Stampin' Up! Colorful Seasons

Happy Friday, peeps and I hope you are looking forward to a great weekend.

My inspiration came from Leanne Johnson and I finally got around to creating the retirement card. The dinner for our pastor and his wife was Wednesday night but I had to cancel due to my back problem. So, here's the card I will get off in the mail to them today.

My card base is Thick Whisper White. I used a mat of Designer Paper from the Coastal Escape pad by KaiserCraft that looks like a beach and the sea. I adhered it to the card front BEFORE I realized I wanted the linen thread on it! Ugh!! But it is what it is!!! Since we are at the beach and "splish splashing" even though it's not in the tub with Bobby Darin, we can splish splash at Double Trouble Paper Crafting #26, Thing 1. If you haven't visited this blog and challenge, you are really missing out!

The sentiment is from Colorful Seasons and I stamped it with Versamark and heat embossed it with Copper Emboss Powder. I'm so pleased that my iPhone captured the "glow". It doesn't usually. That particular stamp set came out in 2017 so I'm playing again at Retro Rubber Challenge #109 with the "Anything Goes" theme.

I cut out two Adirondack chairs that can sub as beach chairs...very versatile, you know! They are cut from Bermuda Bay card stock with the Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies. I gave the tops a little lift by bending them with my bone folder. I only glued the bottoms to the patterned paper.

For the inside, I printed out the bible verse from the challenge at Word Art Wednesday. You don't have to use the verse for the challenge, but I wanted to. This verse is the King James Version. I loved the font that WAW used.

I am partial to the New American Standard Bible, which reads: "The generous man will be prosperous. And he who waters will himself be watered." Pastor AND his wife have done that for years and they have both watered my soul, especially while Perry was so ill and after his death. They are a very special couple and I hope they will take time to relax before they go on to something new. They love cruises but for their retirement vacation, they are going on a safari...but not at Disney World! May they be refreshed and showered with many blessings for the generosity of their time in ministry and genuine love for people.

I adhered a mat of Bermuda Bay to the inner card base. Then I adhered the sentiment mat to that BEFORE I remembered I wanted to stamp a palm tree! I'm Quick Draw McGraw today! So, Stamparatus to the rescue! I also could have used my retired Stamp-a-ma-jig to line things up. I used the palm tree from the Beach Happy stamp set, which will be retiring in May. I stamped off once for the trunk and the fronds so it wouldn't detract from the verse. I used Pear Pizzazz and Crumb Cake.

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Partial Product List:

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set [143726] $27.00	Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies [143751] $33.00	Beach Happy Photopolymer Stamp Set [148585] $17.00
Stamparatus [146276] $49.00	Linen Thread [104199] $5.00

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