Graduation or Congratulations Challenge!

Holy smokes it's the middle of May already!  Time sure does fly when you're having fun.  We've been super busy here doing some re-arranging at home, trying out some new activities and meeting lots of new people!  On May 5th, National Scrapbooking Day, I taught my very first workshop at our LSS Dat's Scrapbooking.

It was a great time, and I am still so excited and honored to be part of the DAT'S Designing Diva's Team.  There is a new challenge on the 1st and 15th of each month, and we encourage everyone to participate, even if you don't live in our city.  It's about finding inspiration and learning from each other!

This time around our challenge is to make a Graduation or Congratulations card, and this is the perfect time of year to get a jump start on your Graduation cards.  Universities and Colleges will be having graduation ceremonies in a few short weeks and high schools will be graduation students shortly after that. 

All the supplies I used for my card can be found at DAT'S Scrapbooking.   I hope you enjoyed this card, I have another Graduation one to show you in a few days!

Stamps:  MFT More Essential Sentiments, A la Modes Grad Girl
Paper:  Coordinations Grey, Reminisce I Made It, White, Black
Ink:  Copic Markers
Accessories:  Queens & Co Pearls - Nightfall, Prima Flower Centres, Bazzil Paper Flowers - black, We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy fancy floss (bakers twine in referee)

Challenge #1 – Happy Scrappy Day!

Welcome to the DAT’S Designing Divas First Challenge & Blog Hop!

Our first challenge is to create a layout, card or altered item with a scrapbooking theme.

We hope you can share your project with us by Monday, April 30, 2012 at the DAT’S Designing Divas Blog.

If you have come to my blog from Lee-Ann’s blog, you are on the right track.

Congratulations! I am the eighth & final blog on the hop and my special word is “YOU”.

You have now collected all 8 words in order. To qualify for the prize, you must leave a comment on my post and continue back to the DAT’S Designing Divas Blog to post your 8 word sentence in the comment section by midnight on Monday, April 16, 2012. Good luck and I hope you enjoyed our Blog Hop!

My card was inspired by the bright sunshine and the wonderful colours that I'm seeing in stores these days.  All supplies for my card can be found at DAT'S Scrapbooking...even those brightly coloured flowers.  Don't they match perfectly?  That's because they were originally white paper flowers, and then I coloured them with my Copics to perfectly match my paper.  So quick and easy, and I just love the way they turned out.

Stamps: The Krafty Stamper from Kraftin' Kimmie

Paper:  CTMH Midnight Blue, Basic Grey Piccadilly
Ink:  Copic Markers, Memento Black

Accessories:  Spellbinders Classic Circle Small and Classic Scallop Large, Kaiser Craft Rhinestones, White Prima Paper Flowers, Sizzix Embossing Folder