Nothing Says Summer like Strawberries & Popsicles!

I made this card for the CARDS challenge over @ the Create blog. & I combined my two favorite things about summer; strawberries and popsicles. The challenge this week was t use twine. I drew my own strawberry shapebon a piece ogres cardstock, cut it out, covered it in glue, then used a pair of tweezers to place my twine (working from the outside in). I really like how this turned and have decided i'm going to create some more using other fruit/flavors and make it a gift set!
You will also see this card coming up on a special feature this coming weekend on Practical Scrappers so stay tuned to find out all about it!
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Accordion Paper Flowers Challenge!

This week's CARDS challenge on the Create Blog was to create paper accordion flowers. Hoping my entry isn't to late (again this week--never got last week's in), but here is my card....




Thanks for stopping in!

Kerri

Gettin' Froggie!

This week's challenge on the Create Blog is to create an animal-shaped card. Something a lot of my friends and family do not know about me is I have this new found love for frogs. Don't know when it started or where it came from but I am drawn to all that frog paraphernalia that is out there in the stores right now (especially the baby stuff--too CUTE!). So here's a fun card I made for a friend of mine that I was on the phone with the other day having a conversation about where "the real" prince charming is! I'm sure she'll get a kick out of it!

Product List:
Core'dinations (green core essentials cardstock)
Bazzil cardstock (pink and white)
Cuttlebug (Spots&Dot embossing folder)
Craft Essentials ribbon
Google eyes
Copic Markers ( G17 & 100)

Now most of the time when I create a shaped card I create my own SVG and use my SCAL & Cricut to cut it out. But this time, I decided to kick it back old school and do some fancy hand-cutting because this from idea came from a coloring page I had printed out from somewhere for my kids. I did a little piercing together and added my own fun twist --the tongue slides in when you open it up. To highlight my embossing I decided to pull out my Copic G17 marker and go over the embossing just to change the shade a little darker (also did this on the eyelids). To finish I went around the edge of everything with my black and drew in some lines to define the froggie legs.

Thanks for another great challenge and thanks for stopping in!

Card With Paper Weaving

So, I started doing the challenges two weeks ago at the Create Blog and now I seem to be an addict! This week's challenge was to create a card that used some paper weaving. I've done a bunch of paper weaving before, but they were all for baskets on Easter cards so I tried to think of something seasonal right now. It didn't take me long to think of a picnic blanket with red and white checks and the rest just fell into place.

Here's my summer themed card...



The picnic basket, water mellon, and grass sprouts embellies I created using some Cottage Cutz Dies in Cuttlebug.

Thanks for stopping in and I cannot wait to see what's in store for next week!

Kerri