Summertime means graduations and tomatoes

I am on a roll, two cards in two days. Yay me! I found the perfect sketch  for a graduation card I need for this weekend, Sketch Saturday #515. Here's the sketch:

For my card, I used two types of miscellaneous patterned paper, two types of ribbon, and a few embellishments. I cut the cap and diploma using Cricut Design Center. Unfortunately, the colors look a little muddy in the photo but I'm pretty happy with it. 

I'm also entering the following challenges:

Always Fun Challenges where the theme is Graduation, perfect!

Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper Challenge

Shopping our Stash Graduation or Congrats

And now if you made this far, feast your eyes on the coup de grace, the harbinger of summer...my first almost ripe Early Girl tomato.  I love love love sandwiches of all kinds and few things me happier that a REAL tomato on my sandwich. You're welcome. 

Oh tie a piece of twine around the Christmas card...

Finally a couple of Christmas cards, based on the Jingle Belles card challenge, to make a Christmas card using ribbon, string, twine, lace, dental floss, shoe strings...you get the idea. I made two using the Tim Holtz Snow Globe dies. 

It might not be very noticeable but the first card uses subtly patterned paper for everything except the snowy roofs and mountain tops.

For the second card, I water colored the globe and then die-cut all the pieces using different colors of Kraft-core paper, and roughed them up with a nail file.

Now I'm up to six Christmas cards. Hmm.

I am also submitting this to Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge, this week's challenge is Anything Goes as Long as it's Christmas.