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Mother’s Day and graduation season is quickly approaching. Today I am sharing a fun Mother’s Day card and two graduation cards, all using a couple of sets from the Catherine Pooler Designs – The Perfect Reason Collection. It is not a secret I enjoy challenging myself to use stamp sets in unexpected ways. Hopefully, my cards will help you look at stamp sets in a new and exciting way. Exciting……Well, yes because there is also a sponsored giveaway. More details after I share my cards.
Mother’s Day
This Mother’s Day card was created using Catherine Pooler Designs Paisley Peacock stamp set and You Did It stamp set. My Mother enjoys birds, but she loves flowers. So how do I turn a Peacock into a flower? This stamp set is packed with several building elements that can be used in a plethora of ways. I started with the large tail piece and stamped on each side of a 4″ card panel. (Tip: Repeat stamping to create a wreath – Position stamp on the center of one side of your square card panel. Use your MISTI to keep placement and then turn your panel and stamp on each side.) Just this one stamp fills the panel nicely. I added a couple more elements in different colors and stamped using my MISTI using the same method as described in the above tip. The colors used are Catherine Pooler Designs: Aquatini, Fiesta Blue, Something Borrowed and Flirty Fuchsia. Then I stamped the sentiment which is from the You Did It stamp set. This design makes me think of a fluffy hydrangea wreath.
The finished stamped panel is matted to a black piece of cardstock leaving a 1/16″ border. I added a strip of striped patterned paper from the Black Tie Gala patterned paper pack to the A2 top folding, black card base. Finally I finished the card by adhering the stamped panel with a layer of craft foam to the card base. I surprised myself with this card. I hope it sparked your interest and you give it a try.
Graduation
The next two cards I have to share with you were created using Catherine Pooler Designs: Perfect Reason stamp set and You Did It stamp set. 
This masculine graduation card was quite simple and completed by repeat stamping. I used the MISTI to stamp congrats multiple times in a two tone ombre (Black Jack and Juniper Mist). I then used a small acrylic stamp block to stamp the stars (Sauna). The stamped panel was then trimmed down to 4-1/4″ x 5″ and then adhered to an A2 top folding card base (Smoke).
Above is a close-up showing the change in the ink colors for the repeat stamped sentiment.
Are you ready for the grand finale? For this feminine graduation card I created floral fireworks. First I stamped the sentiment. Then I stamped the flowers and dots (sweet sixteen and flirty fuchsia). I die-cut several of the flowers, stamped them and then adhered with foam tape. The large flowers have a double layer of die-cuts and the small flower is just a single layer. The panel is adhered to the A2 white card base along with a layer of craft foam. 
I love the dimension of the floral fireworks. What a fun card to create. Did I spark your interest to create something new?
Giveaway
This sponsored giveaway for the Catherine Pooler Designs, Paisley Peacock stamp set along with coordinating dies can be yours simply by leaving a comment. This giveaway is open to US residents only. You have through Sunday, April 15, 2018, 11:59PM Eastern Time to enter.
Thank you for taking the time to stop by and also leave a comment. Good luck to all of you for the giveaway.
Catherine Pooler Designs – Creative Team Members Lisa Harrolle, Ilina Crouse and Karen Baker also have some amazing cards to share with you. Leave them a comment to be entered in their giveaways.
GIVEAWAY WINNER
Congratulations, Betsy Calvin, you are the winner. I will be sending you an e-mail shortly. Thank you everyone for participating in the giveaway and leaving such kind comments. You encourage me to keep creating.
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Tracie, they are AMAZING and GORGEOUS cards!!!
Beautiful cards, love
the Peacock!
Carla from Utah
Very cool cards!
I love the firework flowers! Thanks for the chance to win.
What fun ways you have used the peacock stamps. Love the colors you used too!
Beautiful cheerful cards, great arrangement for any ages. Great inspiration 💕
These are nice. I like that the stamp set can be used to make the peacock as well as just a paisley design.
Love the floral fireworks. All of the cards
are wonderful. thanks for sharing
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Beautiful cards!! Love them all!!
Such a great variety of looks with your cards. Love them all! Thank you for the inspiration.
Your cards are so cute. Want to do the peacock feathers, of course I like all the cards here. Am a big fan of Catherine Pooler’s ink and her stamp sets. Thanks
All of your cards are wonderful. I especially like the feminine graduation card. Could be used for many different purposes. Thanks for sharing.
i love the creative way you used the peacock feathers!! TFS!!
Beautiful cards! Thank you for sharing!
I love your cards. I am a beginner card maker.
Thanks for the inspiration to think outside the box. I love all your cards but really liked the first. I liked the wreath concept but using fewer images and not “really a round wreath”. I also liked how you made a square panel into a rectangle card. Square cards cost more to send.
I love these cards, especially the feminine graduation card. So unique and interesting. For my next graduate I will make this. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
Your cards are fantastic! Really love what you did with both cards and great colors, thank you for sharing and a chance to win. Have a wonderful weekend!
