Happy Retirment

When a dear friend and neighbor asked me to make a retirement card for her about a month ago, I totally forgot.  Talk about feeling terrible.  So I had to make this card up more quickly than I like to.  My mind lately is on a totally different aspect of life and it's been a little hectic for me so I turned to one of my favorite challenge sites for inspiration, Mojo Monday.  They had a perfect sketch to go with the digital stamp I wanted to use from The Cutting Cafe called--what else--Happy Retirment.  I started with a base card of white cardstock and added a blue mat.  My patterned paper is Authentique and under it I added a punched border.  A small scrap of blue that I trimmed with my square punch to get the points and embellished with a small piece of polka dot ribbon and a white flower with a button center finished the card off.