As I previously mentioned, my job has been outsourced and I’m serving my three months of notice. My last day is tomorrow. An unexpectedly large number of people have taken me out for lunch even though there was a big farewell luncheon of twenty plus people a couple of weeks ago. Rather than just send a blanket email to thank them, I decided to write them cards. I made a number of copies of the following card:

This is the epitome of a clean and simple card. It’s also very easy to mass produce – I know, I made a dozen yesterday morning before work! This is using Stampin’ Up!’s For All Things stamp set – this was a set that I thought that I could do without until I went to my upline Jen’s house for a class and we made a card with it. It certainly is great for producing a quick thank you card.

I used very vanilla as the base and the top mat ( sized at 3.5″ by 4.75″) with the early espresso a quarter inch larger than the top mat in the middle. This gave a wider mat between the early espresso and the usual sized base which gives a different effect from quarter inches between each layer. I used crumb cake for the water colour stamp with early espresso on top. The THANKS is from the same set although there is more to that stamp so I used my stampin’ write marker in early espresso to colour just the word thanks. After this it was a simple matter of constructing the card and then I used an embossing folder to add interest to the envelope. As I mentioned recently, embossing the envelopes appears to be rather addictive.

When I ran out of early espresso after a few cards, I swapped it out for soft suede which also worked very well.