Doodle Pantry has a secondary release this month of some older sets, now available in a colorized version, and a set of fabulous digital papers, called Country Flavors! Oh, I'm in love with nearly every one of the papers, and since blackberries are probably my favorite summer fruit, I had to do a card using blackberries for my image and two of the new papers. This just brings back great memories of heading out into the wild with buckets in hand and then picking wild blackberries until we had pounds and pounds of them for eating, freezing, baking pies, and finally making jams and preserves. Mmmmm, definitely the best of summer!
Here's my card using the "Blackberries" set. That set has its own papers, but I chose to use papers from the new Country Flavors set.
The image is printed twice in different sizes, then fussy cut and layered together. The same thing could be done merging .png images together but I'm still working on how to do merging so fussy cutting is my best option at this point. The images are layered onto a die cut which is mounted onto another larger die cut, made with one of the Country Flavors digi dp. That one is backed with white paper.
I used a second County Flavors dp for the vertical strip and added sheer purple ribbon with a great sparkle in it, then tied a bow. The sentiment is also from the Blackberries set and it's just printed and cut free hand, with scissors. It may be hard to see but I hand embossed two lines down the left side of the card, and then used the "Lattice" embossing folder on the right side of the card front. Obviously, those embossings were done before I started layering everything onto the card.
Challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge -- Lots of layers
Allsorts -- Favourite things (blackberries)
4 Crafty Chicks -- Dry emboss
Clearly I Stamp -- Summertime
Jellypark Friends -- Celebrate summer
One Stop Craft -- Anything goes
Rhedd & Rosie's -- Here comes summer
Scrapper's Delights -- Die cuts
Check below for a photo of the new Blackberries colorized set, and be sure to check out the Doodle Pantry store to see all of the new releases. Don't forget our challenge. If you enter by July 24 (must use a DP image), you'll get a free set and you can get another free set with any purchase made by July 24. There's also a new freebie set called "Viola Ants" on the Freebies page at the store. How can you lose?
Happy Stamping. NanaConnie
Here's my card using the "Blackberries" set. That set has its own papers, but I chose to use papers from the new Country Flavors set.
I chose my sketch from Sketch Saturday, turned sideways,
and my colors from the challenge at Inkspirational.
The image is printed twice in different sizes, then fussy cut and layered together. The same thing could be done merging .png images together but I'm still working on how to do merging so fussy cutting is my best option at this point. The images are layered onto a die cut which is mounted onto another larger die cut, made with one of the Country Flavors digi dp. That one is backed with white paper.
I used a second County Flavors dp for the vertical strip and added sheer purple ribbon with a great sparkle in it, then tied a bow. The sentiment is also from the Blackberries set and it's just printed and cut free hand, with scissors. It may be hard to see but I hand embossed two lines down the left side of the card, and then used the "Lattice" embossing folder on the right side of the card front. Obviously, those embossings were done before I started layering everything onto the card.
Challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge -- Lots of layers
Allsorts -- Favourite things (blackberries)
4 Crafty Chicks -- Dry emboss
Clearly I Stamp -- Summertime
Jellypark Friends -- Celebrate summer
One Stop Craft -- Anything goes
Rhedd & Rosie's -- Here comes summer
Scrapper's Delights -- Die cuts
Check below for a photo of the new Blackberries colorized set, and be sure to check out the Doodle Pantry store to see all of the new releases. Don't forget our challenge. If you enter by July 24 (must use a DP image), you'll get a free set and you can get another free set with any purchase made by July 24. There's also a new freebie set called "Viola Ants" on the Freebies page at the store. How can you lose?
Happy Stamping. NanaConnie
