Graduation - The Gypsy Spot Design Team Card

Designed by Jeannie Phillips - Southside, AL

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This is my The Gypsy Spot Design Team card for this week.... our mission was to use black and gold... the paper I chose for this project dictated its simplicity... I was really happy with how it turned out... it is for a young man that I use to work with... a very sweet, good, kind young man that I just love to death... so it needed to be masculine... and those are hard to do!!... hope that you like it!!...I hope that he does too.

Be sure and check out The Gypsy Spot and see the wonderful things the other design team members have come up with!!  Thanks for looking... Hugs Jeannie

GYPSY HINT

When you are stacking shapes like I did in this card, behind the graduation cap, get the shape you want... make it the size you want for the largest piece... then duplicate that shape... click the button that makes, a shape smaller, 2 times... repeat this process for each piece until you have as many stacks as you want.

This will give you perfect intervals between shapes.

CRICUT & GYPSY

George

Squares cut @ sm. w 2.64 x h 2.46, md. w 3.06 x w 2.86 and lg. w 3.33 x 3.11 ...on the Cricut I would cut these at 2 1/2. 2 3/4 and 3 inches.

Locker Talk

Caps and the tassel layer cut @ w 3.15 x h 2.0...I cut two ..on the top layer I trimmed the bottom part of the cap off..and popped the square part from that piece...I trimmed the tassel  from the piece with the bottom left on... on the Cricut I would cut these at 2 inches.

Smaller Cap on inside of card  cut @ w 2.15 x h 1.37 I used a gold gel pen for the tassel  ... on the Cricut I would cut this @ 1 1/4 inches.

Wild Card

"Congratulations" cut @ w 3.12 x h 5.14... on the Cricut I would cut this @ 1 1/4 inches on real dial size.

Todd's Graduation Card

Designed by Jeannie Phillips

Southside, Al A decade ago I made two really wonderful friends Lannie and Todd.... I needed a break from life and stayed with them for almost a week.... they were wonderful and will always be so special to me.... they are forever a part of my heart!!!... Todd went back to school to get yet another degree and Lannie asked me to make him a card for her.... it had to be special because they are both so special to me... I hope that they love it.... Thanks for looking... ~~Jeannie

CRICUT

Accent Essentials

Frame cut @ 2 1/2 inches on shadow twice.

Solid Frame cut from transparency @ 2 1/2 inches 1 time.

Locker Talk

Graduation Cap cut @ 1 1/2 inches (I think).

Opposites Attract

"Todd" cut @ 1 inch on the upright feature.

Square frame on the bottom hand-cut with cutter and I used a ticket punch on the corners.

Lots of brown waterbased dye ink.

I pop dotted the bottom frame 2 pop dots thick from the base of the card... then the frame with the transparency and graduation cap was pop dotted two pop dots thick from the bottom frame.

Congratulations Cory

This is a card I made for my soon to be Son-in-Law... he is graduating form Jacksonville State University Friday night with a degree in Criminal Justice... we are very proud for him... I made the card with the books because he loves books so much.... its so important to me that he loves this card... wish me luck... ~~Jeannie

CRICUT

Locker Talk

Books cut @ 3 3/4 inches,

once on shadow blackout.. once on regular feature and once on layer feature.

I pop dotted the adhered the top two layers together and pop dotted them form the shadow layer... and added the book lines with a sharpie...lots of ink for ageing.

Cap cut @ 1 1/2 inches

twice on shadow blackout feature.

I trimmed the tassel away on both layers and the bottom of the cap away from the top layer.

I pop dotted the top of the cap from the bottom layer.... added a handmade tassel with a brad.

Alphalicious

"Congrat ulations" cut at 3 inches.

Jasmine

Corners cut at 2 1/2 inches

on real dial size and with the shadow feature.

Stitching with off white thread...lots of inking and some doodling.

side

close up

Inside

Mad's Grad Card

This is for my daughter, Madison who graduates from Jacksonville State University on 8.8.08...with a 4.o in Accounting... We are so proud of her... she liked that the date was 8.8.08 so that had to be included... and she loves penguins...so that added a little fun to the card... this was such a labor of love...but I have been a month with ideas floating around in my head...today I came up with this at work... I so hope she loves it... the colors and all seemed to call for a more crisp look... it was hard not to add ink...I hope it was the right choice...~~Jeannie

CRICUT

Street Signs

8.8.08 cut @ 3/4 inches

Locker Talk

Cap cut @ 1 inch

Beyond Birthdays

Congrats cut 4 times @ 1 1/2 inches

Zooballoos

Penguins cut @ 4 inches and 3 1/2 inches

The rectangles and squares were all cut with my cutter.