There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want

I’m sharing a card I made for a colleague who is retiring featuring some rusty watches courtesy of the Time Pieces stamp from Docrafts.

I’ve rusted up my watches after seeing all the inspiration over at Country View Challenges for their current rust theme.  Got to say I love the rusty effect, best I’ve achieved to date.  To make sure my paper would stand up to the rusting I used Yupo and created a metallic background with alcohol inks (my Copic Various Inks as I don’t have any grey in Tim’s alcohol inks).

Alcohol inks are my ‘choice’ to make up the third element for the current CAS Mix Up challenge.  Got my stamping covered with the watches and the inlaid die-cutting with the ‘congrats’ sentiment.  I didn’t have a die for a retirement so teamed this with some printed words (no retirement stamps either).  In hindsight I think I should have swapped out the diecut for one in another colour so it would actually stand out, as it is, it’s quite hard to actually see the ‘congrats’.

The layout of my card follows the current sketch over at Fusion.  I’ve just used the sketch this time as this card is going to a male so a bouquet of flowers wasn’t appropriate.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear

Twiddleybitz ~ Rusting Powder

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Clearly Besotted Die ~ CBDCO064 Congrats Word

Inks & Paints etc

Copic Various Inks ~ N1, N3, N5

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Blending Solution & Silver Mixative

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing & Hickory Smoke

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Black

Creative Memories Cardstock ~ Silver

Yupo ~ 200gsm White

Stamps

Docrafts ~ Time Pieces

Challenges

CAS Mix Up ~ Stamping + Inlaid die-cutting + Your choice

Country View ~ Rust

Fusion ~ Truck Bouquet

Thanks for stopping by!