I’ve mentioned a couple of times that my job was being outsourced and that I chose not to move to the outsourcing company. This meant saying farewell to a large number of people that I’ve been working with over the last ten years although I of course mean to keep in contact with a lot of them. I’ve worked with Matt on the global time and expense application for the past couple of years and have been awed by the amount of coffee that he can (and does) drink. When I saw Stampin’ Up!’s set Perfect Blend – and when my sister brought it over with her on her visit – I had to make this card to say farewell to Matt!

I stamped the coffee cup on a piece of scrap and cut it out. Then I stamped the first cup at the bottom right hand corner of my very vanilla mat in soft suede. I drew a pencil line so that I could put the bottom left hand corner of the cup on it to keep things lined up (or more or less anyway). Using my mask that I’d just cut out, I covered the first cup and stamped a second cup, putting the left hand side corner of the cup on the pencil line. I did this again another eight times to get the long line of coffee cups! I stamped the sentiment in cajun craze and then adhered the very vanilla to a cajun craze base. I dry embossed the flap of the envelope to finish it off.