Get Well STSC09 Challenge

I meant to post this yesterday but I never did. I am having some thoughts of not doing my blog anymore. I wonder if it is taking up too much time. I do enjoy sharing though so If you come sometime and its not here its because I decided my Gallery at SCS is enough for me right now.

On to the card. Amanda had this great sketch on SCS STSC 09. I loved her card and what she did with it so I wanted to give it a try. Then Mel's father had a birthday and Heart surgery with in a few days of each other, he is recovering and doing great but I decided to combine my efforts and do this card. I think it turned out well, but could have been more masculine if I had some small trucks, or tractors or things to go in the oval.

I knew that I wanted to use this ribbon I picked up at a LSS in my area, its a by the yard piece and I think this is the last little bit of it I had. I used Chocolate Chip to stamp Get Well Soon form Sincere Salutations. I decided I wanted to mat just the ends to ad a bit more of the Not Qite Navy. I used my textile embossing folder in my cuttlebug to emboss the textured Chocolate cardstock and that is how I was going to leave the card. It seems my brain completely left out the nice little oval piece when I recalled the sketch.

Once I found their was a small oval to add, I looked through my stamps to find a small picture to fit and I came up with this rose bud from Bothway Blossoms. I used my QuiKuts dies to cut the book plate ovals and then used mini turquoise Queen Co Brads from Making waves to hold the pieces together. I wanted to draw out another color from the ribbon. I am really pleased with how it turned out. the image was stamped with Timber Brown StazOn and I used my Water Color Wonder Crayons to paint the image, I used Taked with Teal and Tempting Turquoise & old Olive which I dabbed off a bit of the extra fluid to make the color muted. Then mounted the oval over the sentiment on Dimensionals.

Until Later... Happy Stamping!