I am making cards for twins who are graduating from high school. I chose to make the girl’s card in her college colors and her brother’s in their high school colors. Unfortunately the video clips for the red and black card were corrupted, so I can’t show how to make it, but I will tell you what I did. I took a beige and red napkin and removed the top layer and glued it to an 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ card base scored on the 8 1/2″ length at 4 1/4″ to make an A2 sized card. I used a glue stick to adhere the top piece of napkin to it. Here’s a video showing you how to separate a napkin from its backing and how to glue it to paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_Ph32J2dQ To separate a napkin from its backing, put a piece of washi tape on the back edge of the napkin leaving some tape hanging off the edge for you to grab. Grab the tape and gently pull it away and it should pull the backing of the napkin off with it. There are sometimes two extra layers and if they don’t both pull off with the washi tape, put another piece of washi on the back corner and gently remove it from the napkin, taking the extra paper with it. I used a Simon Says Stamp CZ Design Stamps and Dies called Grad Party for the sentiment and the graduation caps I die cut out of black cardstock. I used black grosgrain 1/2″ wide ribbon and put double sided tear tape on the back of it and adhered three lines of it in between the red lines of color. (His high school colors are red and black). I put some foam squares behind the graduation caps and glued them in the polka dot portion of the napkin and stamped a sentiment from the same stamp and die set on off-white cardstock then die cut it with an oval die from my stash. The blue and white card is a 5 x 7″ card base with a blue floral napkin glued to it with a glue stick. Here’s a video showing you how to attach a napkin to paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_Ph32J2dQ I attached the napkin to the front of the card base and cut the excess off the edges then die cut a circle near the top of the card in the center. I had a plastic piece of packaging that I thought would be fun for a shaker card and it had some white paper on the edges I couldn’t remove…so I used some artist tape from Blick.com link: https://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-artist-tape/?Color=Black& and surrounded the outer edge of the circle with it so when you see the edges of the plastic shaker, it looks more professionally done. I added tear tape to the top of the shaker component and then filled it with thin long blue beads and little white circular beads I had in my stash. I added another piece of card stock to the right inside of the card because my die cutting machine added a circular impression from the die, so I wanted to cover that mark. I also cut another 4 7/8″ by 7″ card stock and covered it with the same napkin. I covered the entire inside of the card with tear tape then glued the right side blank piece into the card. I inserted the shaker component and then added hot glue over the outer edges to ensure it would be well adhered to the paper I’m adding. I took the 4 7/8″ x 7″ napkin covered cardstock and gently laid it in place making sure the hot glue was well adhered to the center, then turned the card over to press the paper firmly in place. I used Hero Arts Congrats stamp and die set link: https://tinyurl.com/vnrxy7nu and die cut three “Congrats” from blue cardstock then glued them together. I took a Globleland die set (if you buy this set and use the code Sandy10, you’ll get 10% off…I’m not affiliated with them, but this set is a good one and fairly inexpensive) link: https://globleland.com/products/cutting-dies-diy-wh0309-778?s=sandy10 I used one of the smaller dies and cut it in off white and blue and snipped the blue on the diagonal so I could layer it behind the off white one and have the blue still show. I glued them together and adhered them to the bottom section of the front of the card and added some blue pearl flat back embellishments from my stash. I stamped with a dark blue ink a sentiment from the same Hero Arts Congrats set on the inside of the card.

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