Happy Retirement for FabFri107

I needed a quick-and-easy retirement card this week.  When I ran downstairs to make it, I realized it would fit perfectly with the FabFriday challenge that launches today.  Yay!  I, somehow, turned that quick-and-easy idea into a fun cardmaking session.  I reached to four new products from Stampin’ Up!’s 2017 Occasions Catalog – Urban Underground Specialty Designer Series Paper, Happy Celebrations, Milestone Moments and Urban Underground Embellishments.  What fun!  Here’s my card:

Here’s the banner for the challenge that inspired my card:

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

• Sentiment Combo.  You know how much I love to combine a bold, printed sentiment with a beautifully scripted one.  I’ve used Happy Celebrations several times over the past couple of weeks – I love the big, bold words and the fun watercolor shapes that make up this stamp set.  Let’s just say this – I love everything about this stamp set:
  

  Happy Celebrations, Stampin’ Up!

  For today’s card, I paired the fun “HAPPY” from Happy Celebrations with “retirement” from Milestone Moments.  That really clicked the “love” button for me.  I love the scripted look of this sentiment that doesn’t quite fit with the other words in the set (there are only a FEW people who can enjoy a “second retirement” or “third retirement.”  Right?

  

  Milestone Moments, Stampin’ Up!

• A Unique Banner.  While Mindy’s fun sketch for this challenge includes a doily beneath the focal panel, I couldn’t make the doily work with the decidedly-not-soft card I was creating.  I decided to play with this element and make a fun, unique banner.  Can you tell what I used to create the two layers the form the banner beneath the sentiment panel?  You’re right (even if you didn’t guess, I’m confident you would have gotten there)!  I used the long, zig-zagged edge of the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits to crop these banners.
• Rich Color Combination.  My initial plan was to use Delightful Dijon, Basic Black and Basic Gray for this card.  I switched gears when I decided I needed a lighter – but still earthy – solution.  Crumb Cake gave me just what I needed to balance out the deep yellow and black.  If you like this color combination, too, please save this:

Stamp Sets:  Happy Celebrations, Milestone Memories  Papers:  Urban Underground Designer Series Paper, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Very Vanilla  Inks:  Delightful Dijon, Archival Basic Black  Accessories:  Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies, Urban Underground Embellishments, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Happy Celebrations Photopolymer Stamp Set – 143012

Price: $35.00

Milestone Moments Photopolymer Stamp Set – 142954

Price: $21.00

Urban Underground Specialty Designer Series Paper – 142783

Price: $13.00

Urban Underground Embellishments – 142786

Price: $6.50

Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies – 137547

Price: $40.00

Crumb Cake 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 120953

Price: $8.00

Basic Black 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 121045

Price: $8.00

Delightful Dijon Classic Stampin’ Pad – 138327

Price: $6.50

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad – 140931

Price: $7.00

Supply List

I hope you’ll pop over to the FabFriday site to see the cards by the design team members and to play along with this week’s challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

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