Fond Farewells

Fond Farewells

Hi there!

What do retired people do

all day?  All the ones I know

are frantically rushing about

cramming into each day

all the things they always

dreamed of .............

Ah yes, time to 

celebrate ............

.......and to get us started

here's Claire Jackson

with a delightful

 retirement card

"The time to wine down stamp designed by

 Francoise Read for Woodware 

is perfect for collage. 

Together with the new sets of mini archival inks,

 which are great for stamping on glossy surfaces,

 this stamp was crying out to be used on acetate 

for a retirement card.

First I created a background by swooshing

 broken china and peeled paint Distress Oxide inks 

on a craft mat, spritzing with water and dipping 

the card into the ink.

 I kept dipping the card into the ink until

 I had the layers I wanted, with some white 

still visible. 

I also added a few tiny spatters of cactus flower 

archival ink.

Next I stamped the image twice on heat resistant 

acetate, once in leaf green and once in 

cactus flower and heat set it. 

I also stamped it once more on white card

 and completely dried the background 

before stamping it for the final time

 in watering can ink. 

I used a stamp positioner as it is quite 

a large stamp and it really helped to 

stamp it twice to get a dark image and

 catch the bits I missed first time.

I cut the glasses and tall bottle from the

 pink sheet and the round bottle from the 

green sheet. 

I rubbed the cactus flower ink pad over

 the reverse of the pink images,

 wiping off the top part of the glasses, 

before heat setting it.

 I repeated it with the green bottle

 and the leaf green.

From the white card I cut out the labels 

and coloured them with pencil. 

While the cheese, leaf and corkscrew were 

coloured in fossilised amber Distress Ink.

Once all the hard work was done I could 

layer up the pieces, gluing them down 

with glossy accents. 

I added cactus flower enamel accents 

to the grapes, a few white highlights

 with a paint pen and a light shadow 

with a grey pencil.

Although not quite ready for retirement,

 it is time to put my feet up, sit back

 and relax I think!"

Materials used:

Woodware clear stamp: time to wine down

Archival mini ink pad: set 2

Smooth stamping card: white

Woodware heat resistant clear acetate:

Ranger enamel accents – Wendy Vecchi: cactus flower

Ranger glossy accents

white paint pen

Card blank: 7” x 5”

Thanks Claire, those Woodware

stamps really lend themselves

to some great techniques don't they?

Anyone running Retirement Training

Courses?  

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx