Let It Ride – Happy Retirement

Design Time: Facebook’s Case-ing Tuesday (#511) CASE-Ing Challenge where we copy and selectively edit a card found within Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogs.  Today?  The card can be found on page 134 of the May 2025 – Apr 2026 Annual Catalog.

Two challenges influenced my design choices today: Festive Friday (#183) with a list of particular elements and you must choose a minimum of three and Facebook’s As You See It (#347)* with a specific Recipe of Theme, Tools, Materials and Technique.

I am also sharing this card with Love To Craft (#86) Anything Goes.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Pecan Pie cardstock.
• Background Panel: (4” x 5¼”) Basic Beige cardstock dry-embossed with the Plaster Painting 3D Embossing Folder, an On-Line Exclusive product.
• Vertical Cross Strip: (1⅞” x 5¼”) Cajun Craze / Pecan Pie Plaid patterned piece of paper from the Timeless Plaid Designer Series Paper pack, available On-Line.
• Accent Trim: (¾” x 3⅜”) Crumb Cake cardstock.
• Frame: (4¼” X 5½”) Cajun Craze cardstock die-cut with the Double Frame die from the Gallery Blooms Dies set.  Smaller Frame chosen (2⅝” x 4⅜”) dry-embossed with the Timber 3D Embossing Folder, still available but on the Last Chance List.
• Frame Inset: (4¼” x 5½”) Basic Beige cardstock, also die-cut with the Double Frame die.
  • The Galloping Horse and Grass image from the retired Let It Ride stamp set was stamped with retired Soft Suede ink onto the Inset (1⅝” x 3⅜”) piece and colored with the Light and Dark Pecan Pie and the Light Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Blends Markers.  A few details were added back in with my Fine-Tipped Black Liquid Gel Pen.
• Sentiment: Mossy Meadow cardstock scrap.
  • The sentiment, Happy Retirement, from the Sunrise Sailing stamp set, also an On-Line Exclusive product, was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with White Embossing Powder and then fussy-cut with Paper Snips.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  (9”) of retired Old Olive Linen Twine was tied in a knot around the Crumb Cake Accent Trim, completing the card.

A super masculine retirement card.  

I am looking forward to seeing your project based on this week’s sketch.

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

Note* – Until the As You See It Blog site is back up and running.

Need a card? Ask me and I can create one for you.  Want the supplies to create your own, let me know and I can help you with that too!

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