Sweet Strawberry Bundle for Global Creative INKspirations - March 2021 Blog Hop

Happy Thursday, y'all!  Hello and welcome to the Global Creative INKspirations Blog Hop!  You are either starting here or coming from Danielle's blog.  This month we are sharing some inspiration with you using products from the Sweet Strawberry Bundle.

Today's Project

Don't you just love strawberries?!?  I love going to the local farms and picking them in June!  Granted they are so yummy during the picking some of them do not make it home once they're in the car!  Summer isn't summer unless I've picked some.  What about you?  So today's projects were created using my favorite coloring technique... watercoloring!

Project Details

The Real Red cardbases are Mini Slim sizes...  created from two 5-1/2" square pieces of cardstock!  This way they fit in our standard Basic White envelopes.  I ususally shorten the envelopes, but for today they are lined with Real Red and Garden Green DSP as envelope liners to sturdy up the envelopes for mailing.

The strawberries were stamped with StazOn and watercolored by dipping the Water Brushes in a glass of watter.  After watercoloring the first strawberry, I quickly switched to this as the water turned red!   The strawberries were watercolored with Daffodil Delight, Real Red and Blackberry Bliss representing the different ripenesses of the strawberries.  The stems were watercolored with Garden Green.  

Additional strawberries were watercolored for the insides!  With the watercoloring paper, the berries were easier to fussy cut.  The stems were punched out specifically for the thickness of the stems... while the leaves were trimmed up a bit.  The cardstock layers were enlarged to allow for additional room for corresponding to the recipient on Basic White cardstock after the strawberries and stems were adhered with liquid glue.

STAMPING TIP:  Did you notice that I was using the Stamparatus as my workspace for the watercoloring, etc.?  This is actually something that I do all the time!  I may not always use the hinge plates for my stamping, but I love using my Stamparatus as a "stamping space".  This always keeps my creative options open!

The sentiments were all inked with VersaMark, stamped on scrap Basic Black cardstock and heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder.  

And as I had an extra cardbase, the fourth card was created with Basic White cardstock and stamping with Tuxedo Black Memento.  The fill stamps were used to ink the strawberries with Real Red and the stems with Garden Green.  Which do you prefer?  The stamp filled image (top card in the above photo) or the watercoloring (bottom card in the above photo)?

Do you ever create something and then realize that you love the envelope more than you do the card itself?!?  That's what happened with the fourth card that I created as I loved the look of the strawberries without the outline when using the fill image stamps!  So that is definitely a look that I will be creating more cards with using different techniques!

You Can Make These Sweet Strawberry Projects!

Here's What You'll Need to Get Started...

BASIC SUPPLIES:

• Clear Blocks A, B, C, G
• Water Painter
• Paper Trimmer
• Paper Snips
• Stamparatus
• Small Grid Paper
• Heat Tool
• Multipurpose Liquid Glue
• Bone Folder
• StazOn Cleaner
• Simply Shammy
• Standard Stamp Case

STAMPS:

• Sweet Strawberry Photopolymer Stamp Set (available as a bundle with the Strawberry Builder Punch)

INK:

• Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad
• Jet Black StazOn Ink 
• Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad
• Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad
• Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad
• Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad
• VersaMark Pad

PAPER:

• Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper
• Basic White Cardstock 
• Basic Black Cardstock
• Real Red Cardstock
• Basic White Medium Envelopes
• Regals 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper

OTHER:

• Strawberry Builder Punch
• White Stampin' Emboss Powder

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You can purchase any of these supplies from my online store if you do not have a Stampin' Up!® demonstrator.  Order the Sweet Strawberry Stamp Set and the Strawberry Builder Punch together for bundled savings!

More Inspiration

I hope that this has inspired you to create some fun strawberry projects to share with others!  Now, let's pop over for some more inspiration with my friend, Tania (click here), across the waters!  She's on the Artisan Design Team this year and has an amazing project that you will want to CAS(e)... you'll be amazed, I'm sure.

Global Creative INKspirations Blog Hop

Tatiana Tobin - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Angie McKenzie - US - YOU ARE HERE

Thanks for stopping by my little corner of the world!

Have a blessed day!

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