Our great niece, Ashtin, graduated from nursing school in December and is now an RN in an Intensive Care Unit, and we could not be more proud of her. We were able to spend an evening catching up with her on our way through Virginia to North Carolina to meet Finn, our newest great nephew.

Ashtin is an amazing woman and I wanted her card to be all about her. I found the scrub dies on Aliexpress, link: https://tinyurl.com/mtyw2uza

Start with a cardstock cut to 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ wide scored on the 8 1/2″ length at 4 1/4″ to make an A2 sized card base. I used a pink cardstock. Put the large scrub piece onto the front of the card base, making sure the top of the die is about 1/16th of an inch below the top of the card, so when it cuts, there is still enough paper to create a fold for the card. You could also just cut the scrub out of a scrap of cardstock and glue it onto a card base, but I wanted my scrub to be the entire card. I cut all of the rest of the die pieces out of the same pink cardstock and then cut the stethoscope cord from black cardstock and the heart shaped end of the stethoscope out of silver mirror cardstock. You could have cut everything from the same color cardstock and then using alcohol markers, color the different pieces to whatever color you chose (except anything that needs to be from mirrored paper, like the stethoscope)..

After cutting all of the pieces, I took a pink alcohol marker that was darker than the cardstock pink, and colored what would be the ends of the sleeves, the bottom of the scrubs, the V neck and the pockets so they all stood out from the back ground. I used sentiment stamps from Simon Says Stamp called Hats Off, link: https://tinyurl.com/yufvp2zy and used Gina K Amalgam Black Ink to stamp on the inside of the card graduation praise words. I glued all of the pieces together and then decided I wanted to personalize the scrubs, so used an alphabet set I got from Michaels in the bins at the front of the store that are red rubber and create small letters. I stamped her initials on the breast pocket, then found some Thickers in my stash that were white link: https://tinyurl.com/y39e3ptk and glued an R and an N to the bottom pockets. I didn’t like how pale they appeared, so using a black alcohol marker (Sharpie) colored them black.

This is a simple card to make, but given to a nurse or doctor, it’s so personalized, Ashtin really loved it.

At the end of the video, I shared the diamond painting I made for Finn as his room is a galaxy theme and the diamond painting turned out great with a professional frame I found at a garage sale for $3. I loved it and hope you do too.

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