Friday, June 1, 2012

Berry-licious!

Not only is today Friday -- it's Flourishes Friday and today the design team is showing off some purely delish designs using an oldie but goodie -- STRAWBERRIES! If you haven't seen this lovely, check it out!

Doesn't it just make your mouth water? Well, wait until you see what the design team whipped up with this set. Some also used a cherished background called Basketweave...


And... as I move on to my creation, I took on an extra bit of a challege thanks to Flourishes' artist, die designer, author and all around great gal -- Becky Fleck and....

Today, Becky will load up a new round of CardMaps over at pagemaps.com and some of the Flourishes designers took part by taking on one of her ten new card sketches! Here was my sketch.


And..... here is my creation!



So, you can see I used the berries for my background, stamping them with one of Memento's newest colors -- Peanut Brittle. Then, I colored up my berries with Copic Markers and I used these collections....


After I colored it all up, I did add some dots to the berries with the help of a white gel pen.
You can see in the background, I did use the Basketweave stamp to add a little extra pop. The paper is from my scrap bin, May Arts ribbon, and the pennants were cut with my Grand Calibur using the Nested Pennants die from Spellbinders. I did add a little bit of paper piercing as well. And that... my friends... is it!

Be sure to click on pagemaps.com to check out the fun! While you are hopping, make sure to pay these fine ladies below a visit!
Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a wonderful and creative weekend ahead. Until next time..... Happy Stamping!


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13 comments:

Glenda said...

Such a bright and cheerful card! Love the image and also the paper piercing! Well done!

Liz Williams said...

Love this layout!! Great card.

Ann said...

Gorgeous! What a happy card!

Amanda said...

STUNNING, Julie!! Oh how beautiful is your card! I love your soft, soft coloring and the sketch that you chose! In fact you have really inspired me with your card, I may give that one a go, too :)

~ Amanda :)

stampqueen said...

Adorable card!!!

Mona Pendleton said...

Such a pretty card Julie! Those strawberries look mouth watering and I LOVE the little banner! Thanks for the inspiration!

denise g. said...

Strawberries - - yummm! It's getting closer to MI berry time, too. I've been thinking strawberry pie and since your berries look good enough to eat, I'll be inspired to head to the kitchen as well as the studio with this one. Happy Weekend! Mr Wonderful has spent most of his week of vacation working on my yard and back decks. It's getting there and I'm good at fetching and toting and being the carpenter's assistant when I arrive after work (or so I keep assuring myself ;).

Heather Rogers said...

So cute! Love the banners and your always perfect little bows.

This was one of my very first Flourishes sets. :)

Hugs~

Holly AKA KopyKat said...

this is so fabulous, love the look, I'm going to have to pick up that penute brittle color and try this.

Shelly Schmidt said...

Berry beautifully done!!! Love the layout!

Tammy Hershberger said...

Oh my WORD, Julie! Your coloring on the strawberries is STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leslie Miller said...

What a cute card you made with Becky's sketch and the strawberries! I love it!

dpkennedy said...

This is stunning Julie! What a pretty sketch you used!