Well, my steady diet of fruit is rubbing off on my stamping choices! Here we have three kinds of fruity goodness, with a technique! I talked about how hard it is to find good peaches where I live, but there are lots of strawberries here. And I have found wonderful pears, but mostly in the winter. That is ok, we need fruit in the winter time too! And by eating what is in season, I rotate my foods a bit :)
I made a video for the pear card, and I hope you enjoy it!
All of the cards are on a Crumb Cake card base 4¼"x8½" scored in half, then the colored mat is 3¾" square, and the Whisper White image panel is 3½" square. The vellum strips are about ¾"x3¾".
First up, we have the pear card. I used Pear Pizzazz, Crushed Curry, and Garden Green on this one,
Then the strawberry card uses Watermelon Wonder under a rock-n-rolled Cherry Cobbler, with a Garden Green top.
And the peach card, which uses Peekaboo Peach, Watermelon Wonder, and Emerald Envy.
Here is a little peek inside all of them. Lots of lovely fruit! Now, if you order from me this month, you just might get one of these in the mail :)
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It's time for another kind of fruit! I made this card without Designer Series Paper by the way. And it was pretty easy :)
I made another video! I hope that I am getting better at it, and that you all are enjoying watching them.
Do you love fresh, juicy peaches? I sure do, but I have a hard time finding good ones in Northern Minnesota. I long for the peaches that are so ripe, you can smell them across the room and they drip down your chin when you take a big bite :) Well, I decided to make my own peaches! I don't have the Fruit Stand DSP, which has a pattern similar to this pattern. But if you have the stamp set, which I do, you can make your own!
The image panel is a 4"x5¼" Whisper White piece. Cardbase is Crumb Cake 5½"x8½" scored at 4¼". Crumb Cake 1"x3½" strip for the sentiment.
For each peach, I inked the stamp up in Peekaboo Peach, then used a sponge dauber to apply Watermelon Wonder to the inked stamp. Then stamped, cleaned the stamp to prevent contaminating the Peekaboo Peach pad, and repeated until all the peaches were stamped.
I stamped a peach on the inside also.
Added stems in just one color, Emerald Envy.
Stamped the sentiment on a 1" strip of crumb Cake in Versamark and heat embossed with Copper embossing powder.
Made a nest of Copper Thread and stuck it to the cardfront.
Stitched around the panel, with the sentiment strip, then adhered the coasters, then the cardbase.
See that cute little peach on the inside? I love how well Crumb Cake takes all kinds of inks!
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It is mid-July and it is definitely time for bright sunshiney fruit cards! So here we go with one of the cards I made for a recent swap. I had not played with the Pineapple background stamp much yet and really felt the need to ink it up! So much so that I made a video for this card. Hopefully you enjoy yhe video :)
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I am in love with pineapples right now. I am not kidding when I say that, between my hubby and I, we go through three fresh pineapples a week right now! I have gotten really good at waiting until they are so ripe, they actually have a coconut flavored undertone. YUM!!! I am going to go have a few bites of pineapple right now while I type this up :)
You will see in the video that I have cut my image into two parts so I can ink them separately.
There is a watercolor wash as the background of this card front, done in Peekaboo Peach.
Then the pineapple is inked up with Crushed Curry and thumped with a Soft Suede marker, stamped off once, spritzed with water, then stamped onto the watercolor panel. Then the same process is repeated for the top of the pineapple in Wild Wasabi and accented with Emerald Envy. Do the same on the right side of a 4"x5¼" panel of Whisper White as the card liner.
Apply Clear Wink of Stella all over the pineapple.
Stamp the thank you banner from Pop of Paradise in Archival Black ink on a scrap of Whisper White, then die cut with the Paradise Pop die from Dies by Dave
Apply dimensionals to the back of the banner, create a nest of gold thread, and stick to the back of the banner. Adhere to the cardfront over the middle of the pineapple.
Stitch around the edge of the watercolor panel.
Trim 4" square coasters to fit the back of the panel, adhere to card front. Adhere card liner to the inside. All done!
You can see the little bit of dimension the coasters give to the card front, and the lovely little banner!
I used a fun die set from Dies by Dave to cut out this banner, and there are so many great dies in this set, you are really going to want them yourself :)
Even on Whisper White the stamping off looks great! This technique gives the image more dimension.
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