Sneak Peek Day 1 – Celebrate Their Big Moment!
Penny here, and I’m so excited to kick off Day 1 of our April Release countdown! With graduation season right around the corner, today’s sneak peeks are all about celebrating milestones, honoring big achievements, and sending your love to the grads in your life.
These products were designed to help you craft heartfelt cards and keepsakes for every graduate—from preschool to PhD!
Our team has been hard at work creating stunning inspiration using:
🎓 The Bigs: Congrats to the Grad Stamps and Dies – Say it loud and proud with bold sentiments perfect for making your graduate feel special.
🎓 Cornered: Graduation Dies – Add detail and flair to any corner with these celebratory cap-and-star designs.
✨ Cascading Stars Hot Foil Plate – The perfect finishing touch! Bring sparkle and movement to your cards with a cascade of beautiful stars.
Below, you’ll find a range of creative ideas from our incredible design team. Each project showcases a unique style and take on these new releases—and we know you’ll find one (or five!) that speaks to you.
And don’t forget—our new release goes live on Friday, April 18 at 12PM ET.
Set your reminders now!
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The Bigs Congrats to the Grad stamps and dies
Featured designs by Brenda & Nina
Kelly Lunceford, Melissa Phillips
Bobbi Lemanski, Catherine Cohen
Steph Guse, Liane Hodges
Leanne West, Melody Rupple
Catherine Cohen, Betty Wright
Kelly Lunceford
Bobbi Lemanski
Steph Guse
Leanne West
Catherine Cohen
Melissa Phillips
Catherine Cohen
Liane Hodges
Melody Rupple
Betty Wright
Cornered: Graduation dies + Cascading Stars Hot Foil Plate
Featured design by Betty
Melissa Phillips, Steph Guse
Kelly Lunceford, Liane Hodges
Brenda Noelke, Bobbi Lemanski
Melody Rupple, Nina Brackett
Melissa Phillips
Kelly Lunceford
Brenda Noelke
Melody Rupple
Steph Guse
Liane Hodges
Bobbi Lemanski
Nina Brackett
We hope today’s sneak peek has you just as excited as we are for what’s to come! Whether you’re crafting for a kindergartner or a college grad, these new products offer endless possibilities to celebrate life’s big wins with love and creativity. 
Don’t forget to scroll down and vote for your favorite project in the comments—your input means the world to us and helps others find inspiration too!
There’s so much more to come, so be sure to check back tomorrow for another round of sneak peeks from our April release. You’re not going to want to miss it!
Love Kelly Lunceford’s card !! So pretty!
I really like Kelly’s card, Hats off to the Grad!
I love Kelly’s cards! She adds so much interest and color to her cards.
The black Betty Wright card is so elegant but all of the cards are fantastic! The gold foiling stars are awesome makes me want to buy a hot foil machine.
I love the unique design from Catherine Cohen, and I really like the traditional school look of Steph Guse.
It’s a toss up between Kelly Lunceford and Catherine Cohen cards for me, both are so pretty and perfect for any graduate.
#1 love this card! Beautiful ❤️
I love Leanne West’s card! Very classy and different from the usual graduation color schemes. ~ Lizzie B. @the_paper_patisserie
I love card #15 design by Melissa–so lovely with all of the stars!
I can’t pick just one! Kelly Lunceford’s green cap with the delicate florals is so pretty, and I also like the elegant pink and black with gold stars gem by Melody Rupple. The cascading stars and caps card by Betty is so fun!
My favorite is Catherine Cohen’s design. All the designers did a wonderful job!
Liane Hodges Hats Off to the Grad card, but they are all great and some very unique designs!
Oh wow how fun!!! I love Catherine’s!
I love Bobbi’s red and black card. Great cards from the design team!
I love the star border on Melody’s pink card. Just in general, I’m very excited to see some more graduation card options from Papertrey Ink!!
Melody is girlie card is my favorite. So beautiful and feminine.
Great grads release…..love the soft look in Leanne’s card…they all did a tremendous job!
Catherine Cohen fun fold is really cool that holds a gift card
I love everyone’s cards – They’re all great. Lots of wonderful ideas for graduation cards!
The cascading stars are cool! I’ve always loved the combination of pink & black so I like Melody’s color choices.
Love both of Kelly’s cards, but her Dream Big card is my favorite of all the great projects made by the DT!
SQUEAL!! LOVING ALL of the Projects for today!! Such AMAZING Inspiration and I ENJOY seeing all of the different ways these products can be used depending on your personal style or the style of the Graduate!! Can’t WAIT to see MORE!! THANKS for sharing!!
