Grad Party Decorations

Well, it's finally over. Katie's graduation and the party. I couldn't be happier. Now I can return to all of the other things I need to do.

I was mostly in charge of decorations for the party. This is what I came up with...

Flowers using my i-Top to make the centers. I used my i-rock to put "KT" on this one. KTO wouldn't fit.

Ray-Pec colors are black and gold..so that's the theme here. I glued all the flowers into glass flower pots and we filled them with black white and gold M&Ms. Yum.

The panther logo.

We also payed tribute to the college Katie is going to in the fall...UCM.

She's going to be a Marching Mule, so we'll have to go to a few college football games to see her.

I didn't make the cake..but it was tasty.

The glitter paper was really hard to use for the brads. But it looked so good...many of them are glued together...anything to make it work.


What's that? You always wanted your face on a brad in the center of a flower?

That's what I thought.

The party was a success, I think everyone had a lot of fun. I have tons of pictures, but I will spare you the details.

We will now return to our regularly scheduled programming. I have a birthday card in the wings, one I'm getting ready to make, and a baby shower card in the works.
This Sunday is Oliver's big test...yeah, the Canine Good Citizen test. We've been working very hard to make sure we pass...but I'm not sure. At any rate he will graduate from Advanced Training on Sunday whether or not we pass the CGC test. We can take it as many times as we need to pass...I think he'll be very close, but it's all or nothing..no 90% or anything!
I think I also promised yard photos...man I've got a lot to do.

Jessica

Black and Gold Grad Invites

I hope everyone had a good Easter. And is going to have a good weekend. I'm definitely looking forward to it.

So I've been told these have gone out in the mail...and that means I can put them up here.
So I have a card for you.

Well actually they're graduation invites for my little sister's grad party. When I agreed to make them I didn't realize they would need 40...and actually she just put in a request for 5 more. I wish she wasn't so popular. Or that we didn't have a giant family.

The white paper is hand stamped using a set called Circle Circus. I love this set. Each one of the invites is just slightly different, this isn't Hallmark after all.

The Ray-Pec colors are black and gold. The gold is pretty much right on, and of course it is a discontinued color called Crushed Curry. They happened to have extra ink pad and ink fillers and paper and ribbon in the clearance section of Stampin Up, so I bought it like a crazy person..I didn't want to run out. So now I have 3 1/2 packs of paper and 3 spools of ribbon...left over...after all the cards are done.

This was the part that took the longest. It's one stamp, but I had to stamp it twice. Once for the bottom that I cut out with my scalloped circle punch. And once so I could just punch out the middle. I also punched a slightly larger circle in the Crushed Curry. The top is popped up with a couple of dimensionals. I sprayed each card with a little bit of Glimmer Mist, so they have just a hint of sparkle.

I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. She seemed to like them, so I count that as a win. I'm mostly excited that it will be at least 4 years until I might have to do it again for her college graduation.

I'm working on a few grad card, but I'm finding that craft time is a bit hard to come by. Zumba is definitely interfering...but I like it too much. My job I like less, so maybe I'll give that up....haha I wish.

Jessica