Bella & Friends

Hello, welcome to my blog.  My share for you today is a retirement card for a co-worker.  She has three puppies so I thought Bella and Friends would be perfect.   I went to the Stampin' Up! Online InColor Color Chart to come up with my color combo.  This free tool is awesome and is something you can print out to use as a reference.  Flipping through my color chart, I landed on Fresh Fig.  It was paired with Melon Mambo and Soft Seafoam and I love these colors together.  You can print the regular family color templates HERE.

Measurements:

Thick Whisper White: 5 ½ x 8½
Fresh Fig: 5¼ x 4
Soft Seafoam: 5 x 3¾
Brights 6 x 6 DSP: 4¾ x 3½
Whisper White: 2¾ x 2¾, scrap for sentiment

Instructions:

- Fold card base in half
- cut largest Layering Circles scallop from the Fresh Fig layer
- cut the 2nd larges Layering Circles circle from the Soft Seafoam layer
- adhere Fresh Fig layer to card base, Soft Seafoam layer to Fresh Fig and the DSP layer to the Soft Seafoam layer.
- Adhere Fresh Fig scallop circle to card front, I put mine more to the left than centered
- with dimensionals add the Soft Seafoam circle to the Fresh Fig
- stamp the little dog onto the Whisper White piece with memento black ink and then cut out with the Largest Stitched Shape circle.  Color the dog with the Stampin Blends.  Adhere to Soft Seafoam circle with dimensionals
- sprinkle some sequins around dog and on your sentiment
- stamp sentiment on scrap white with Fresh Fig ink.  I used the Tailored Tag punch to make the banner end

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Retirement card

Good morning!  My share today is a fun retirement card.  My hubby works for the US Post Office and one of his co-workers is retiring and having a party this evening.  I told him I would make a card and he suggested a mail truck.  Well that got my wheels a spinning and this is what I came up with.  I started with a Whisper White rectangle, rounded the corners and then hand cut the front of the truck.  I used my 1" circle punch to make the wheel wells and the tires are punched using the 3/4" circle punch.  The side window was made using the 1" square punch.  I added a couple of strips of Real Red and Night of Navy card stock.  My little logo was hand drawn with the new White Chalk Marker (love this marker).  The greeting is made with the stamp sets Yippee Skippee (pg 37 #131341w or #131344c) and Teeny Tiny Wishes (pg 44 #128748w or 127802c).  My Real Red background piece was embossed with the Stylish Stripes embossing folder found in the Holiday mini on page 22 #132174.

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