Happy Retirement

I have a good friend retiring on Monday.  This is the card I made for this momentous occasion.  I cased it from the Michael Strong stamps group. The background is his cloisonne frame stamp that I colored with Marvy markers, then cut out the frames with Spellbinders labels.  I stamped the sentiment with Versamark and used white embossing powder.  The sentiment is from Verses Rubber Stamps.

Matchbook card

 This is the card I made for Mother's Day this year.  It is a fun design, different from a standard card.  It was made with 1 sheet of 4 1/4 x 11 card stock.  Score at 1 1/2" and 7 1/2".  Fold, and then staple the 1 1/2" fold 1" from the bottom.  Fold the 2nd score and tuck under the edge of the bottom fold.  I used  a piece of printed paper of poppies for the bottom part.  The top area is stamped and then I used colored pencils to color in some of the flowers.  The top picture is of the card closed and the bottom picture shows it open.