School colors

Graduation season is officially here. When you are creating graduation cards do you try to use school colors on your card? That’s just one way I try to personalize my cards a little bit.

Here is a list of the school colors I’ve used when creating cards.

Blue & Gold
Orange & Black
Purple & Gold
Purple & White
Green & Gold
Green & White
Black & Gold
Blue & Silver

What about you? What school colors would you use?

Picture of 3 stamp sets: Cap & Gown, Around It All, & Mixed Florals and Shy Shamrock Classic Stampin' Pad. Also card created using those supplies--Thick white card base. Layers of dark blue and shamrock green. Bottom half of card front is bright green patterned paper with tear drop shapes in a variety of greens. White half circle is on left side of page with green graduation cap on top and sentiment, "It's a Big Day" Bundle of flowers with coneflower heat embossed in white on green paper.

Card Details

Do you like line art stamps but want to add color and don’t really like coloring? Stamp the outline on colored paper. You could also try stamping in colored ink on white paper and then drawing color in from the outline using a Blender Pen. I want to help turn your crafting stress into success..

Of course, if you do love coloring, these stamps are created so you can add color with whatever medium you prefer: markers, colored pencils, crayons, watercolors, paint, etc.

Or you could stamp the black outline on white paper and leave them for the recipient to color if they so choose. You could create an entire coloring book using line art stamps.

This card needed a green graduation cap. So, it is stamped in black on green paper and then cut out. The flowers were stamped in Versamark on a different shade of green paper and then heat embossed using white embossing powder.

White inside of card. Green circle with white word stamped in the center of the card saying "Congrats." Stamped hands with green graduation gown stamped at bottom of page and looks like they are throwing green graduation cap up into the air. It is stamped at the top of the page.

On the inside of the card, I did stamp in colored ink on white paper for the sentiment. But, I did use a Stampin’ Write marker to color in the graduation cap & gown.

There are lots of different ways to add color to your card for personalization. Just find the method that works best for you.

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