Card Making: Slow Down

I have a colleague who is retiring. This is a special person, who has become a friend over the passage of time. I wished to send her off with an equally special card that would convey the sentiments of bottling the time keepers and slowing life down, but not so much that you cannot still enjoy it. We pull together a couple of interesting elements on today's card, which makes it a tactile card to enjoy.

I start the project on one of these index cards.

I paint the sides of the card with Dala Student Acrylic Paint in Raw Sienna.

Then I cut a piece of corrugated cardboard to fit inside the index card.

I use double-sided tape to adhere the pieces together.

It now looks like this.

I ink the edges of the index card with Tim Holtz Distress Ink.

I also ink the raised areas of the corrugated cardboard.

I then glue two wooden embellishments to the cardboard with Tombow glue.

I cut a speech bubble from some leftover paper in my scrap paper stash.

I ink the speech bubble.

I then use a Pigma pen to write the sentiment in the speech bubble: 'Slow down to a brisk walk.'

The completed index card looks like this. I am now ready to mount it on a proper card.

I find a green A4 sheet of cardboard to use as a card.

I use a bone-folder to fold the card in half.

I use double-sided tape to glue the index card to the green card.

I then add a fun Washi tape border.

I will use this stamp set from Creative talents, along with Tim Holtz Distress Ink, to stamp a mason jar on the card.

I use a Chiswick Stamp Mount to stamp with.

I use the time piece from this Creative Talents stamp set to stamp inside the mason jar.

I added a second strip of Washi tape and then the card was finished.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/hP8lIHfFilY

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