*This post contains affiliate links to Simon Says Stamp. It's almost Graduation Party season, so I was excited to get the Grad Cover Plate from the latest Simon Says Stamp Celebrate release. This is the perfect die for pumping out a bunch of graduation cards. My older daughter is just a Junior this year, but she's gotten several invites for grad parties, so I created a few cards for her to take to those. I decided to personalize them a bit using the colors of the schools they will be attending, and adding a shaker element. The 'Here's To' and graduation cap elements were inlaid. I added some adhesive to the back of a small piece of printer paper and adhered that directly behind those elements. Then I inlaid a contrasting color/paper. I used Gold Matte for the William & Mary card, Silver Matte for the Bowdoin card, and a mint green for the William Smith card. The last few shaker cards I made I didn't think shook well because they shaker element wasn't deep enough, so for these cards I used two layers of foam tape to make sure the sequins had room to breath and move around. I used a combination of 3D foam strips from Simon Says Stamp and Altenew foam tape. They are just about the same thickness in terms of height, but it was great to be able to use those skinny foam strips from Simon on the left and right edges of the card....otherwise I would have had to cut my Altenew tape into thinner strips, so definitely a time saver for me. These were really quick and easy to put together and I'll definitely be making more as the grad party invites roll in!