Wonderful color combos and card designs!
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How clever of you to use stamps in different ways than the original purpose.–peacock tails for a round design and floral for fireworks. Thanks for the hint about evenly spacing the elements of the circle. Great cards, girl.
Great ideas! I have a couple of graduation cards that I need to make – you’ve definitely inspired me! Thanks for sharing!
Love your cards!
Beautiful cards! I tend to like the simple cards.
Beautiful I would so like to win this, thank you for the chance xx
Gorgeous projects Tracie!!! LOVE them both. 🙂
Great ideas on how to use the peacock stamp set without making a peacock! I never think of that until someone shows me.
Love these cards. You have given me the desire to challenge myself and the think outside the box. Wish me luck.!
thanks for sharing your wonderful cads with us – there are so many ideas here that I am going to ‘borrow’ lol!
Love all the colors and the great cards that you make. Just love the graduation card whit the purple dots.
Beautiful cards!! 🙂 Thank you for the giveaway, I would love to win!! I have a shipping address in the US if I win 🙂
These are all great ideas. Love how you added the dots on the last one.
Gorgeous colors on all of your cards. Love the
Peacock card and the Awesome design of it.
Anytime you can turn something into a flower, it is a good day. I can see the hydrangeas. <3
These cards are beautiful… love the unique way you used the peacock.., very clever! Thanks for sharing
You are so creative! What a fun and beautiful card.
very interesting how you took a floral element and turned it into fireworks! I love the sentiment, too, on the purple card. And the blue and yellow is perfect for a more masculine feel–something I struggle with a bit. Thank you.
Love your cards, Tracie. They are so vibrant and full of life. I love birds and flowers too.
Awesome creativity, thank you!!
The Paisley Peacock is a really neat stamp set. I like how you used his tail feathers to make flowers for your Mother’s card. 🙂
ZOWEE! These are such unique ways to use stamps and dies and colors!
Oh Tracie- such beautiful cards ! Our oldest daughter is graduating from college in a week and a half so your congrats card especially made me smile ! I absolutely love the use of the something borrowed blue – a vision !! TFS! 🙂
Beautiful cards! I love seeing ideas for masculine cards.
Love your ideas and how you use the products!!!
Wowzers! I’ve never seen that Peacock set, it’s so beautiful and versatile! Thanks for a great Giveaway!
This is perfect timing for me. My granddaughter is going to love that feminine “You Did It” card. She graduates in June. Thank you so much for the inspiration!
I love the creative way you used the elements from these stamp sets. I know that I often get stuck trying to figure out how to use my stamps in new ways and these cards are so fun!
I love the “You did it” card. The flowers pop and the colors are fantastic. The peacock stamp and die are to die for (haha). Thanks for the inspiration!!!!
Great ideas. Thanks for sharing them.
Beautiful cards love the purple one the best.!!
I love the colors in the first card, and I really love how the use of black & white make the other colors pop! Thanks for sharing!
I love the purple card!
Wonderful cards! What an awesome way to utilize the peacock stamp set! Both grad cards are fabulous! I’m always looking for fresh ideas for graduation. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome cards! I love the color combo on the first card and the b&w striped paper!
Awesome cards. Love the color combinations. Great job.
Very creative! I love the cards! What an inspiration!
I love the cards you made with the peacock stamp set. I love your site. I get so many ideas from you and even some new tools to order from you.
Beautiful cards! I love when stamp sets get used in different ways. So creative!
All of your cards are awesome! Love the Mother’s Day card with the peacock stamp. Thanks so much for sharing…
Wow! Beautiful cards! My favorite is the feminine flower bursts. You are very creative!! TFS
I like the purple flowery one…very pretty…my type of flowers.
I just love your feminine congrats card with the beautiful lilacs. Very creative design! Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous cards! You were VERY successful at finding alternate uses for these fabulous stamp sets. Wildly creative!
Oh these are wonderful! LOVE how you used the peacock stamp ♥
Terrific cards! Especially love the peacock tail feathers card.
What lovely sets! So many design possibilities!
I L❤️VE the purple, feminine Grad Card. It’s not the typical “cap” or rolled document. Thanx for the opportunity to win stamps and dies so I may make my own Grad cards…using the individuals class colors.
I love the fireworks card. That is so clever and cute. I have two nieces graduating this year and they would be perfect. Thanks for sharing these cards.
I love the purple flower fireworks card and how you popped them up – looks fabulous! Thanks for sharing.
These are fantastic! I love your creative use of the feather stamp on the first card!
So hapoy I decided to pop over from StampNation, Tracie, so I got to see all three cards. Absolutely love your purple graduation card!
Tracie, all of the cards are so pretty. Great colors and patterns, and your use of the peacock feathers stamp is so clever. I just got three of Catherine’s ink pads and love them. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
Love what you did with the peacock stamp set. These are fantastic cards. I’m a big Pooler fan, especially of the ink pads.