Berry Sweet Card

I made a card today that just screams summertime! :)

I made this cute craft on craft card today.  It's an craft colored A2 (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") card base, the mat is a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of craft embossed with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.  I printed the sentiment directly on the mat using Edwardian Script at 36 points. Then I masked the embossing folder so it wouldn't emboss over the sentiment. 

For the central cut, I cut the strawberries from Preserves at 1". The scalloped oval is from Gypsy Font at 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" and the oval is from Gypsy Wanderings at 2" x 3". I reverse embossed the strawberries and mounted the left one up on pop dots (as well as the stem). 

Here you can see how the sentiment section is not embossed. I added some white gel pen doodles around the central cut and the card base.

I love adding buttons to my project, these are tied with some white string before attaching them with hot glue.

I added a spare flower to the inside of the card and drew some matching gel pen stitches.

From this angle, you sure can see all the texture that the embossing adds.  I love that.  For the ribbon layer, I added a wider strip of sheer white ribbon under two lengths of red and white bakers twine.  I tied the bow with my Bow Easy before attaching the ribbon to the card.

Challenges:

Cricut Cardz Challenge : Tutti Fruitti (add a fruit to your card)

Tacky Tuesday : Berry + a punny sentiment

Tuesday Throwdown : Summertime

Craft Spot : you make me smile (thinking of you)