Craft Roulette Submission - Hero Arts Kid's Fruit Shaker Card

  

Hello crafty friends, 
     here's my submission to Craft Roulette, Episode #168:

Since this was my 90th card submission, I wanted something a little extra special.  I picked a stamp that required lots of coloring and also lend itself to the needed color scheme of "Citrus Orchard".  This fruit stamp by Hero Arts from their March 2023 kit was perfect for the job.  

I used alcohol markers (Copics & Spectrum Noir Tri-blends) to color my stamped image.  Next I fussy cut the inside of two of oranges to make them into shaker elements, and fussy cut around the fruits on the edges so that it would fit my A2 top loading card.  I popped up the fussy cut fruit panel with dimensional adhesive and tucked in some of the cut off fruits to fill out my card front.  The "orange you amazing" is a computer created sentiment I made in Elements.   

I love how bright and cheerful this card turned out.  Maybe on first look, this is not an obvious "Kid's Card", but I feel this stamp along with a funny or silly sentiment makes a great card for kid's of all ages.  

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Craft Roulette #75 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #75 (14th in a row):

Unlike this week's special guest  Jess McAfee, I love red, so I was excited to work with it.  Fruit and In the corner were my head scratchers this time, so I gave myself a little time to think about my card.  I finally took direction from the Refreshing Cooler F20319 stamp by IO that was sitting on my desk.  

I used Technique Tuesday Luscious Grapes a base for my window opening that shows my red wine cooler.  I'm not sure what brand the die I used to die cut my window was.  I keep it along with my most used foundation dies in a clear drawer without it's packaging and over the years I have forgot who makes what.  But I looked up similar dies and found two options:  FS Semi Circle Element and SS Semi Circle Frames. I used the Small Brick Wall Stencil by MFT for my background along with Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink.  

I started by stamping, coloring and fussing cutting my two images.  Next,  I die cut my window. You can do this before or after stenciling the background, it ended up not really mattering.  I didn't want the brick background going the whole width of the card, so I position my stencil accordingly and masked the area I didn't want ink on.  I adhered  the grape cluster around the bottom window opening using double sided tape. I used faint pencil marks to get the placement for my wine cooler on the card's inside.  I stamped the grapes with gray ink right over the pencil marks for a subtle look and placed my wine cooler over it (the pencil marks were almost not visible).   

Looking at the card as I type this up, the only thing I would change is to tone down all the white by adding some aging around the edges... maybe Distress inking with old paper.  

The video below shows how I assembled this card: 

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