Happy Retirement Birthday

Today is Bret's birthday and celebrating his retirement soon due to his age and couldn't wait! I made his this card as I had been meaning to use this product by HA.

For the card base used Recollections 110 lb. white cardstock, the black cardstock is Core’dinations 65 lb. and the white cardstock is Accent Opaque Digital International Paper 80 lb. cover smooth white cardstock. 

I started by die cutting 3 layers of the white cs with bee florals window fancy die by HA and one layer with the black cs. With the one in black also die cut it with Cindy Echtinaw Designs Card Creator Perfect Layers A and glued to a layer of white die cut with infinity nested rectangle die set by HA and then mounted to an A2 card base, set aside then the other two of the layers that had been die cut with the white cs cut around and mounted on the black cs the third one I used the color layering stencil set to add the color with Tim Holtz distress inks for the big flowers seedless preserves, for the small flowers fired brick, leaves mowed lawn, branches ground espresso, bees fossilized amber & black soot also added for all the wings of the bees added some Spectrum Noir sparkle Crystal clear glitter brush finally cut this piece also and added to the other pieces; for message used beyond happy stamp set by PinkFresh Studio with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink and coordinating die used a total of 5 dies. To embellished used clear iridescent drops by PinkFresh Studio