Summer Strawberries!

Hey everyone - it's my turn to post at Die Cut Divas! We're celebrating June with a Summer Days theme even though, astronomically speaking, summer didn't start in the Northern Hemisphere until today. Meanwhile our friends in the Southern Hemisphere are enjoying winter - hopefully our challenge will give them a reminder of summer fun! Here's the card I'm sharing at DCD:

Supplies: Digi - SheepSki Designs Strawberry Season

Paper - Hero Arts Pitch Black &Sky Layering Paper (retired);

Neenah white; Paper Studio Red; scrap of strip by ??

Dies - Spellbinders Lacey Squares & 

Layered Mix & Match Sentiments

Other - Copic Markers; white gel pen

The Diva team received some SheepSki images to try so you'll see several examples of Strawberry Season this month, including a beauty HERE from Cindy (Escape to Stamping). Thanks to Arlene (A Bit of This and That) for printing the images for me! I enjoyed coloring the strawberry image, including the background which I did using various light B Copics. I could've done better on my shadows but, hey, I'm a novice! Don't know why it happens, but I get a big blob of ink right when I'm finishing! This time it was a bit of grey on a flower - really had to work to clean that up but I did ok...I think.

I cut the colored digi into a square and added a thin mat layer, then adhered to a lacey square. I've had that Spellbinders die set for ages & was delighted to be able to find it in the stash!! The sentiment came in a 9/2021 Small Die of the Month set - what a great set with several words plus shadows and two flowers with leaves. I stacked the black hello 4 times for dimension and added a white shadow. The striped paper was from my scrap bin and already cut at that angle - thought it added some interest behind the strawberry image.

I've been trying to do a bonus card for each of my Diva posts and today is no exception. I used a larger print of the same image & went horizontal for a different look. I saw some pink flowers while googling images of strawberry blossoms so thought I'd try to replicate. Argh - another blob, right on a flower (pretty obvious in the photo but I hope I fixed it ok). I kept the mats simple and added to a top fold horizontal A2 card along with a plaid scrap from the bin. The sentiment strip came from a preprinted Taylored Expressions pack Simple Strips in Reverse - Love. I die cut a sheet of them using their Simple Strips Die so have a nice variety of love themed strips ready.

I hope you'll pop on over and add your summer themed card to our June Diva Gallery! Just remember to include a die cut or embossing folder in your design along with the summer theme. As you'll see, it can be for any occasion with a summer bent :)

Thanks for stopping and happy crafting!!