CASology 3 ~ Fruit

Hey, guess what.  I'm today's guest designer on CASology!  It's my prize for winning in Week 1.  I've had to keep this secret for a whole week!  Keeping secrets (along with random) does not come easily, as anyone who knows me will tell you. 

Stamps: Take Note (PTI); Teeny Trees, Gingham & Co (Waltzing Mouse)

Ink: Tangelo, Rhubarb Stalk, Pear Tart (Memento); Kelly Green (Ink It Up); Versamark (Tsukineko)

Font: Migraine sans

Other: 1.75 inch circle punch, Silhouette, clear embossing powder

The cue word today is FRUIT - can you tell?

I began with the slices, stamping a circle using the reverse of the outline circle stamp, a tip from Virginia Lu's stretch your stamps series.  To do the outline & segments (Teeny Trees AGAIN), I put Versamark on the stamps first, before the coloured ink, so that the embossing powder would stick - I've found that Memento on it's own dries too fast for that.  The clear embossing makes the fruit look nice & juicy.  The orange is stamped on the same patterned paper as the 'rind'.  To get the pink grapefruit, I stamped off the Rhubarb Stalk first & then applied the detail with the original colour.  Originally, I tried with a lemon slice in the middle, but I couldn't get it to look right.

The quadrant & rind were cut with my Silhouette.  The placement of the font was a happy accident.  The paper didn't go through the printer properly - the words were supposed to be central.  I like it much better this way.  Clearly my printer has now decided to take design decisions.  Soon, it will be blogging for me as well!