred Stamps on kraft cardstock.

 

Check back next week for more Ai inspiration made by me!

  Ai Products Used 

Graduation Set

Rectangle Double Stitched Dies

Coloring Guide 

Y: Y000, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17, Y26 

YG: YG01, YG21, YG23, YG25 

B: B000, B00, B02, B05, B07 

RV: RV13, RV11 

E: E31, E33, E35, E37, E43, E42, E41, E40 

W: W00, W1, W3, W5 C: C7, C5, C3, C1

Hats off to you! -by Crystal

Hi Ai fans! I played with Graduation stamp set this week. I had a idea for a card which is a first I normally just stamp and start coloring then ideas come to me. I never plan a card ahead of time. 

I thought the hats would look cool as a big cluster of hats. I stamped them multiple times on the top of  a 5 1/2" X 4 1/4" stitched die cut rectangle. I colored the hats in with different colors. I stamped the sentiment "Hats off to you!" 

I stamped the owl below the sentiment and colored him in. I adhered the whole panel to a 5 1/2" X 4 1/4" card base. This was a super simple one layered card but I was happy with the end result. 

Happy Stamping!

Cool Hat Bro | By Jessica Shier

Hello Ai Fans!

Welcome back to the blog. It's Jessica here today and I have a cute graduation card to share with you. I know we are living in a world of uncertainty but hopefully there is an end in sight and those that will graduate will still be able to, however that may look. Let's make certain to bring some cheer to those moments when we can.

I'm using the super cute Graduation set. I love all the fun animals, of course, but this giraffe is just adorable! I stamped the giraffe and his little bird friend on to a piece of Accent Opaque white card stock with Gina K. Amalgam ink. I did use Copic markers to color this one in so I'll have the list of those down below. This is another great example of the shading examples that are available on the Art Impressions packaging. I follow that and love how it turned out.

After coloring in the Giraffe image I stamped it again really quick on to a piece of Inkadinkado masking paper. You can find this masking paper in the Ai shop! I fussy cut my masked image out and placed it over the first one. I did stamp and cut the whole image. I will be using that as a mask for the ground and sun in blending too. 

In the Graduation set there is a really cool stamp that is a bunch of graduation hats. I stamped that image over the top so that it looked like the hats were falling behind the Giraffe. Before coloring the hats in I used a strip of masking paper and used it as a mask for the ground. I added some shading with some light brown inks and also ink blended the sun with a stencil. Then removed the masks and colored in the hats. After that I stamped the sentiment and die cut my panel with a Rectangle Double Stitch die. 

The Giraffe set is part of the New Release sale!

Now through March 29th 2020. 

I focused my colors on blue and yellow, which I think is a pretty popular color for graduations. Mine were orange and black though lol. I like how you can color these to fit any school colors. Alright that is it from me!

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Happy Stamping!