Summer Fruit Card Duo

Hello crafty friends, Marine here with you today, I’m glad to be back on the blog to offer you a duo of refreshing fruity summer cards showcasing several products that were released last summer. I love those images very much, and thought it was the perfect timing to use them on cards.

I started off with the Citrus background, and cut a 5,5 x 4,25 inches panel out of kraft cardstock. To make the colors pop on the kraft paper, I first applied a coat of white pigment ink using the three Layered Citrus stencils. Next I layered the stencil #A, and applied squeezed lemonade, twisted citron and dried marigold oxide inks to create the middle of each citrus image. I layered the stencil #B, and applied mustard seed, mowed lawn and carved pumpkin oxide inks to make the peel, and with those same oxide inks and the stencil #C, I created the juicy droplets. To finish my Citrus background, I mixed some copic opaque white ink with water, and used a small brush to make splatters on my panel.

Next I created the Watermelon background, and cut a 5,5 x 4,25 inches kraft panel that I first colored using the three Layered Watermelon stencils along with white pigment to make a base. Next I layered the stencil #A, and applied candied apple oxide ink to make the inside of the fruit. I layered the stencil #B, and applied mowed lawn oxide ink to make the peel, and then layered the stencil #C and applied hickory smoke oxide ink to make the seeds. And to finish my Watermelon background, I mixed some copic opaque white ink with water, and used my small brush again to make splatters all over the panel.

I stamped all my images on the same kraft cardstock as the one I used to make the backgrounds using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, cut them using the matching dies and colored everything using my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and my Graph’it brush markers. I used all the stamps from Citrus, all the stamps from Watermelon, and two Fruit Borders.

I stuck my images on the panels using 1mm and 2mm foam squares, added highlights and details using a white gel pen, and then created my greetings. I made them identical, but used different colored cardstock to coordinate with each card: “Hi sweet friend” is from Watermelon, “Summer” is from Summer Drinks, and “Happy” is from Sentiment Strips: Birthday, I just cut one of my stamps to only stamp “Happy”. I used the matching dies and Sentiment Strips die to cut those different pieces, and attached them all on my panels using foam squares. And finally I stuck each panel to a matching A2 kraft card base.

And that’s it! Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next time!