FWF and a Happy Retirement card

Friday, friday. Time for Friends with Flair fun. If you're looking for inspiration, you can find the blog hop HERE (check it throughout the day because new links are constantly being added).

A colleague of dh's is retiring and moving to California to be closer to his kids so I put together a little easel card for him with Unity's A Little Destination stamp set. I was able to use the plane's banner to customize it with his name, and the signs had room for me to customize also. I jazzed up the labels on the suitcase, too. I wanted more than just a blue sky for the plane to be flying through so I used postcard paper that I had laying around and more of that DCWV green bling paper from the Songbird stack.

The fun continues inside the card. DH's office took up a collection and wanted to include a gift certificate to Golfsmith so I alluded to the colleague's retirement plans by adding the cute vintage golf clubs and made the journaling square a pocket that can hold the gift card as well as provide a ledge for the easel card to stand with. I'm hoping it will be a fond remembrance of the friends he's leaving behind.

Thanks for dropping by... always good to have you....

I'm germinating more ideas for cards, including one which will use a recent Ippity purchase, so check back.....

*smile*

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)