It’s time for the SUO Challenge and we are celebrating “Congratulations”…could be any type of congratulations, including graduations! Since my son will be graduating with his Masters from The Ohio State University in a couple weeks, I decided to use this challenge to make his graduation card…we are SO proud of him! Holding down a FULL time job (with travel and extra hours), an almost 3-year old at home who is busy, busy…it was not easy over the past 18 months. His wife, Beth, has certainly picked up the slack!
Adam is a “simple” type of guy, so I didn’t go overboard with embellishments or extras on his card. Just used the OSU colors of Scarlet and Gray and the Sunburst Framelit…with a little bit of Silver Glimmer Paper bling.
- The base is 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Smoky Slate, folded in half.
- The Sunburst Framelit was cut from Real Red cardstock and layered over a 4 x 5-1/4 piece of Smoky Slate, with the extra ends cut off. It was placed on the base card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Congratulations, Grad from Stampin’ Up!’s B.Y.O.P. stamp set was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink on Whisper White and colored with the Real Red Stampin’ Write Marker, then punched with a 2″ Circle Punch.
- It is layered on a 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle punched from Silver Glimmer Paper, then popped up on the Sunburst with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Yep…that’s it! But Adam definitely doesn’t like a lot of fru-fru, so it’s perfect for him and personalized with OSU colors. This card would also be perfect if you had to mass produce a bunch of them…wouldn’t take long at all!
Make sure to check out the rest of the SUO Challenge Design Team to see what they did with the Congratulations theme!
Paxton is our newest baby and his mom said he really didn't have any theme for his room (probably because he is the 4th child!) His dad plays professional baseball, and the family loves Ohio State, we also have a cousin who plays baseball for Ohio State, so I made Paxton's Build A Bear into a baseball uniform!
I started with a $3 black frame from Walmart. You can still get them there! The inside measures 5 x 12. I used the Pawsitively Prints Designer Paper for the background. It is layered on Real Red, but you can't see it in the photo. The BAB is Creamy Caramel with Chocolate Chip behind his eyes, nose and mouth. The shirt, hat and stripes on his baseball pants are Real Red. The shirt cuffs, pants, O letter and #1 are cut from Going Gray cardstock. I added some black baseball shoes and belt, too. I cut the letters in Real Red and Going Gray with Stampin' Up!'s Alphabet Simple Letters (LOVE those dies!) and punched the small stars from Real Red cardstock.