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<\/p>\nOur new Achievements Collection provides the perfect neutral background for almost any photo. The black, white and grey hues are beautiful alone but also compliment any other color that you may wish to add.\u00a0 To personalize your graduation pages, simply add cardstock and ABC\/123 Letters in your school color(s).\u00a0 Use your solid cardstock to mat your photos or\u00a0to add a simple paper strip or a border made with our new Crown Border Maker Cartridge.\u00a0 Or use your school colors to make a preppy argyle border to add a collegiate look to a page.\u00a0 The additional color will make your pages pop!<\/p>\n
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To make this page, you\u2019ll need:<\/p>\n
Step 1: Cut two \u00bd\u201d x 12\u201d strips from the solid cardstock
\nStep 2:\u00a0 Using the middle sized circle pattern with the red blade on the inside track, cut four circles from the solid cardstock.
\nStep 3:\u00a0 Using the middle sized circle pattern with the green blade on the inside track, cut four circles from a variety of the achievements paper.\u00a0 Adhere these pieces to the solid circles from Step 2.
\nStep 4:\u00a0 Cut four 1.5\u201d x 3.5\u201d pieces from the same achievements paper that you used in Step 3.\u00a0 Trim one end of each into a ribbon edge.
\nStep 5:\u00a0 Adhere your ribbon pieces to the solid cardstock and trim around to leave a small edge.
\nStep 6:\u00a0 Use foam squares to adhere embellishments to the circle pieces.
\nStep 7:\u00a0 Cut two 4.25\u201d x 6.25\u201d pieces from the solid cardstock and mount two photos to the mats.
\nStep 8:\u00a0 Cut two 4.25\u201d x 7\u201d pieces from the solid cardstock and punch one short side from each piece using the border maker with crown cartridge.\u00a0 Adhere two photos to these mats.
\nStep 9:\u00a0 Cut a 4.5\u201d x 9\u201d piece from the solid cardstock and punch one short side using the border maker with crown cartridge. Adhere photo.
\nStep 10:\u00a0 Cut a 1.75\u201d x 4\u201d piece of white cardstock to use as a journaling box.
\nStep 11:\u00a0 Assemble page as shown.<\/p>\n
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To make this page, you\u2019ll need:<\/p>\n
Step 1: Cut a 5.25\u201d x 7.25\u201d piece from your school color cardstock and adhere a 5×7 photo to it. <\/p>\n To make this page, you\u2019ll need:<\/p>\n Step 1: Cut your base cardstock (red and royal blue in sample) to 9.25\u201d x 11.25\u201d.\u00a0 Using the 2-way corner rounder, round the two outside corners on each sheet and adhere to 12×12 Plain Pages. Our new Achievements Collection provides the perfect neutral background for almost any photo. The black, white and grey hues are beautiful alone but also compliment any other color that you may wish to add.\u00a0 To personalize your graduation pages, simply add cardstock and ABC\/123 Letters in your school color(s).\u00a0 Use your solid cardstock to mat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95570245,"featured_media":2027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13787,26012430,406242329,14113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduation","category-page-layout-ideas","category-product-tips-and-ideas","category-project-ideas"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p5210352.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NsZA-uQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19794,"url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2017\/05\/17\/quick-easy-graduation-sampler\/","url_meta":{"origin":1912,"position":0},"title":"Quick & Easy Graduation Sampler","author":"Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe","date":"May 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This spring, many of you will be celebrating a graduation in your household. \u00a0Whether it's a graduation from kindergarten to college, it's an important rite of passage that deserves to be recognized. \u00a0Honor the grad in your house with this simple but stunning sampler. 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\nStep 2:\u00a0 Cut a 3\u201d x 12\u201d strip of black cardstock or your second school color\u00a0cardstock.
\nStep 3:\u00a0 Cut a strip of achievements paper to slightly wider<\/span> than 2.75\u201d x 12\u201dand adhere it to the strip from Step 2.
\nStep 4:\u00a0 Punch or cut five 2\u201d squares from the white cardstock and adhere these pieces to your strip from Step 2.\u00a0 Adhere on a diagonal as shown.\u00a0 You will have to trim one square.
\nStep 5:\u00a0 Cut eight 1\u201d squares from your school color cardstock.
\nStep 6:\u00a0 Adhere these pieces to the white squares on a diagonal edge as shown in the orange on my page.
\nStep 7:\u00a0 Cut eight 1\u201d squares from your second school color or black cardstock.\u00a0 Adhere these pieces in-between the white squares.\u00a0 Please refer to the black squares on my page.\u00a0 You will have to trim two squares.
\nStep 8:\u00a0 Assemble page as shown.<\/p>\n![\"KarynGraduation3-1.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/karyngraduation3-1.jpg\" "\\"KarynGraduation3-1.jpg\\"")
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\nStep 2:\u00a0 Crop and mount photos onto solid cardstock (red and royal blue in sample)
\nStep 3:\u00a0 From a variety of the achievements paper, cut two of each size: 7\u201d x 4\u201d; 2.25\u201d x 4\u201d; 9.25\u201d x 1.5\u201d; 7\u201d x 3\u201d; and 2.25\u201d x 3\u201d.
\nStep 4:\u00a0 Using the 2-way corner rounder, round the two outside edges of four of the pieces.\u00a0 See sample.
\nStep 5:\u00a0 Adhere pieces to your solid cardstock bases.\u00a0 See sample.
\nStep 6:\u00a0 To make ribbon, cut a circle from solid cardstock using the largest circle pattern with the red blade on the inside edge.\u00a0 Cut a circle from achievements paper using the largest circle pattern with the green blade on the inside edge.\u00a0 Cut a circle from cardstock using the largest circle pattern with the blue blade on the inside edge.
\nStep 7:\u00a0 Using the original border maker with crown cartridge, punch two borders from achievements paper and trim to 1\u201d.\u00a0 Cut off the half crowns on each side.
\nStep 8:\u00a0 Make small folds in-between the crowns of each crown border.
\nStep 9:\u00a0 Run Tape Runner around the outside edge of your largest circle, and stick your folded crown border to the tape forming a circle as you go around.\u00a0 You will only use about 3.5\u201d of your second border. (Use this technique to make a sun for other layouts.)
\nStep 10:\u00a0 Adhere your other two circles on top.
\nStep 11:\u00a0 Cut a variety of strips from cardstock and achievements paper to make ribbons.\u00a0 Mine are 1.75\u201d to \u00be\u201d in width.
\nStep 12:\u00a0 Add titles to page and to ribbon with ABC\/123 stickers in your school color.
\nStep 13:\u00a0 Use foam squares to adhere achievements embellishments as shown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"