The Sky is the Limit!

Hello friends! I have several graduation cards to finish and this is the first. I used Papertrey Ink's set Up, up and away to say to some great graduates that they can achieve their dreams! We were at a graduation party for a lovely neighborhood girl last night. The variety of guests was a reminder that it really does 'take a village'. At such a young age her life has touched so many others! For her, the sky really is the limit and we wish her well. Funny thing, it doesn't seem all that long ago that I was finishing highschool and headed off the college! However, it was quite a long time ago-36 years to be exact!! Wow!
I wouldn't trade where I am now to be 17 again, would you? It sure was an exciting time though!
Anyway, you didn't come to hear (read) my babblings! I used a nestability shape in Bashful Blue to "frame" my sky scene. The clouds were cut with a PTI die and then stamped with soft sky. Then the edges were sponged with Baja Breeze. My balloons were also cut with PTI dies and then stamped and colored with copics in the following colors:
R08, R17 and R29
YG01, 13 and 07
Y04 and Yo8
B02, 04, ans 06
E30 and E35
stickles were added to areas of the balloons.
Instead of a ribbon I used my Scor-buddy to score 3 lines across the striped paper from MME
and also stitched that layer.

It's raining yet again despite the forecasts for today's weater! Hope the sun is shining on you!!
Cheryl

The Graduate!

Good morning! I apologize for being so long between posts! Just busy with end of the school year stuff. Here is Edwin the graduate from my friend, Diana!

Here's the site you can shop on:

Magnolia-licious If you like Edwin stamps just put "Edwin" in the search box and you'll see what Diana has available. If you don't see what you want just email and ask her about it!

Well I colored Edwin with my copic markers:

E000 and E01 for the skin with E93, my new favorite for glowing cheeks!

His robe is C1, 3, 5 and 9 (all the cs I have!)

The black and gray dp is from Basic Grey-can't remember the collection, but it's the one with the oranges with gray and black. I combined it with my solid red in Pure Poppy from PTI.

This card is for a 5 year old who graduates from kindergarten today! He's the son of the aide with whom I work (and my very dear friend!). Now Eileen is my age (well, 7 months older! and I'm 51 for another month! She had Collin at 47 years old! She is wonder woman, I tell ya! We have worked together in a Special Education class for 15 years! We joke that we've lasted longer than most marriages! She and I won't be working together next year (thanks to administrators who think they know everything!) and it's like losing my right arm and getting divorced all at once. With luck, we will still be in the same building.

Okay, enough of my wandering! Congratulations to my little friend, Collin, the graduate!

Hope you have a day to celebrate!

Cheryl