Tuesday, June 8, 2010

EMMA'S GRADUATION!


Next year Emma, our oldest grand daughter, will be going to Kindergarten. Her years at the Christian Day Care have been wonderful years or growing, learning and becoming the person God wants her to be. Her class was called the "Butterflies" for obvious reasons. They even sang a song about a caterpillar who spins its cocoon and then turns into a butterfly. The program was precious and the teachers have fallen in love with their students. It was very touching and I am glad we were able to attend and watch the ceremony of their names being called, going up on the stage, and getting their certificate and receiving gifts. They were given a DVD with a slide show of over 350 photos of the year. I was told by one of the teachers that I am on the slide show where they show some of the grand parents who attended Grand Parents Day. They each had a scrap book with some of their papers, and pictures, and a few journal pages where the teachers wrote their comments down. And a couple of books to read.

I made Emma a special graduation card. All the store cards were made for older grads and were not suitable. I used my Precious Moments Birthday cake girl stamp. She is carrying a little cake with candles. I used tape to mask the cake, inked the stamp, and removed the tape, and stamped it. I did this six times., two of them I forgot to remove the tape and had a little blob of ink where the cake was. Grrr! Those things happen, right? But I was able to use the heads only of those for layering. I drew a small mortar board cap using the head as a guide for the fit. I also drew a rolled up graduation certificate. I cut out the sleeve of her dress and the hand and got it ready to layer that too. I colored her skirt a blue/lavender shade, used my Copic gray to add shadows to the folds of the apron, and the shadows of the sleeves. So after coloring the bottom image, I layered her sleeve and head with the grad cap. The graduation cap was colored purple, with a tiny purple brad on top. I wanted a tassel and so took lavender sewing thread and dyed it a little darker with a Stampin Up marker. IT WORKED! I doubled the length and wrapped it around under the brad head twice. Next I started tying knots close together until it was long enough to fall over the edge of the top of the cap. I then cut it off about 1 1/2" long and used the cut off part to wrap twice around where the knots stopped, and tied in such away to secure the end and the tails were cut off to make the tassel. The ends were kind of squirrely, so I used some glue on them to hold them together. But it is a handmade miniature tassel and I'm "bustin" my buttons over that one.

I used a purple print paper for the background (all the purple items look blue in the photo but DH took the picture and his camera didn't get the colors right for some reason.) from a little pad of papers from Provo Craft called "itty Scrap Pads backgrounds"bought at Michaels some time ago. I don't think they sell it still but it is called French Country Colors. My matting is two Bazzil pink shades: Strawberry Splash which was smooth and the second was Watermelon Sensation which had a little bumpy texture. And I added two pink tulle folded bands across the matted background before I put the image on. My grand daughters favorite colors are pink and purple and I often use those colors for their cards. Thanks for letting me share.

1 comment:

Beryl said...

I am soooo impressed with this one Martha. Not only for customising the stamp you have used but also for drawing the mortar board and the scorll. They really look as if they are part of the original satmp - and the tassel is genious. It's brilliant.
Beryl xx