Hooray for the Graduate!

Hello crafty friends! It is April and that means graduation season is upon us! 
My daughter Brooke is graduating this month with her Bachelors in Social Work and I couldn't be more proud!

I am up on the  Kat Scrappiness  blog today and I have a very bright and colorful card to share with you. What better way to celebrate a graduate than with a gorgeous rainbow to show them how bright their future will be?

 Kat Scrappiness has a fun rainbow die called After the Rain  and it cuts out 7 individual arcs for your rainbow. I chose to only use 6 arcs for my rainbow in the interest of space but you could add one more arc and use any color palette you like.  I made a similar card previously with a pastel color scheme and it came out lovely!

To start off with I took a sheet of white card stock and cut out a panel using the largest die from the Stitched Rectangle Dies and I stenciled on a beautiful cloud background for my rainbow. Once I was happy with how the clouds looked I began adding in my rainbow one arc at a time.

I wanted to add a couple of stitched clouds to my card so I used the Stitched Puffy Clouds and die cut 3 of the 4 different sizes to add around my card. I made sure to hang one cloud off the side of my card for a more organic look.

For the sentiment on my card I knew I wanted a big bold die cut in black and white so the Hooray with Shadow Die was the perfect addition. This die comes with 2 layers so you can cut out a shadow for your word and it was just what this card called for. I added a smaller sub-sentiment to make this a graduation card in black and white as well.

The only thing left to do was add some sparkle and shine so I reached for the 

Tear Shaped Water Droplets to decorate this pretty rainbow with. 

I also used the Embellishment Pick Up Tool and the Embellishment Sorting Tray to help me apply all of the clear droplets. These 2 tools make for such easy placement of embellishments and the embellishment tray is triangular which makes clean up a breeze. All those tiny droplets just fall back into the bag with ease because of the shape of the tray.

Here's one final peak at my card for today with all of the supplies used. I hope you'll check out all of the fun products in the  Kat Scrappiness store and make a rainbow card for that special someone who could use a happy colorful rainbow!

Also if you wanted do some crafty shopping in the next 2 days, there is an Easter Sale going on right now and you could save 15% off of all Easter and Spring products. Just use the code EASTER2021 at checkout!

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Have a great day, I already am!

🌈 🎓  Lisa  🌈 🎓 

Rainbow Card with Video

Welcome back to my blog crafty friends!

 Today I'm up on the Kat Scrappiness blog and I have a fun card to share

with you using the newest Stitched Cloud Backdrop Die from the April Release.

This die puts the cutest stitched clouds into your background 

without actually cutting them out.

I thought what better to go with clouds than a fun and colorful rainbow.

What do you do if you don't have a rainbow die?

Well you improvise, right...

I used the Double Stitched Circle Dies to make my bright rainbow

for this card and I added some fun clouds from the He Is Risen Dies . 

I used a sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Wavy Sayings stamp set

and stamped it onto one of the clouds in Versafine Black Onyx Ink.

I thought it would be cute to add some shiny rain drops to the card

so I used an old teardrop punch from my stash and punched out

5 raindrops to match my rainbow. I wanted to give them a shiny 

appearance so I added Gina K Crystalline Drops to each one of them.

I filmed a video to show you just how I made my rainbow from the 

Double Stitched Circle Dies and you can watch it here or on YouTube.

Thanks for stopping by today and as always you can use my code

LISA10 in the Kat Scrappiness store to save 10% on your order!

Have a great day, I already am!

🌈Lisa 🌈

SSS Wednesday Challenge

I made a really fun card tonight with a fun rainbow background and some embossed rain drops.  It looks like patterned paper so I'm entering it into this weeks SSS Wednesday challenge.  The challenge is to used store bought patterned paper in your project or make your own.  I used distress inks to blend a rainbow background and then I used the SSS raindrops stencil and some white embossing powder to give it a rainy day look.  The sun, clouds and sentiment are from My Creative Time.  I recently renovated my craft room and it's amazing what organizing your craft room does for your creativity!  Enjoy your weekend everyone, I think we are headed to the fair tomorrow.  I'm sure there is some fried dough with my name on it.😂

Here is my card for this week

🌦Lisa🌦