I started with a piece of 110 pound cream Recollections card stock and cut it and 10″ high by 7″ wide and scored it on the 10″ length at 5″. I cut a piece of orange lightweight cardstock to 5 7/8″ x 6 7/8″ and layered it onto the cream card. I cut thin royal blue cardstock 4 1/2″ square and layered another identical piece on top of it and glued them together with a Glue Glider Pro tape runner. I poked a hole in the center of the blue paper and made a tassel with orange embroidery thread using a bow jig. Take a piece of string 3″ long and tape it to the length of a dowel on one end of the bow jig. Then place another dowel the length you’d like your tassel to be. Wrap embroidery thread around the dowels until you like the thickness then wrap the thread around the thread about 1/2″ from the top dowel that has the tape on it. Wrap the thread as many times as necessary to produce the desired width of thread, then tie a knot and cut the ends so you can’t see them. Then remove the tape from the end and tie the thread around the top and make a knot. Then remove the whole piece from the dowels and cut the bottom so the threads are separated and trim to make it all the same length. I stamped “Happy Graduation” from Hero Arts set called Celebrate Everyday. I used Ballet Blue Dye Ink from Stampin’ Up (and thought I was using the pigment version of the ink instead) and Ranger clear embossing powder on the ink. You should use either a pigment ink or Versamark if you are heat embossing, which I am. I heat set it and it came out ok but the embossing powder did not stick well because of the ink mistake.. Then I used fun foam under the graduation cap and put a matching brad through the hole in the center and attached the tassel with the brad to the cap.

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