Lemony Birthday Wishes - Sketch Challenge #28 Tawnie Owl Paperie

 

Greetings!  

 

It's grey and snowy in the Midwest today, but I am feeling sunny!  I'm working on organizing projects ahead for this year and have a lot of papers, stamps and dies on my craft room floor.  Laying things together helps me visualize how they will work in projects. 

I love giving themed gifts, and this year I am going to try to incorporate a set of gift cards with each gift basket or box.    

I got on a roll with the theme of fruits, and pulled out lemon dies, berry stamps, and oranges!  I didn't realize how many I have accumulated.  

As the year progresses, I will work these themes into gift baskets.  The berry set will make nice jam toppers, and tags.  A card set will also be included, nestled inside a berry or bushel basket.  

The lemon set, can easily be used with lemon curd and a scone recipe, and the oranges can be used for a package with a juicer and fun tea towels.  

You could have tons of fun organizing tons of different themed baskets!  

For today, I was inspired to make a lemon happy birthday card. This card is part of  Tawnie Owl Paperie's monthly sketch challenge.  Join in on the fun here: Tawnie Owl Paperie  I veered of a little bit from the sketch, using hexagons rather than rectangles, but I liked the contrast of the geometric shapes against the lemons.  

To begin, I chose 3-complimentary shades of green (light, medium and dark).  I die cut the lightest shade as the background hexagons.  The medium and dark shades were used to make the lemon leaves.  I then die cut the lemons, and sponged daffodil delight ink to the edges.    

A Happy Birthday sentiment was stamped, and die cut over the leaves.  I did not have dimensional foam, so I die cut two additional banner dies, and glued them together for the same effect.  Enamel dimensional dots were added to the center of the flowers.  

                                                    Thanks for stopping by! - Valerie Kaye

Supplies:

Cardstock/ Paper- White card base- Accent 120# cardstock, Stampin up various shades of green, lemons Daffodil Delight paper used.  Polka - dot paper from Concord and 9th

Dies- Spellbinders Lemon Zest, Banner- from Stampin Up - Tasteful Labels

Stamp- Sentiment from Stampin Up Hand Delivered Stamp Set

Ink- Stampin up Daffodil Delight (to shade lemons), and Versa Fine- Onyx Black for sentiment

Accessories- Enamel Dimensional Dots in Gold