Hi all! A new Double D Challenge is up and ready for you to play along. It's a color challenge this time and I absolutely LOVE the board Darlene has provided for inspiration. These fruity drinks look refreshing, delicious, and beautiful:
I went with the red and white so I could use my new-to-me Strawberries die set by Elizabeth Craft. I went on a search for this die set after seeing Darlene's card here. I guess I was in a shopping frame of mind and Darlene's pretty CAS card pushed all the right buttons. The die set appears to be retired, but I found it on Amazon. It can't matter whether I'm using old or new if I love it.
Dies are cut from watercolor paper and colored with Tombow markers. Where applicable I used just the side of the marker so the debossed areas would stay white. Then I added a touch of yellow to the berry seeds.
Basketweave embossing in the background, puffy ladybug stickers, Cottage Cutz sentiment dies. Each word is a separate die set with shadow. As you can see, I used one with and one without the shadow. I made the frame by nesting and layering Spellbinders square dies -- one red frame edges the 5" card, the white frame is layered over that. The whole card was way fun to make!
Here's the prize for a lucky random winner:
The team votes on creative winners.
Come see us at Double D. The team cards are amazing and now I'm looking forward to seeing yours.
I will also share my card at Darnell's NBUS Challenge #51 because the strawberries and sentiment dies are a first time use.
Thank you for visiting!
Paper: Arches 140 lb hot press watercolor, Neenah Classic Crest Super Smooth Solar white 80 lb & 110 lb, SU Poppy Parade Coloring: Tombow markers Dies: Elizabeth Craft Strawberries, Cottage Cutz, Sweet w/Shadow and Wishes w/Shadow, Spellbinders square dies Other: Darice Basketweave embossing folder, puffy ladybug stickers (older from Joanne's)
30 comments:
Fabulous card that screams Summer,I love the dies cut strawberries and little ladybird,perfect embossed background.New or old doesn't matter to me either have bought a few dies off a crafters selling page on FB.-I don't do Amazon but if anything I need Daughter orders it for me.
Carol x
I'm loving your card my friend. You now have me wanting to dig for my stamp of strawberries. I know I saw mine just the other day so I need to find it! As always your coloring is just perfect!
Oh my word!!! Those berries look good enough to eat! Your overall design is FABULOUS!! So beautiful & inspiring (no surprise there). Keeping you in my prayers my friend. HUGS
This is adorable Leslie! The nice thing about these strawberry dies is that the design is timeless. Even though it's discontinued, they'll never be out of style. I love this card with the little white flowers and puffy ladybug. So cute! Don't think for a minute that I overlooked that darling little polka dotted brad too. This is simply delightful!!
Leslie, I thought Hero Arts had topped the most realistic strawberries, but I was wrong! These are so bright and juicy I want to take a bite!
Such a beautiful creation, my friend...
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Those strawberries sure do look sweet and yummy! Great layout for these pretty dies. Love the shading on them too, so realistic! I have 2 little plants out back and a few red berries--well until that pesky (and cute) little chipmunk strolled by lol This looks FAB!
What a sweet, SWEET card Leslie!! And literally too!! Michigan strawberries are out now and are SO delicious...just like the ones on your card!! I love the basket weave background and adore those little ladybug stickers...what a great addition to this card!! The mood board says SUMMER and so does this FABULOUS card my friend...LOVE it!! Hugs. :0)
Marcia, your berries look positively delicious!
Trying this again...I mispoke I meant to say Leslie...your berries looks positively delicious. Hugs.
Sweet! :) Your strawberries look delicious, Leslie. LOVE all the details with the basketweave background, layered sentiment, and those adorable lady bugs. xx
Leslie, don’t tell anyone, but usually I have a favorite from the bunch of designed cards. Surprise yours is my favorite this challenge. No surprise I guess because it’s just washes. I love your real looking strawberries good enough to eat. What a welcoming card you have made.
What a great challenge and perfect for this time of year! I love your strawberry popped up on the basket weave die. I have been looking at that die! Layering the frames is a perfect finishing touch. Hope you are having a great week! Take care.
Mouthhwateringly beautiful. Love the layout.
Oh Leslie - this is so stunning!!! I love EVERYTHING about it. I can see why you fell in love with the strawberries and had to have them. Maybe I'll look and see if I can find them, too. :-)
Sweet Card. Love those strawberries and the cute ladybugs. Have a great day
Your die cut strawberries images, colors and square card design are stunning, Leslie. I feel so fortunate to have seen and touched your beauty IRL...it is even more amazing to see all the textures, 3D effects and coloring of the die cut yummy berries, etc. A real work of art my friend. I even got some die cuts from Leslie out of white 110# paper for a future project:-) So much fun sharing our love for such a wonderful paper craft, whether IRL or via blog posts from all our talented and sharing friends:-) TFS your beauty my dear forever friend...Love and Hugs...Nancy
YUMMY is what this card is, those strawberries look good enough to eat, making me crave some fresh picked Michigan strawberries!! The basket weave background is a perfect place for them to rest on too and then a ladybug too, perfect perfection I would say!! You have been in my thoughts, hang strong!!
Delightful and delicious, Leslie! The embossed background is perfect with those luscious looking strawberries. You creations are always so inspiring. I truly struggled with this challenge. I guess I should have gone with color alone!
Such a sweet card and your detail make it stunning!! The puff ladybugs and basket weave embossing are examples of how wonderfully you combine elements and add things I would never think of. A gardener's delight!
Leslie, you just know how to bring die cuts to life! LOVING the depth of colors in the watercolor paper, AND the darling flowers promising more fruit, AND those adorable ladybugs! I especially like the way one word is dark, and the other is white against the dark background! SO LUSCIOUSLY DELICIOUS and BEAUTIFUL! hugs, de
Fabulous card. I love all your little details that make it so spectacular. No, doesn't matter if it's old or new. It's all in the creativity and you certain have oodles of that.
Oh, what a sweet delight! Those berries are fantastic! I'm so glad you're still crafting after all these years. I happened to find myself on Splitcoaststampers site after years and years and I saw all these sweet comments from you on the cards I had made. It brought back happy memories Of that time period and the people I met and I have to say you were among my favorites And I appreciate you continuing to enlighten people's lives with your beautiful artwork.
Your strawberries look scrumdiddlyumshush adn the little Ladybugs are adorable ♥
This is magnificent, and captures summer beautifully! Love the layers and the bright happy design!
Oh my dear, you have done it once again. The shading on those strawberries just makes them come to life, and your design is FABULOUS! That little lady bug is the perfect final touch, and I really like your embossed background. LOVE this, as usual.
These strawberries look so juicy and delicious, Leslie! What a great arrangement of berries in that basketweave and I love the little lady bugs!
That is great you were still able to find the die, you did a beautiful job with the coloring, they look good enough to eat. the basket weave background was a perfect touch with them. Those ladybugs are just the cutest too. I love how you used just one shadow die with your sentiment, gives it a neat look, Love this!
This looks so awesome, fabulous image and design are lovely x
Oh so pretty. Very clever with the "Sweet Wishes", one layered and one not!
That's a pretty embossing folder which I had not seen. But then I've been out of the loop for a few :) days!
Just realised that I haven't visited this beauty yet. Time to put that right. Those strawberries look good enough to eat and i love the basketweave background. Such wonderful texture and dimension. a perfect summery card xx
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