Strawberry season is one of my favorites. (Peach season comes close behind.) The strawberries didn’t last as long in Western New York this year due to a week of exceptionally high temperatures. Nonetheless, I pulled out The Greetery’s Botani-Cuts: Strawberries to make several birthday cards (all identical).
It’s a very CAS design. I started with the strawberry die cuts in white, coloring them with a variety of Pinkfresh Studio inks and finger daubers. Betsy Veldman of The Greetery often uses finger daubers, and I’m becoming a fan. Much quicker in this case than using a blending brush. Once that was completed, I die cut a Pinkfresh Studio Rounded Braided Rectangle from white and arranged the strawberries on it.
I added very small pieces of dimensional tape to the pretty blossoms, and stamped the sentiment from The Greetery’s Print Shop: Spring Mix before adding it to a white cardbase.
The Inspired By Challenge is Strawberries, so this is headed their way as well as to the Simply Clean and Simple Challenge.
This is such a sweet card Karen … pun intended! 🙂 The strawberries didn’t last long here either, but because we had such a wet spring / start of summer. But we enjoyed as many as we could. 🙂 xx
Great card. Love those strawberries! Thanks so much for playing along at Inspired By!
a berry-licious card. Your use of the finger daubers is masterful – I also like those over blending brushes.
We are just getting the tail end of fresh local strawberries – I was shocked at the price of even local strawberries & we didn’t have any season weather trauma to threaten the crop.
A beautiful and refreshing summertime card!! Thanks so much for joining our challenge at Simply Clean and Simple!
Diane SCAS Co-Owner
Perfect subject for summer birthdays! The finger daubers created lovely ombre coloring.
Also red and green, but quite different of course! Very cheerful for a summer card. We are in strawberry season at the moment. I’ve bought a few – and of course it is the signature snack for Wimbledon (even if that felt more like an autumn tournament this year, with all the rain and wind!).
Wow this is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing over at Simply Clean and Simple this month, hope to see you in future challenges.
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