Strawberry Time!

Challenge Me Monday #70 at the Fantabulous Cricut is to create a project with a melon or another sort of fruit. I made strawberries.

My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #18 is "Emboss it!" I embossed the strawberries with my Cuttlebug.

I used the Preserves cartridge and cut the strawberries as embellishments for this layout. I'm not sure about the size, but I think it was somewhere around 3" for the big one, and 1" for the little one on my journaling. I put the strawberries through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I used a flower & jewels from my stash for the blossoms. The green cardstock is Core'dinations and the strawberry paper was just loose paper at JoAnn's, not sure of the brand, the red is DCWV. I used an EK Success border punch (not sure which one) to punch the border above and below the strawberry paper. I used PageMaps May 2011 sketch.

My newest set of OWH cards

So, this is my next set of cards for Operation Write Home (http://www.operationwritehome.org/).

I used Walk In My Garden to cut the leaves, I think at 2". Flowers are from Prima, brads from my stash.(Patterned Paper-DCWV Spring Paper Pack)

I cut the label with Preserves. I used 1.5" then used Design Studio to stretch it to 2". I typed the sentiment "thinking of you" to fill the page and then used George & Basic shape to cut a 1.75" circle. I finished the cards off with eyelets and buttons. (Patterned Paper-DCWV Spring Paper Pack)

I used Walk In My Garden to cut the flower in 3 sizes (2", 1.5", 1") and then stacked and stapled them together. I cut 2" tags from Tags, Bags, Boxes & More then stamped them with the "thinking of you" stamp and stapled a piece of ribbon to the tag. (Patterned Paper-DCWV Pocket Full of Posies)