Happy Bitten by the Bug 2 Monday! This week's challenge cut was selected by our sweet Design Team sister, Jeri. Jeri chose the strawberry cut from the Simply Charmed cartridge. I do not have Simply Charmed so I chose a different strawberry; I selected the strawberry from Celebrate with Flourish. If you decide to play along and participate in the weekly challenge, you too can use any strawberry cut. Just be sure to link your strawberry project to the BBTB2 blog!
And before we get into today's card, I have one more thing to share. I liked Jeri's idea of a strawberry cut so much that I have decided to go with a berry theme for the week. This card is the first of six berry themed projects that I plan to share this week.
I used all four layers of the Celebrate with Flourish strawberry and actually created a fifth layer for the leaves and stem. I cut the icon image - the main strawberry - a second time in green cardstock. I used micro-tipped scissors and trimmed the top of the strawberry adding the bottom layer of leaves.
I finished the strawberry with a ribbon, a flower charm, and assorted pink buttons. I also added a few black doodles to the berry.
My main card pieces were cut using the Lacy Labels cartridge. I welded the base card pieces together in Design Studio, then cut the same shape a second time a bit smaller. I then cut two ovals on which to mat my berry and words.
Do you ever hate using quick dry glue? I did when I used it on the word "Sweet", which was cut using Kate's ABC's. My word was not placed onto the matting correctly and then I could not move the word without ripping the paper. Grrrr.
As I stated above, this is the first of six berry themed projects I will be sharing this week. Come back tomorrow for another berry flavored project! In the meantime, you can head over to BBTB2 and check out the design teams strawberries!
