2020 will definitely go down as a special year in the history books! For graduating high school seniors in the USA it will be remembered partly for having no last day of school (Instead they were at school for a regular day and the next they were never to return), no prom night, no prank day etc.
Still, I think it will go down as one of the best high school graduations our small community has ever had! The whole community played a part in making the seniors feel honored and my heart is so very filled with gratitude. My son is now an adult, but it was so wonderful to see the joy of the day beaming out of him!!I made special cards for his friends and posted the guy's cards yesterday "It's Graduation Guys!" I thought I would give the girls a page of their own too! Yesterday I neglected to mention the beautiful silver numbers were cut from a Tonic Studios die.
**Trouble shooting ~ sharing my mistakes so you won't have to make them!!
1. Our school colors are black and red, but I had antique in my head for the shadow stamping ~ ugg, I had already used the sepia ink on half of the cards when I realized that a gray would be soooo much better! So think about your colors BEFORE you stamp!!!
2. As I made the clouding background around the graduate I learned that the black watercolor separates into shades of purple, while the grays seemed to keep their color integrity! I used Zig real brush watercolors for this, but you'll want to check your dilution on a test paper BEFORE you begin!! (Ha! ha! Are you detecting a little impatience in my creative style!! 🤣)
3. A problem with sentiments? I don't know how many they have, but nearly every time I need a unique sentiment I find it with the Unity Stamp Co!! I keep a log of them stamped like a dictionary so that I can find the right one when I want ~ aren't these wonderful for graduation? 💜
FYI: No one needs to panic, social distancing was practiced during the day! Our City sponsored a police escort parade for the grads in their cars ~ some decorated to the max! A slide show of the seniors and their quotes was live fed to FaceBook, signs for each and every graduate lined the streets for days before the Big Day and the ceremony was held outdoors with the parents parked along the school's track while each grad took the podium one at a time, along with great senior speeches and singing too! Everyone was so excited for them and so supportive it made me cry a little!
I hope some normalcy is returning to your world and I hoped to share a little of my joy with you today! I am filled with gratitude that our creator allowed these kids to have the beauty of this day even in the midst of so much sadness and chaos. They are the leaders, homemakers, parents and service people of tomorrow and I send out prayers for all graduates, be it kindergarten or college level. May their futures be blessed and their milestones be celebrated!
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Sounds like you had a lovely graduation ceremony after all. Here in Sweden, graduation is on Tuesday and in our town the school board has said that no viewers at all are allowed during the ceremony. Usually parents and friends gather outside the school and cheer for the youngsters as they run out of the school building, whistling and cheering. My youngest is graduating this year and let me tell you, there's no stopping me (and lots of other parents) cause the school board can say that we are not allowed to gather outside school but they can't stop us from standing OUTSIDE school premises - like the parking lot ;).
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, I really love your cards and the sentiment is just perfect!