Saturday, July 11, 2009

a graduation card...sort of.

My sweet mom was kind enough to water our grass when we were in Florida a few weeks ago. When we got back I had a note on my desk requesting some graduation cards. Unfortunately, she won't be able to use these until next year, but I started working on some tonight.

When I sat down to get started, I realized I don't have any graduation stamps, so I had to improvise. Most of the kids that we attend graduation go to Wilson Central so they used their colors. Here's what I came up with:
Stamps: Damask, Life
Paper: Almost Navy, So Saffron
Ink: White Craft, Yellow Colorbox


And here's a funny story. So I get flowers from my mom pretty frequently. A few weeks ago a dug up some of her baby hydrangea bushes. I planted both. One is alive, but not growing that fast. The other that I planned took off. I was so excited. Then one day I really took a good luck at it, and I realized it's not a hydrangea bush. Somehow my mom had a tiny little Sunflower growing under her bush. No wonder it took off! It grows so fast. Here is now:

3 comments:

Winter said...

Nice graduation card! I love the damask stamp and how you popped some up off the card!

Karen said...

I'm loving the colors you used for the grad card!!! I don't think I've used Not Quite Navy and So Saffron together....yet....thanks for the inspiration! Thanks for sharing your sunflower pic...I haven't seen one in the early stages before and its neat to see!

~kelly marie~ said...

Love that graduation card! Such a nice sentiment!

It will be so exciting when your sunflower blooms! I love sunflowers!