Enjoy Retirement Card: a wisteria garden for your next chapter

Enjoy Retirement Card shows Enjoy Your Retirement in golden script above a short note about the start of a time to relax and reflect on your hard work. The words are gentle rather than jokey, so they say what a long career deserves. This card is for someone who has earned a slower pace and wants to be reminded of it, and for the friend or coworker who is about to set down the workload.

Ships with a kraft envelope; envelope color in photo may vary.

The design in detail

Drooping clusters of lilac wisteria fill the top of the card and hang over a weathered wooden arbor with a diamond lattice. Below, a small white metal table with curling filigree legs sits in soft shadow on a pale stone patio. Pink and peach roses peek out at the lower right corner, and a single lavender heart floats beneath the text. The watercolor style keeps every flower soft and loose, so the scene feels like a quiet garden in early summer. The text is set in dark navy with the words relax and reflect and work picked out in gold, which draws the eye down the message in order. The whole picture reads as a place to sit down and rest.

When it gets used

A coworker who has worked the same job for decades is likely to notice the table and the wisteria first, then read the gold script. Use it when you sign the card at the office on a last day, or when a retiring teacher, nurse or engineer opens it at a farewell lunch. Friends and relatives who will spend their new free time in a garden will also appreciate the scene. Enjoy Retirement Card works well alongside a gift, or on its own when you want to say that the hard work was seen.

Good occasions

Retirement is the obvious moment, whether it is a party, a last shift or a quiet send off. It also fits a going away card when someone is changing jobs for a slower pace. Tuck it into a gift of tea, a book or garden tools for a pleasant surprise. The card comes as a greeting card in a red envelope, ready to write in.