Strawberry Time

First I want to express my sincere appreciation to Mary Fish for featuring me on her blog today.  I hope you will find something to help inspire your next card!  If you have the time please leave me a comment.  I would love hearing from you and thanks for the visit! 

Where I live one of the first things that come off the vine in the Spring are peas.  It’s a big thing here … Peas and Dumplings soup!  The dumplings are those slippery little suckers, you know the ones that want to slide right down.  *smile*  Along with that is, of course, ‘STRAWBERRIES’…I can hardly wait!  The menu usually goes like this ~
               Fresh Peas and Dumplings
               Hot Biscuits
               Fresh Strawberry Shortcake with whipped cream

With this in mind I knew where my next card was coming from! … LOL

 

Keeping it clean and simple with a little country flair and the strawberry being the focal point. 

Here are the directions for the strawberry ~

                    

The strawberry body is made from the Heart of Hearts die with a trimmed 5 petal punch on top of that.  Another trimmed 5 petal punch down to two petals is placed on top of that (or just use the piece you just cut off).  I punched three blossom sets and placed them randomly around the top of the strawberry.  Each blossom was punched from the Boho Blossom punch adding a yellow brad from the Subtle collection.  I used my bone folder to curl up the ends of each blossom.  It doesn’t show up very well, but after cutting out the heart, using white and yellow inks, I lightly inked up the raised dots of the heart to represent the outer seeds of a strawberry.  It does seem to give off a more realistic appearance in real life.  If you look close in the bottom picture on the right, the inked dots are a little more clear.

A look on the inside ~

           

Supplies needed ~ all are SU! unless otherwise noted

• Card stock – C. Cake and W. White
• Punches – Heart to Heart die, 5 Petal, Two Step Bird, Boho Blossom, 1 1/4 circle and Eyelet Border punches
• Subtle brad, ribbon from my stash and thinking of you stamp from the dollar bin.

Hope you enjoyed your visit, come back, you’re always welcomed here at the “loft”! *smile*  If you have a minute, remember to leave me a comment.  Thanks!