Retirement Card every day is a fresh start - SU Garden Meadow

Made this card for a friend that retired from teaching.

 

Supplies

calligraphy: handwritten Bee poem inside

cardstock/paper - vellum

CTMH: cardstock/paper - blue, gray, white

   ink - Charcoal  other - Liquid Glass (on Bee's wings)

   stamp/die - Country Bee

embossing: Silver embossing powder (sentiment)

Hero Arts: die - Nested Fairy Doors

ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMark

marker: Copic

Stampin' Up: cardstock/paper - Frames & Flowers (pattern)

   stamp/die - Garden Meadow

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Entering in: 

Simon Says Stamp Wed Ch Anything Goes   1/5  7/2

Retire M Measure Clocks Card

Please click here to enter Cuttin' & Stampin' Ch 14-19 Graduation Day.

Please click here to enter Doodle Pantry May Ch 46.  Click here to see my Cheetah Carousel Wild About You Shaped Card.

Please click here to enter One Stitch At A Time Ch212 Use a Digi. Please click here to see my make a wish Bday Card.


Created this Retirement card using a clock theme, Tim Holtz M Measure stamp & Stampin' Up sentiment. Distressed edges & used TH Distress Ink. Added gems & ribbon.

Supplies List 


gems: Studio 18
ink: VersaFine Onyx Black
paper:  DCWV Clocks scrapbook, cardstock - Kraft, brown
ribbon: the Paper Studio Clock Faces Twill
Stampin' Up: stamp - Teeny Tiny Wishes - sentiment 'Happy Retirement'
Tim Holtz: Distress ink - walnut stain, paper distresser, stamp - Classics #15 'M' Measure

Entering this into the following challenges:


5/18 Kraft Journal Ch#171 - Sketch 2E(#2) 5/12

5/18 Simon Says Stamp Mon Challenge: M 5E(#4) 5/12 

5/31 DLART May Linky Ch UE 1perDay 5/1 

Retirement Steampunk Gears/Cogs Card

Created this Clean & Simple CAS style Retirement Card for a guy friend. Used Tim Holtz Steampunk embossing folder. Sanded & inked the embossing. Used a Spellbinder die for sentiment tag that complements the Gears/Cogs of the embossing. Used a Stampin' Up sentiment "Happy Retirement." Inked the edges of the sentiment tag.

ink: MementoTuxedo Black
paper:
Kraft cardstock - Base & Sentiment Tag
Stampin' Up: Teeny Tiny Wishes - sentiment "Happy Retirement"
Tim Holtz: Distress Ink pumice stone
Tim Holtz core'dinations Pine Needles cardstock
  
Entering this into the following challenges:

Amusing Ch Anything Goes lim2 1st 10/28-11/3
DLART Thankful Thurs Anything Goes unlim 10/4-31
Paper Pretties Wed PWC229 Masculine Card unlim 10/24-30
Robyns Fetish Ch131 Use an Embossing Folder 10/28-11/3
Simon Says Stamp & Show Insp by Wendy Vecchi Steampunk Theme Ch unlim 10/22-28