Cecilia's Cards: Farewell

Monday, 24 February 2014

Masculine Farewell Card

It is sad at work when Voluntary Departure Packages are offered and quite often, some of our fellow colleagues who have been there for over 20 years take them. This week in our department at work, we say goodbye to 4 colleagues, some of whom I have worked closely with in the past. They are all leaving at the end of this week and there are lots of farewell lunches, afternoon teas and dinners. Well hey, guess what? I've been asked to make some of these cards. Here is one for a colleague I have worked with when I was in the laboratory three years ago. I used the colours of the current Color Throwdown #280, the vanilla being the cardstock colour and the PTI Love Potion stampset which was quite appropriate for my work! This card is A4 sized! Thanks for popping by!

Ingredients
Neenah cardstock, Papertrey Ink Love Potion and Folk Art, Hero Arts Pool, Green Hills and Navy, Ranger Archival Jet Black, My Minds Eyes Enamel dots.

Saturday, 21 April 2012

Farewell for Rose

The only challenge for this card is what and how. I often make A4 sized cards for people at work. Rose has been with us since 1979 and she had a personal tragedy this year followed by news of a terminal illness. She has decided to leave us after so many years at work. I decided to find a paper that had beautiful roses to match her name and go from there. As I didn't want this to be a 'Farewell' card as such, as we do want to see her again, I decided to use the Technique Tuesday - Talking in circles stamp set for the sentiment. It did not take me long to pick the appropriate words. We had a farewell lunch for her yesterday. When she saw the sentiment, she looked at me and said 'Thank You, the words are perfect!' They reflected how she sees life at the moment, day to day.

Paper - Kaisercraft Sweet Nothings
Stamp - Technique Tuesday - Talking in Circles
Ink - Memento Tuxedo black, Distress Ink Gathered Wood
Others - Spellbinders scallop dies, silk ribbon, Hero Hues Gem

I thought I would also include another card made two months ago for Rose again - this was an A4 Sympathy card for Rose. I wanted this to be a cheery card, so I added bright yellow ribbons to the card. Thank you for dropping by.