A Farewell Gift For Kevin

Time to make a retirement gift for one of our Directors at work - he is like the Dad of the company , his door is always open , there for help and advice whether its work related or not - to say he will be missed is an understatement. I've worked with him for near 12 years and I have to say he is one of the nicest bosses I've had - he will be a great loss to the company.

I wanted to make a folded book creation with the company name on so that it can go on his book case and he can look at it every day and not forgot all those he has left behind still working, whilst he goes off on holidays and enjoying life - do I sound jealous - YES.

The folded wording part was relatively easy following an alphabet chart and creating each letter - the hardest part of this is finding a book with the right number of pages.

The part I enjoy the most is decorating the outer cover. I wanted to incorporate the Company logo on the back cover , so using my Brother Scan n Cut machine, I imported the Compnany logo image and after a slight tidy up of edges in Brother Scan N Cut Canvas on line software , was ready to cut from both white and dark blue card stock. I then fixed the blue wording and house shape into the white section, this was then matted and layered onto blue card stock. 

The spine wording was cut on my other electric cutting machine, using the welding feature to connect all the letters.  Photo corners were cut and attached to all eight corners and a shaped section was attached to the top and bottom of the spine. 

 The front cover of the book I wanted to create a retirement acoustic , I found this nice one on the Internet which I thought was perfect. This was printed and cut on my hand cutting machine and matted onto a blue section, this was repeated again on a large cut shape, both were attached to the front of the card using a combination of both double sided tape and 1mm 3d foam pad.

A section of decorative ribbon (a measuring tape) was fixed to the lower section of the book and fixed across both the front and the back covers using strong double sided tape. The main sections created, font spine and back cover were then all fixed to the book using double side tape.

Finally I decided to raid our bits and bobs draw for screws and bolts to add as embellishments. Blue organza ribbon was tied around the bolts. To fix the screws , a small circle was cut from blue card, white organza ribbon was threaded through and tied around the card and the screw. All embellishments where fixed using a hot glue gun. 

Happy Retirement Kevin - don't forget us ..........