My mother in law needed two graduation cards for twins (a boy and girl) that both graduated high school this past week. My mil wanted two cards that were similar but yet different. This is the card that I made for the boy. I used the school colors: red, black, and white.
I got the idea for my layout from this card shown here:
I used my Cricut to cut out the GRAD letters and I stamped and cut out the graduation cap using SU's Little Layers Plus stamp set. The little diploma I made myself by rolling up a small piece of white cardstock and tying it using SU silver cording. I made the background using my Cuttlebug and Distressed Striped Embossing folder.
The congratulations sentinment is from SU's All Year Cheer stamp set and the year 2009 is stamped using SU's All Around Alphabet Number stamp set.
The card that I ended up making for the girl can be seen here: