BERRY SWEET

A number of challenges have had Berries as their prompt for us this week.  I decided to use the retired Stampin Up Apple of My Eye set which I recently bought.  Such a great little set I'm glad I have it in my stash.

I went with CAS for my card and cut out a frame using the stitched framelits and used it as a template to sponge the background in SU Powder Pink.  I then stamped the cherries from this set in Crumb Cake for the stem, Pear Pizazz for the leaves and it had to be Berry Burst for the berries.  A touch of Wink of Stella added to them to make them shine.  The sentiments were also inked in Berry Burst.  The ribbon is in Powder Pink and that completes the card.  Berry Burst is not really a colour I use often because I'm not really a Bright's colours kind of girl - I much prefer to use muted earth tones - but Time Out challenged us to use bright and I think the cherries needed to be a bold colour.


And, as with all my CAS cards I have to walk away and not add any extras!

I'm adding this into the following challenges:

Addicted to CAS #143 - Berries 

Inkspirational - Ice Creams - My card uses the berries and the Sweet sentiment 

The Paper Players #PP406 - CAS Fruit and Veg 


Time Out Challenge #116- Bright


I've just looked at this card again and made myself laugh - it looks like a Mrs Potato Head without a mouth!  Not quite the look I was going for. LOL!




 

READY, STEADY, GO!!!

The Challenge over at Inkspirational this week is make a card in 10 minutes or less.  Not very difficult for me because I do tend to rush through my cards - so I popped the timer on and decided to see exactly how long it would take me.  The challenge over at CAS Colours and Sketches is a double whammy of colours and sketches lol!  So I decided to combine both challenges and do a CAS card in under ten minutes!  These are the colours and the sketch to work to - I didn't have the correct SU colours but used some similar retired ones of Certainly Celery, Close to Cocoa and Regal Rose.





I used some of the new DSP and used the Stitched Circle framelits to cut out the apple stamp and the background.  I used a new SU pearlized doily behind.  The leaves and stalk were cut out and added with dimensionals to the back of the apple.  I used the framelit from Colourful Season to add the detailed DSP.  All in all it took my a little over 8 minutes to do.

I'm also adding this into the Inspired By challenge which is back to school - that doesn't happen in the UK yet until September and, as my kids are now grown, school is no longer an issue.  I do remember the days though, as a stay at home mum, that I never wanted them to go back - no honest I didn't!  I loved having them home.  I quite like the idea though of giving the teacher an apple at the start of the year!  I wonder how that practice started and if it is ever done still.