Masculine Retirement

 I had a request to make a retirement card for a gentleman who always enjoyed deer hunting and this is what I made for him. I used some retired SU! woodgrain papers along with some gold glitter paper, black cardstock and a die-cut deer stag by KaiserCraft. The card base layer was done with Lil Inker stitched rectangles while the oval scalloped frame was done with GinaMarieDesigns dies while the horizontal stitched panel behind the oval was done with a MFT die. The SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment (2009-2010) was heat-embossed with gold ep and cut with a MFT fishtail banner die.

Sharing this with the following challenge

The Allsorts Challenge week #757 - stitching, Real or Faux

Thanks for stopping by and I hope life is being good to you in your part of the world. Have a great weekend!

Carol

Time Flies

Here's a retirement card I made recently from scraps in my bin. I used a snippet of distressed pastel blue dsp and tore it on the edge for a worn look, then put it on a soft stone card base. The clock was cut from an I.O die in red, celery green, and black and the sentiment is from Studio Calico. The blue gemstones are from GKD.

I'll enter this into the Snippets Playground #380

Today we celebrate Flag Day in the US and I should have made a red, white and blue card to honor our colors, but I actually forgot this day was approaching. Like the card says - time does fly! Since this situation was thrown upon us, one day just bleeds into the next and I have to look at the calendar every morning to remind myself what day it is........sigh. 

There's no excuse for me though, because I made flags for 23 years until our plant closed in 2006.

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

Another Retirement Card

I made this masculine retirement card using a Tim Holtz stamp set on some Midnight Muse card stock. I heat embossed the sentiment with silver embossing powder, adding silver and blue brads for accents. I tore the sentiment panel to give it a more rustic look, but I'm not sure I accomplished what I set out to create. The clock faces were stamped with white craft ink in the background to represent the element of time.

I'm entering this into the Cardz 4 Guyz challenge #211 which is to use Trains, Planes and/or automobiles.

Also entering into the Stinkin' Inkers Challenge Blog "It's News to Me" - Create a card or project using anything coming up in the new year that is new

to you, for example: new job, baby, wedding, retirement, graduation, new home etc.

Wishing you and yours a great weekend. It's going to be stormy for quite a few of us, so stay warm and stay inside if you possibly can!

Carol

Retirement Card

I was asked to make a retirement card recently, so I made several, and I'll share one with you today. I began with a piece of vanilla card stock, sponging some antique linen ink through a SU! brick stencil just in the center of the panel. Next I used a Cuttlebug "clockworks" embossing folder, then used an aqua brush and several inkpads to add watercolor stains. The metal clock hands and brad are from Tim Holtz - something I've been hoarding for years! The sentiment is from the MFP stamp set "Take Time to Live" and I heat-embossed it with gold on an espresso snippet of card stock, then tore it around the edges to age it a bit. The inside simply says "Happy Retirement" and it's on an early espresso card base.

I'm sharing this with the Happy Little Stampers January Watercolor challenge which is anything goes with texture.

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great weekend! Always take time to live - life is short!

Carol

Sail Away to Retirement

I borrowed this beautiful sailboat die from my stamping buddy, but didn't get the name of it, but as soon as I saw it I thought of a retirement card, so that's what I made. I began with a piece of watercolor paper and sponged it with lots of colors to create the background, then glued the die-cut right on top. All it needed was a simple sentiment but of course that smeared while stamping it, so I had to use plan B and make a sentiment panel to glue over the smudge. The sentiment is by SU! I'm real happy with the way this turned out and hopefully the recipient will be as well.

I'm sharing this with the Double D "silhouettes" Challenge which is to create a silhouette image.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your weekend is off to a wonderful start!

Carol

Congratulations

A bank employee we've known for quite a number of years told us recently she's retiring in a few weeks, so I wanted to make her a card. She's always been that bright, cheerful person who greets us and it's been a delightful experience doing banking with someone so kind and pleasant. I used a MB Vivienne and Darla butterfly die combination, along with an embossed background done with a Cuttlebug Geometric rings embossing folder. The sentiment is a SU! silver heat-embossed version done on pale grey cardstock, and all the tiny pearls and clear gemstones are from Pizzazz Aplenty. I computer generated a retirement sentiment for the inside. And if you're wondering - yes! LOL I adhered each pearl to the centers in the embossed design.........it went pretty quickly with glossy accents. The pink cardstock is by Bazzill Basics and I really like the soft pink color. Like a butterfly, she's off to a new way of life and I wish her nothing but the best.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a great weekend!

Carol

To The Beach

I found this free digital image in my folder, but it had no name attached, so I don't know who to give credit for the design. I colored it with Copics, adding some sponged clouds with tumbled glass ink. I edged the image and die-cut sentiment panels with a pink fluorescent Copic and added some clear gemstones to the stamped flip-flops and sentiment. The starfish is a Marianne die cut which was sponged with antique linen ink. The dsp is a long-hoarded favorite from SU!

I'm sharing this with the Little Red Wagon #336 challenge which is "celebrate." Retiring is certainly a good reason to celebrate, right?!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Carol

Retirement Card

I realized recently that my stash of retirement cards was nearly depleted, so I made this masculine version that I'll add to the pile. I embossed the newsprint background with the CB Clockworks ef and sponged antique linen and vintage photo inks around the edges. The clock and top sentiment are HA, and I put the red circle/slash over the clockface to indicate you no longer need to watch the time so carefully. The bottom sentiment is a stamp I found in a local $1 bin. I added gold embossed hands to the clock, and some assorted mini star brads here and there. There's another brad in the top turned-down corner but you can't see it too well in the picture.

I'm entering this over at MFP Speedy Fox & Friends challenge #196 to use newspaper or a book page on your card.

I'm also taking this over to the Snippets Playground #109 since I used scraps of cardstock to put this together.

Make it a great Tuesday and thanks for stopping by!

Carol