Hats off to all the creators! Kelly Lunceford’s Hats Off in green is my favourite project.
I love Catherine’s card. It is fantastic.
Such a wide range of beautiful cards! I like Kelly’s first card best wit its fresh greens.
Love Kelly’s cards! The one with the flowers in the corners is soooo elegant!!!!!
All the DTs did amazing!
Love all the cards!! I do really love the first card by Kelly and the cool cards by Catherine Cohen!!
I like the blue and gold card that Steph Guse made. It is simple yet the details bring out the wow factor. I also like the color combination as it can be used for anyone.
Fun cards for the graduates; all are very creative!
I’m partial to both of the green cards that Kelly created!
Kelly’s girly card and more masculine card really appeal to me. I may copy!
Melody’s Dream Big card is my favorite! I love the pretty flowers on the grad cap!
Melody Rupple’s card….love the flowers and color contrast!
Oh that’s a tough call but I’d say either Steph Guse in the Big Congrats or Bobbi Lemanski in the grad dies and stars!
So loving Kelly’s card!
I love Betty’s card with the variety of colored caps! Such a great CAS card.
Kelly Lunceford’s beautiful card caught my eye first! Love the feminine design of this card, as I have two nieces graduating college in May!!
I really like Bobbi’s cards! They are all excellent though!
I like Catherine’s as it looks interactive with the gift card inside!
I love Kelly’s card and how she framed it with the flowers and the grad cap – just beautifully done!
The cards are all awesome but I love Kelly’s more feminine approach to a graduation card…absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
Loving Kelly Luncefords hats off to the grad card!
I love Kelly’s designs! She’s so creative.
I love the clever card Catherine made- so fun!!
Wonderful examples. My favorite is Kelly Lunceford’s Hats off to the Grad card.
This is such a timely release! I think Kelly L.’s might be my favorite card. I really like the feminine and floral combo.
Love Kelly’s Hats off to the Grad card! Super!
These are great cards for graduation! Love them all! Especially Kelly’s with the flowers.
I love the hat with the flowers by Kelly Lunceford.
I love Kelly’s cards. The colors are beautiful.
I adore Melody’s pink and gold card! Love those colors and the floral mortarboard!
I love Bobbi’s card for bold graphic use.
These are such amazing cards, I love each and everyone of them! if I had to pick a favorite, I would say Melissa’s card. Well done, team!
I love Catherine’s card because it is so unique.
Love Kelly’s use of green! Gorgeous!
Love Melody Rupple’s “Dream Big” card!
Looks to br a great release. Kelly’s cards are always tops for me!
Love this big and bold Grad statement – beautiful font and design!
Fabulous cards by the whole team. I love Melody’s pink & black grad card.
Loving the graduation cards. I love Melody’s grad card
So many wonderful graduation cards! I love Liane’s card
Love Kelly’s card! The grad stuff is perfect!
Gorgeous cards!
Love all the cards with pink! Love the pink & black together!
Such awesome cards
and I love Melissa Phillips’
cards!
Carla from Arizona
I love these graduate dies and stamps. They are great for all ages. Melissa Phillips card is my favorite one.
I really like this set of stamp and dies. I love all the cards and they inspire me a lot. I particularly love the card made by Kelly Lunceford. It is so classic and elegant.
Awesome grad cards. Kelly and Keane’s cards are fantastic!
Love all the cards but Kelly’s are my favorite.
Kelly Lunceford – Hats Off to the Grad. This card is so beautiful!!
All the grad cards are so creative, but my favorite is Melissa Phillips. So bright and cheerful. Love the design.
Catherine’s card is very cool with all the folds. Love them all. Thanks for all the inspiration
Please don’t make me pick a favorite! They are all so beautiful!
Kelly’s Hats Off to the Grad card is simply stunning. LOVE it!
Favorite card is Kelly Lunceford again. Love the colors.
Nina’s card is gorgeous!
I love the grad cap with the dots. I recently made a grad card for my sister using the same concept. I stitched around the edge of the cap with a running stitch and used felt flowers on it; turned out beautiful. The DT cards are so lovely.
I love Kelly’s card with all the pretty greens and the pale pink flowers. So beautiful!
Bobbi Lemanski’s black and white card is my favorite: so elegant and celebratory.
I love Melody’s graduation card. #9 there’s not one thing I would change. Will be shopping to recreate thst card for my daughter’s graduation in May.
I really like Catherine’s fancy fold graduation card!
Loving Kelly’s card. The soft colors make the black sentiment so striking. Gorgeous!
Love all these cards so many beautiful ones !!!!