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Class of 2021

It's graduation time and I have a fun and easy layout to share with you.  This layout features my daughter at her Senior awards ceremony.  Her high school colors are black and gold which matched perfectly with this year's graduation collection at Michaels.  


I started by layering strips of each of the washi tapes in the bottom right of the layout.  In the other corners of the layout, I used a stencil brush to add gold gelato through a star stencil.


I recently purchased a Heidi Swapp Minc machine and wanted to add some gold foiling to the layout.  Using the Minc machine, I created my own gold foiled diagonal striped patterned paper.  


I matte the photo with gold foil cardstock.  I placed a piece of the diagonal striped gold foil paper behind the left side of the photo.  The photo was glued on top of the washi tape.  I used foam tape to pop up the graduation hat ephemera piece across the top left of the photo.


I used my Cricut machine to cut the title and stars out of black gold foil cardstock.  I glued the title to the upper right of the page.  I glued the black and gold stars in the spaces between the gold stenciled stars.  I also added the large gold star from the ephemera pack to the star cluster on the left side of the layout.


I used the "Congrats Grad" ephemera piece and layered it with all the coordinating papers.  This was placed on top of the star cluster located in the upper left corner.


To finish the layout, I added strips of washi tape to the top and bottom of the layout.  I used a white gel pen to add a small amount of journaling on black cardstock below the photo.  This is the perfect layout to celebrate my daughter's hard work and all that she was able to accomplish in her high school career.

Class of 2021
Supplies:
  • Recollections Cardstock - White, Black, and Gold Foil Cardstock
  • Michaels Graduation Washi Tape and Sticker Pack
  • Simple Stories Birthday Blast 6x6 Stencil
  • Tim Holtz Distress Blending Brush
  • Faber-Castell Metallic Gelato - Gold Champagne
  • Heidi Swapp Minc Machine and Gold Foil
  • Momenta Number Dies
  • Cricut

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