Graduation Hat Card

Graduation Hat Card



Materials -

Basic Black Card Stock - 4 1/4 x 9 3/4

Real Red Grosgrain ribbon, 1/4 inch wide - 8 inches (Can also use embroidery floss)

Whisper White Card Stock - 4 x 5 1/4,  2 3/4 inch square

Real Red card stock - 3 inch square

Brad

Supplies -

Paper Trimmer and Scorere

Paper piercer and mat

Stamp sets (I used Teeny Tiny Wishes and Heard from the Heart)

1/16 inch circle hole punch



Score the black rectangle at 5 1/2 inches.

 Fold on score line.  Slide under the paper scorer ruler with the fold at 2 1/8 inches.

 Make small score marks along each edge of the card stock - DO NOT SCORE ACROSS THE CARD STOCK.  These marks are just to 'measure' for work you will do later. Flip the card stock over, keeping the fold at the 2 1/8 inch mark and score small marks on this side as well.

 Open the card stock and place the narrow edge of the shorter section under the ruler and score a small mark at 2 1/8 inches.

 Line up the top mark on one side and the bottom edge on the other side and score to connect those two points.

 Repeat with the other side.

 This should give you an X that crosses at the 5 1/2 inch fold line.

 Line up the top mark on one side with the center mark on the narrow edge and trim away the corner.  Repeat with the other side.

 You card stock should look like this, with a point at the top (Sorry I cut the point off in this photo but you can see it below).

 When all folded you the 'hat' should lay over the base but not completely to the bottom edge of the base.

 Take the white rectangle and using a pencil mark one short edge at center (2 inches) .  Mark 2 inches down both sides.

 Line up the side mark with the center mark and trip the corner.  Repeat for the other corner.
If you would like to make a slit to insert a gift card or cash, go down to the bottom of the blog to see how.

 This will lay inside the bottom of the card.  Stamp your sentiment along the bottom, then adhere inside the card.

Take the grosgrain ribbon and fold in half.  Tie a knot close to the fold.   You want to leave a little tab to attach it to the hat.

 Trim along the very edge of one tail of the ribbon.  Cut of the trim near the knot.

 Unravel the fibers but pulling them away from the untrimmed side.  Do a few at a time or they may get 'frizzy'.

 When you have pulled all the fibers you will have this 'skeleton' left.  Trim that off near the know.

 Repeat with the other tail - and you have your tassel.   You may need to smooth it out some.  If it is full of static, dampen it a little with your fingers or rub it with a used dryer sheet.

 Lay the tassel tab at the approximate center of the hat section. Pierce through the tassel and hat.  You may need to take the piercing tool and twist it around in the tassel only to get a hole big enough to get the brad through.

 Attach the tassel with the brad. 

 Layer the white square on the red square and put inside the hat to cover the bottom of the brad. Decorate as desired.

 Here is the card closed.   It does not stay closed but does work in an envelope.  I you would like to make a slit to insert a gift card or cash - follow these steps before attaching the lower inside white piece.

 Make a centered slit in the white card stock.  I used the metric side of the ruler and cut between 23 and 29.

 Using the 1/16 inch hole punch, make a hole at each end of the slit.

 When adhering this to the inside of the card put adhesive only around the edges of the card stock below the slit.  DO NOT PUT ADHESIVE UNDER THE SLIT OF THE CENTER OF THE CARD STOCK.   I put adhesive above the slit just to keep it anchored.

And there you have it!  Thanks to Brenda for suggesting that and showing me the hole punch trick.

The card can be customized to school colors - you don't have to make it black and red :-)

Gift Card Holders

A quick little idea for those holiday gift cards.

Start with a piece of card stock 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Score and fold into a tri-fold. I did two variations but unfortunately did not get photos of each step. Hope you can figure it all out - if not, just shoot me an email and I will clarify.
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Ornament card holder Use Real Red card stock and score at 2 1/2 inches and 5 1/2 inches. Fold so the shorter section is inside the other two sections. Decorate the outside using the Platinum shimmer paint and the 'snowflake' stamp from the Delighful Decorations stamp set.

Cut a piece of silver card stock 2 1/2 x 4 inches and trim the corners with the Ticket Corner punch.

Take a piece of ribbon about 20 inches long and adhere to the center of the silver -leaving a much longer tail on one end than the other (You can wrap the ribbon around the scored card stock folded to get an idea of how long you will need and where to position it - leave plenty of ribbon to be able to tie a bow). The ribbon is adhered to the BACK of the silver card stock.
Turn the silver card stock over and adhere to the front of the gift card holder.



Decorate the front - Cut a piece of Whisper White card stock 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 and trim the corners with the Ticket Punch. Stamp an ornament from the Delightful Decorations using Garden Green in the left upper portion. Stamp an ornament using Real Red on a scrap of Whisper White and punch with the Ornament Punch. Adhere in the lower right portion using dimensionals.



For the inside cut a piece of Garden Green 2 3/4 x 4 1/4. Make slits using the Slit Punch (retired) or an exacto knife. (I had to play with this a little to get the slits right where I wanted them - not sure how you can measure that but mine were a little more than 1/4 inch from the edge.)

Adhere the Garden Green to the inside center of the card being careful to not get adhesive on the slit areas.
Insert gift card, fold and tie a bow!

Merry Christmas Gift Card Holder
For this one I used More Mustard and scored it at 2 1/2 inches from either end.
I used a piece of Garden Green 2 inches x 4 inches on the front.


I stamped the Merry Christmas from the Christmas Greetings set using Real Red on a piece of Whisper White cut 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 and after trimming it with the Ticket Punch, sponged on Garden Green.

I did not put a piece inside but just punched my slits into the More Mustard.