To Everything A Season

In my twenties, I attended weddings and baby showers.  In my thirties, it was graduations and housewarmings.  The forties were surprise birthday parties and surprise baby showers!  Now comes the season of

RETIREMENT PARTIES!

 

 

So the time has come to expand my selection of Retirement cards.  Hard to be happy and funny when the people you've worked with for decades and lived with 9 hours a day are leaving. 

 

Oh, sure, we'll get together and have lunch or maybe a reunion party once a year, but it's not going to be the same anymore. 

 

Yes, they will be footloose and fancy free, but I'll still be chained to my desk with all the Youngsters!  Don't get me wrong.  I like them plenty - but it just won't be the same.

 

Bring up the Beatles in a musical reference and you get blank looks!  Talk about how we used to file our nails so we could type on a typewriter (huh?) or how we used to spend hours uncurling the phone cord (phones had a cord?).  Playing records on the phonograph and black and white TV - well, I must be talking in another language.

 

Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!  Now I'm going to be the Old Lady!

 

A Whole New Category

I received a request that I was stumped to fill - Love cards!  Why don't I have any Love cards?  Well, here's a start.

I'm starting off with some serious cards and some fun ones.

Like this fun guy who states that he's "Bananas about you!"

And it helps to pull ideas from cards in other categories.  This design is from the Birthday cards.

But others, like this butterfly, are new designs.

This started its life as a Valentine's card.

After finding a bird silhouette I liked, this card was made quickly.

Love the color spectrum!

"When shared with you!"

"than bacon!"  The perfect guy card!

Finally found a card to be able to use this "ribbon" - small metal dots on a mesh.  Glad I thought of it!

So, now I need to make room in my carousels for the new Love Collection! 

Sproing!

I've been having so much fun with the cartoon cards (see previous post) that I've gone over the top!  I've added a spring to the back of the print & cut and attached it to the card base.  So when the card comes out of the envelope, it goes SPROING!

This is the first one that inspired the design.  I used thin wire that I coiled around a bottle neck to create the spring.  Then I just taped it to the back of the Print & Cut and also to the card base.

This big elephant was so huge that I'd thought it would be funny to have it springing off the page!

 

And this cute doggie looks like his tail is wagging his whole body - very cute!

And finally, the cupcake just dares you to take a bite!  BTW, the latin is translated inside and says "Seize the day, seize the night, seize the CAKE!" 

 

Here is a pic of the spring attachment.  I'm still thinking of how to better refine this.  I'm sure the Print & Cut will eventually fall off the card - hopefully long after the card has sent its message!

 

 

 

Of course, all the cutting and pen work was done with my Pazzles Inspiration.  None of this would be possible without that wonderful device!