Retirement Celebration

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Hope you all are blessed with fabulous food and spending time with friends and family!   Today I have an easel retirement card for one of my Assistant Manager's at work.  This is Sophie from Kraftin' Kimmie. 

            The papers are MME called "the sweetest thing".  The solid cardstock is Bazill and    

the glitter cardstock is Core'dinations Glitter Silk.  The flowers are WOC. 

 I added a lot of bling with the brad on the ribbon being from CTMH.  

The diamond gems on the corners and on her finger are from Recollections 

(Michaels brand).  All 5 dies I used are Spellbinders.

These two pics show some paper pleating and a cute martini charm.

The decorated inside of the card.  The pocket holds several pull out cards so there is
plenty of room for all my co-workers to sign it!  Below is the box envelope to match.

Copics I used: 

That's all I have for you on this quick post today!  Off to do some cooking!

Challenges Sophie will enter:

kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.com: it's a sketch

songbirdchallenges.blogspot.com: diamonds are a girl's best friend

glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.com: lots of layers

stamptacularsundaychallenge.blogspot.com: recipe: mine is ribbon, gems, dies

crazychallenge.blogspot.com: decorate inside of card

craftycardmakers.blogspot.com: more than one punch and/or die cut

cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com: paper pleating

incywincydesigns.blogspot.com: hip to be square

pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.com: any die will do

theprettylittleribbonshop.blogspot.com: die cuts/punches, ribbons, charms

Nurse graduation!

So I'm really late in getting this graduation card posted but it was actually done in time!  LOL! 

This is called "Nurse" from CC Designs and I think she is adorable!  I'm a nurse so I'm always looking for cute nurse stamps.  I actually made one of these into a cute little 1" image and put her on my badge at work.  Everyone loves it and thinks she is a sticker!  (I always correct them of course! tehe).   It was made for a nurse friend who's little sister was just graduating nursing school.

Graduation Boy

Well...it's true what my sister, Angie posted.  And it's here for anyone to see.  No posts since November.  I'm a miserable failure at this blogging thing.  But hopefully the two of us will do better moving forward.  Angie makes beautiful, beautiful cards, and I look forward to seeing her creations here.

As for now, I just finished a graduation card for a special and dear friend of my daughter.  She loves him very much.  Their school colors are orange and black.  WOW - how do you make a card for a BOY that doesn't look too frilly and girly...AND use orange and black that doesn't look like Halloween.  That was my challenge.  While my daughter, Katelyn, and I don't think Lance will truly appreciate the time spent on this card, we do figure his mother and sister will enjoy it.  Ha!  I also have ulterior motives to post this to a challenge on Krista Smith's blog.  She is the amazing artist who created the Graduation Boy image.  LOVE HER work.  You can get Graduation Boy at https://saturated-canary.myshopify.com/.

In the meantime, enjoy!

Followup to this card...apparently I shouldn't assemble late at night or in this case, early in the morning (around 2 am).  Neither my sister, daughter or I caught that I reversed the numbers in the year.  My dyslexia kicked in for me to honor this card.  Oh well, it's the thought that counts.

xx,
Jo