Pink Wishing you Well

Pink and Brown - great colour combo!! 

I made this card specifically to use that cute rose stamp at the bottom!  It is a gift from a blogland friend of mine Susanne!!  She sent it in a challenge package and I just had to make good use of it! 

This set from Papertrey Ink, Everyday Classics (2nd anniversary set) has not seen nearly enough ink!  I need to fix that!  This particular sentiment bugs me ... the W in the little tiny word "well" is hard to see and I think it kind of looks like a letter H....... eeeks!!

Well, I'm done here ..... see you all tomorrow!!

Donelda

Orange Teapot Get Well

  I finally got this card finished for the Hot Beverage challenge over on Gingersnap Creations blog.

Tea Pot (Tea for Two, Papertrey Ink) and Tea Cup (Everyday Classics, Papertrey Ink) were stamped with Spiced Marmalade (Distress Ink, Ranger) and cut.  I adhered them atop of a label (which is traced from a beer bottle label) with the cup up on dimensionals.

That was then adhered to the designer paper (BasicGrey).  A few orange rhinstones were adhered to eaither side of the sentiment for some bling-y-ness.

Off to see what others did with this theme.

Enjoy your day.
Donelda

Get Well Cards - various

So, I had made a bunch of Get Well Cards for a friend. Her parents are at that age where they have lots of sick friends...so she wanted a bunch!!

Here are two of them. Check out the spots on my frog....get it.. the frog is sick, he has spots!! I thought it was hilarious...but no one else seemed to get it.

And this other one is a sweet get well card. I saw this Happy Hopper at a LSS and fell in love with him. I hope you are feeling good today! Thanks for taking time to drop in to see what I am up to!!

Donelda

A Rose is a Rose....

Here are some cards I created using the rose image from Garden of Life. Some are sympathy and some are get well. I really like the ones with the tearing - such a simple but effective look for sympathy cards. I also really like the result of the demask design stamp on the green background cardstock. I was also playing around with my new to me Guide Lines 2 set making some background paper.

Supplies: Stamps - Garden of Life, Guide Lines 2, Background Basics: Retro, Demask Designs (all Papertrey Ink); Cardstock - Mellow Moss, Whisper White, Cameo Coral (Stampin' Up!); Ink - Cameo Coral, Mellow Moss, Ruby Red (Stampin' Up!); Other - Berry Sorbet twill (Papertrey Ink); dimensionals, corner rounder, Select White and Berry Sorbet satin ribbon (Papertrey Ink), decorative scissors (Provo Craft).

Thanks for dropping in today! Have a great one!!

Donelda

Color Challenge with some interesting colors

I don't usually do the color challenges on Splitcoaststampers since I rarely have all that is required (I still don't own the pastel colors - yuck - I just don't like pastels!!). However, I am trying to be more "flexible" these days!

The color challenge for Feb. 19th was Orchid Opulance, Pumpkin Pie, and Certainly Celery. I read that and thought - yuck!! But again, I am trying to break out of my "regular" creative box so I decided to give it a go!!

I pulled out my Green Thumb set from Papertrey Ink. I love the grasshopper in the set but I've only used it a few times. Shame on me. So I decided to make him my focal image. I then got a bright idea that if he were sitting on a flower stem, it would probably curve down. One of the great things about using acrylic stamps is that you can stick them onto the acrylic block in different ways so I took the longest stem from this set and bent it when placing it on the block and then stamped it coming out of the rubber boot. Just enough bend for my little grasshopper to sit comfortably!! I stamped him twice and cut him out and popped him up a little. I generally feel like the regular dimensionals are too high so I usually glue 3 layers of cardstock and use it intead, just the right height!!

In the end, I kinda like this card -- love the images and layout, not so keen on the colors but they are growing on me ( a little ).

Supplies: Cardstock-Whisper White, Orchid Opulance, (Stampin' Up), green designer paper as close to certainly celery as I had (unknown); Stamps-Green Thumb and Paper Tray (Papertrey Ink); Ink-Pumpkin Pie, Certainly Celery, Orchip Opulance, Basic Black (all Stampin' Up!); Accessories-green satin ribbon (Michaels 1.50 bin), black marker (Zig).

Thanks for visiting,

Donelda