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)

True Love Frame

I have entered a project in the challenge over at Paper Playtime in the past... but it's been a little while.  Now that the craziness of the holidays are over, I am hoping to pick up on challenges again!! YEAH!! :)

The challenge over at Paper Playtime this week is 

Use the word "LOVE" on your project

So a little back story for you:  My hubby and I will be celebrating 10 years together this year.  We met on February 17th, 2001. 

We've been super happy together, had two little boys (Sept of 2002 and Dec of 2004) and finally got married on February 14th, 2005 (yes, after both of our sons were born). We talked about it for a while and decided to combine Valentines Day and our anniversary which sounded awesome at the time.  In hindsight, we'd have done it differently.  We are ALWAYS asked to do some kind of extended family event on V-day so we can never celebrate on our actual anniversary! :(

Here is a frame with mirror I made for my hubby (okay, more for me).  I bought the frame at IKEA, covered it in Heidi Grace paper and added the sentiment.  

Sorry about the glare... mirrors are HORRIBLE to photograph!!!

The sentiment is using Gypsy Font.  It reads "True Love" on the top and "Ten years down, forever to go!" on the bottom.

As you can see I added a shadow under the sentiment.

Here is a closeup of the paper.  It has random love words and includes glossy words too.

Here you can see the back of the frame / mirror.  It is Malma from IKEA and measures 10" x 10" so it fits a piece of scrapbook paper with little waste. :)

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