Steve's Leaving Card

My hubby had asked me to make a leaving card for a work colleague so that everyone could sign it. It had to be a large size as there were many messages so I did it A4 size. Now for anyone who has never made an A4 card believe me it is hard to fill all that space up!

I'd had this idea to use speech bubbles for people to sign so went searching on the tinterweb for some suitable clip art. For the inside I wanted to make it fairly uniform just just used 2 rectangular ones and alternated them in a chequerboard fashion. For the outside I made a central frame with the message inside and added many other shapes of speech bubbles to the outside. The frame had star shapes on it in white so to add a bit of interest I used Papermania Brads to decorate it and add a bit of colour and texture.

Paul said my card was well received by everyone who signed it but more importantly Steve liked it too. He is going to be very much missed but we wish him good luck in his new job :)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical order) :

• Allsorts #111 - Free & Easy
• Aud's Sentiments #32 - At least 2 words in sentiment
• Crafter's Companion #14 - One for the Boys
• Cupcake Craft Challenge #150 - Old Challenge #80 One for the boys
• Deep Ocean Challenge #3 - Cards
• Digi's With Attitude #32 - Anything Goes
• Meljen's Designs #66 - 2 layers or less
• Paper Crafting Journey #14 - For Him
• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
• Quirky Crafts #14 - Make Your Own Patterned Paper
• Squigglefly #106 - Use some Brads (plus the speech bubble in the bottom Left Hand corner is a Squigglefly freebie)

Folding Book For Colleague

Our work colleague Sam (the gorgeous blonde on the 3rd picture) is leaving Amtrak and my hubby has worked with her for over 6 years and asked me if I could make something special for her as a leaving card.

I wanted to do something different, but didn't know what. I was browsing through the Docrafts gallery and found a folding book that Joanna Wolska had uploaded and she said she had instructions on her blog . A couple of clicks away and I knew exactly what I was going to do.

Joanna is Polish but her instructions are in English too and were very easy to follow. I had a practice with paper first. I am glad I decided to do that as I felt it needed to be larger and opted to make one with a finished size of 12.5 cm square. I am delighted with how the book came out, it took a lot of putting together (getting suitable photos and even having to take some to get the workmates together) but I felt it was worth it. They are presenting it to her on Tuesday when she leaves.

The papers used in the book have been an assortment from my stash from K & Co, Papermania and Dovecraft. I have embellished pages using ribbons, Papermania peeloffs, fabric sticker, metallic stickers cardstock stickers and silk flowers. I have also used Prima flowers and the centres are 3d metallic squashy dots that I got from Paperchase yesterday. They are ideal for when you need detail without adding bulk like brads or gems do. The triangular sections each house a tag which has been embellished with ribbons and eyelets. These have given an a lots of individual, double sided areas for people to write messages. When I made it I thought there might be too many but in the end some people had to 'overflow' onto the pages.


The box was embellished with a die cut K & Co Frame, Primas, Paperchase gems and Chipboards letters with Liquid Pearls dots.

I have also entered this into 2 challenges on Just Bex for a project using lots of ribbons and also one where an element is painted in some way.

Below is a slideshow of all the pages.