When one retires, that’s when their hobbies take center stage! Check out this knitting bouquet full of yarn and wish someone a ‘happy retirement’.
Today Shelly is bringing us a fun and snarky, laugh out loud retirement card. We all need a good laugh at times! We love how she colored up our “Loops of Love” set in bold colors, mixed with bright blooms. Such a great design that is sure to put a smile on someone’s face. Follow along as Shelly shows us how to make a knitted bouquet retirement card.
- Start with white paper that is marker friendly.
- Stamp on the images (bouquet, yarn ball (2x), and yarn heart) from the 38007 Loops of Love stamp set using black ink.
- Color images using alcohol markers.
- Use the 38007D Loops of Love coordinating die with the colored images.
- Set aside.
- Using an A2 piece of speckled cardstock (light cream), die cut an arch in the center using the 5802-05D Nested Dash Dot Arches die.
- Remove the die cut piece and set aside.
- Using the die cut cardstock panel, stamp on ‘congartulations’ using the 37047 Happy Retirement stamp set using black ink. *Note: you want to ‘curve’ the stamp to fit over the arch.
- Using the 37047 Happy Retirement stamp set, stamp on the ‘quitter’ sentiment to the bottom of the arch using black ink.
- Take an A2 card base and adhere the stamped panel onto the card base.
- Adhere the inside die cut arch to the center of the card base.
- Adhere the colored and die cut bouquet to the center of the arch/card.
- Adhere on the colored and die cut yarn balls and yarn heart to bottom right corner of the card.
- Add gems.
Products used: 37047 Happy Retirement stamp set, 38007 Loops of Love stamp set, 38007D Loops of Love coordinating die set, 5802-05D Nested Dash Dot Arches die set.