CASology: Congratulations

This week’s challenge at CASology is perfectly timed for high school graduations. Today is the graduation ceremony for Brighton High School (our local school), and I needed to make a card for one of the graduates. Brighton’s colors are navy and gold so that determined the color combination. I originally bought Papertrey Ink’s “Retro Style Graduation” because I wanted some of the stamps for the addition set, “Retro Style Birthday,” but I was grateful to have the set for this card which came together pretty quickly.

Everything except the numbers came from the stamps and dies for “Retro Style Graduation.” Stamping the die cuts is so much easier now that I have figured out the best way to use my MISTI. Papertrey Ink’s die are usually solid dies so they can be a bit more challenging (to me, anyway) to place correctly on the stamped image. The MISTI solves it perfectly. The numbers were all die cut twice from the Headline Alphabet in navy (WPlus9) and twice in Summer Sunrise and then layered to create a shadow effect. 

Brighton’s graduation ceremony used to be held at the Eastman Theater, quite an elegant setting. Now it’s at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s field house, which I don’t think I’d like as much.

I’m linking to CASology’s challenge for Congratulations.