Freshly Made Sketches 267 and a Happy Retirement

Happy Wednesday everyone :)

We have an abstractor at work who has retired and we are having his luncheon this coming Friday, so I wanted to create him a special card.  I recently used a Freshly Made sketch, so knew I had to go back and try the one for this week.  This is the sketch and even though I can't enter this in the competition (it's not really a clean card pursuant to the requirements), I really liked this sketch, so continued on.

and here is my creation using this sketch:

I really enjoyed stepping out of my box creating this card and it's a masculine card, which is always a challenge for me.  I don't use texture paste much, but I have to keep reminding myself how much fun it is to use.

I hope everyone is having a great week and I hope to be back soon.

Thanks

Janet

Supplies:

Cardstock:  Neenah dessert storm 

Patterned paper:  Paper Loft Hooked on Fishing

Stamps:  Paper Smooches Simply Said "best wishes", Stampin Up Teeny Tiny Wishes, Stampin Up Touches of Texture; Stampin Up The Open Sea

Ink:  Stampin Up Early Espresso, Stampin Up River Road, Distress Ink gathered twigs, Distress Ink vintage photo

Accessories:  We R Memory Keepers hole punch; LawnFawn baker's twine; Tim Holtz stapler; Stampin Up oval punch; Tim Holtz texture paste;