Graduation Week - Frame #2

YAY!!  Another frame project! :)  I know, I am hooked!  This time it is for a friend at work's son.  He is going to Ball State and he plays guitar.  His major will be music.  I don't know his son at all so it was a bit hard to decide what to do for him...but I really like how this turned out!  After finding the greyhound using my SCAL program I did the same with the Ball State Cardinal.  This time I only did two pics and left the middle open for him to put his own picture in. 

 Cut the guitar from Hanna Montana cartridge. 

Pretty cute! 

TTFN,

Tammy

Graduation week - gift bag/tag

This was so fun to make!  The bird was cut using my gypsy from 3 Birds on Parade adn I just made it the colors of Ball State University and decorated her up a bit.

:) 
Fun and easy...can't get better than that!

Tammy

Graduation Week - Frame

YAY!   I love it when a project turns out!  After doing that baby shower frame I was hooked on frames and wanted to do more.  Mike's friend's daughter is going to the Universisity of Indianapolis on a track scholarshp so I put SCAL and my gypsy into action.  The more I use SCAL the more I love it!  I was able to find a pic online of the UofI mascot (a greyhound) and I was able to easlity able to separate the layers and viola... I got just what I wanted!  I put that in the middle and some track designs on Either side.  She does long jump and I thought the gal from All Sports looks like she is doing that when you don't include the hurde that she is intended to be jumping over.  Turned out really cute I think!  :)
Don't mean to toot my own horn, but Toot! Toot!  LOL! :)

Thanks for looking!
Enjoy and TTFN,
Tammy

Graduation Week - Gift

 Hi All,
My BBFF (Best Blogging Friend Forever), Christy often will do a 'week of' something.  Shes's done tons of stuff and not only do I enjoy each day I also look forward to the next post!  So I'm gonna be a copy cat and do a week (may not be a daily post) of GRADUATION.  Now this may be a bit late for this year - I'm not sure, but hopefully you can find something fun to do next year.  I've posted some cards etc already, but I feel like this year I've done more for graduations than I ever have. 
This is a fun project.  Mike's best friend's daughter graduated from HS and I thought I wanted to make something unique for her.  While I was shopping at JoAnne's for a frames I found these letters for $1 off....making them $2.99 instead of $3.99.  This was super easy and cheap!  I just took vinyl in the colors of the college she is attending and cut circles out with my circle punches.  Then I cut some for the edges and went at it.  It looks cute by itself but I thought I should put something on it to hang it.  Thinking she may want to put it in her dorm room.   What better than zebra print! :)

I really like how it looks together.  I was able to use ribbon I already had on hand.  So this gift was a grand total of $2.99 plus tax.  Not too shabby!!
Hope she likes it...if not my daughter (Kaity) said she'll take it! :)

Enjoy today,

Tammy

Graduation Gift Card (or cash) Holder

Wahoo!  I love making cards but I seem to be so busy lately.  Ugh.  I am happy to have so much going on but there is a part of me that would like to just have time to myself for a bit. I guess that is not in the plans right now and I am trying to change my attitude to realize that one day (oh, too soon!) my kids won't need me as much and I'll have too much time on my hands.  So until then, I will continue to craft when I get a chance and be grateful! :) 
I love to look on Pinterest and that is where I got the inspiration for this card....I bought this Mo's digital stamp last year around this time and am so glad that I did.  She looks so happy and really captures the feelings of a new grad!  I made this card into a gift card holder and then ran out of time to get a gift card so instead I just put in cold, hard cash.  I don't think she minded that at all.  :)

Enjoy your day!
Tammy

Graduation Gift bag

Hi All,

I know I have been posting a lot of graduation stuff, but guess what??  That's because I've been working on a lot of graduation stuff!  I like this bird cartridge and this grad bird kinda cracks me up a little.  I thought I'd give it to one person whom I ended up just giving cash to - not enough time to do everything I'd like to do!  SO now I have a head start for next year!  Lol!  Hope I have a girl to give it to (because of the white) and thre is the small detail that I already wrote Ball State on the cap....  Oh well, I'm sure it will find good use in due time!
Enjoy your day!
Tammy

Grad Gift Bag

Hi crafty people!!  I am having a lot of fun getting ready for graduation parties!  I wanted to decorate the gift bag and thought this would be cute.  I found the cuts using my gypsy (LOVE that thing!) and voila!  I think it turned out pretty cute.  I will blog the gift later this month, but thought I'd go ahead and show off the bag.  I used regular twine to wrap around the diploma and it was white so I colored it with a marker.  I know I have baker's twine, but I couldn't find it last night and didn't have much time to look for it.  I tell ya, I really need to redo my room and organize it a lot better.  Big dreams - we'll see!

Enjoy today!
Tammy

 

Oh, I used my Marth Stewart scissors to cut the tassle.  It has 5 blades and makes cutting things like that really easy!  one cut!!

YAY! Graduation Time!

Tis the season for Graduation!  What a great, exciting time and this year I have been blessed with more graduation open house invites than ever!!  I will post some gifts that I made, but this one, is a cash holder.  Nothing is better sometimes than cold, hard, cash! :)  It could also hold gift cards too, but I preferred to give cash to spend where ever she'd like. 
Enjoy!!!

Tammy