A man can’t retire his experience

Sharing a quick card I made for someone retiring from work featuring a bit of embossing and a sentiment from a retired Kraftin’ Kimmie set.

I’ve used the current sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches for my layout.  I created the circle element using one of Tim’s Embossing Diffusers and one of his Texture Fades.  I was really struggling for ideas for this card but clocks and time always seem a good idea for retirements and you can’t help but love Tim’s clocks.

My Texture Fade gave me one kind of embossing (dry) and I added the second (wet) through embossing of my sentiment.  So I’ve well and truly covered the theme to enter my card in the current challenge at Crafty Friends.  I realised I didn’t have any retirement sentiments but thought this one from Kraftin’ Kimmie’s Bessie Bus Stop set suited.

For my colour scheme I took inspiration from The Paper Players, where Anne Marie put together a great palette.  I used the Crumb Cake to ink over my embossing and the Blackberry Bliss for my stamping.  Have to say it’s such a dark ink it almost looks like black.  Added the Mint Macaron with my coloured cardstock mat.  My extra colour is silver I have in my embellies, unless you count the base white.  Raided my stash for the embellies with another clock, some game spinners and a brad from Tim’s Idea-ology range.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz ~ Embossing Diffusers

Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Texture Fades ~ Pocket Watches

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Fasteners ~ Dapper

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings ~ Game Spinners & Time Pieces

Inks & Paints etc

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Blackberry Bliss & Crumb Cake

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Mint Macaron

Stamps

Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps ~ Bessie Bus Stop (retired) sentiment

Challenges

Crafty Friends #92

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