Tuesday 24 July 2012

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!

12 comments:

  1. LOVED this as soon as I saw it in the CASology drafts earlier this week! Congrats on being our guest designer - I love your style!

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  2. You amazed me with how quickly you created this card! True CAS! :) Love those little wedges of fruit and the bright, happy colors! Congratulations, once again, on being our winner for week #1 and being our very first guest designer! :)

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  3. Jenny so glad you joined us this week with your fabulous creation. Those glittery slices are amazing.

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  4. super cute card... the glittery fruit are absolutely yummy! congrats on being the first guest designer!!

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  5. Great card, lovely bright colours.

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  6. Fabulous card and congraulations on being guest designer (and well done for keeping the secret!).
    Kath x

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  7. Jenny, congratulations on being selected as the guest designer. I love your adorably sweet card.

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  8. Love your juicy fruit card, Jenny, and congratulations on winning week one at the new fab CASology!!

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  9. cute and so fresh looking...just the perfect summer card...

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  10. Your card is absolutely fabulous! Congrats to you on your GD gig!

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  11. Love your shimmery slices of citrus! Cute card ;)

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