Congratulations

My granddaughter Audrey is graduating high school this month and while I’m shocked at how quickly the time has flown, I’m not too rattled to make her a card to mark the occasion . . .

 

I originally did the mortarboard and text in black but felt it overpowered the light colors I had chosen for the rest of the card front.  So I switched to a burnished orange-gold to match the warm colors in the frame.  Much better – but it took three days of wrestling with various color combos to figure that out.  Sigh . . . sometimes, things just take awhile longer than expected . . .

Cardstock:   Bazzill Kachina, Parakeet, Scraps: Patterned Papers  

Stamps:       Impression Obsession Congratulations, Art Impressions

Mortarboard

Inks:             VersaMark

Emb Pwdr:   B’Muse Metallic Marmalade

Dies:            DieNamics Pierced Rectangle Frame, Mama Elephant

Botanic Envelopes Set (foliage)             

Doo Dads:    Tassel, Turquoise brad