Cheers!

The other day I had some extra time to kill on my lunch hour and a Hobby Lobby coupon burning a hole in my pocket...so I stopped in to see if there was anything that tickled my fancy. I came across these velvety sticker phrases on the clearance rack. There were three different assortments and they were just over $2 a piece. OK...the baby ones were the first to catch my eye, but I quickly fell in love with the other two assortments as well!!

With a birthday and a graduation coming up this week, I thought this would be a great time to try out my new velvety-smooth embellishments! This is the graduation card I created (you'll see the birthday card tomorrow). I totally CASE'd the patterned paper layout from a card that I saw on Kristina Werner's blog. The card base is Bashful Blue and the patterned paper is from the Jersey Shore collection.

I didn't want the "cheers" sentiment to get lost on the patterned paper, so I trimmed down a piece of Wild Wasabi and rounded two of the four corners to mimic the patterned paper. The velvet stickers are kind of hard to get lined up, but the adhesive is pretty forgiving. So if you do mess up (which I did about 4 times!), all you have to do is carefully peel it up and try again! Once you are satisfied with the placement, be sure to press down hard so the edges won't curl up.

To complete the project, I added 3 Bashful Blue brads in the upper left corner of the card front. Let me just tell you - it was SUPER hard not to put single stitch of ribbon on the card! But I'm glad I didn't because I'm LOVIN' the way this one turned out and hopefully Ashley will too!! Congrats Ash! (She graduates from Pharmacy school on Friday!)