~ The Sweet Smells of Summer – Blog Hop ~
June 8th, 2010 by Holly McMillen
Hello friends!
Welcome to the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store Design Team’s June hop! This month our theme is “The Sweet Smells of Summer“. If you’ve arrived here from Deborah Saaranen’s blog, then you are in the right spot! If not, I suggest you start back at Sharon’s Stamp Simply Ribbon Store blog so that you don’t miss anything!
When we were discussing what theme we should use for this month, my suggestion was Americana. When I think of summer, the things that come to mind are July 4th, picnics, BBQs and family reunions. I was thinking Americana would work for any of those. Well, the other day, my aunt and I were talking about how my mom would drag us all out to Watsonville (in CA) each summer to pick strawberries for preserves. My mom’s preserves were famous. Not because they were “smuckerlike”, but because they always tended to be a little runny. They were absolutely perfect for putting on fresh hot waffles!
So, for today’s project, I created a basket of strawberries. They are fresh picked and ready to can! 🙂 Can you smell them?
The strawberry pattern came from Sherry Brickey at Paperscrapz. You can find it HERE.
The basket is woven with 1/4″ pieces of Garden Green card stock. I scored them on one end to secure them to the basket bottom I created. Alternating from one side to the other, I created the vertical slats first. Then I used a piece of Garden Green cardstock cut at 1″ to wrap around the top to secure the top of the slats. lastly, I cut 1/4″ x 12″ pieces to weave around the horizontal way. It was a bit tricky, but after the pieces are all together, you can make adjustments until it looks right.
For my card, I created two strawberries using the small oval punch. Each strawberry is three punched ovals adhered at the tips then snipped off at the top. I freehand cut the strawberry leaves and vines.
Here are my deets:
Stamps: Just Rite’s Seeds of Kindness (medallion on basket); Just Rite’s Friendship set (sentiment ring on card) ~ both from Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.
Colors: GP White, Garden Green, Real Red, Pink Paislee 365 degrees dp
Ink: Always Artichoke, Versamark, Tim Holtz tea bag distressing ink
Accessories: 1.25″ wide crochet lace, 1/8″ red and green satin ribbon, red/off white gingham ribbon, white brads, white candy dots (colored with copic marker to match the garden green), circle punches, scalloped circle punch, sticky tape, scoring blade, hole punch, sponge, swiss dots embossing folder, circle nesties, scalloped circles nesties. eyelet border punch, ribbon threading punch, dimensionals
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Ok, now for some fun stuff! One lucky hopper is going to win the new Cappella Kit that is shown above. How we do this is… after the cut off time (see Sharon’s blog), a random number is chosen that corresponds to one of the blogs in the hop. Then another number is chosen based on the comments on that blog, to determine the winner. So, though it’s not required, you’re best served to comment on all the blogs to increase your chances of winning this awesome candy!
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Sharon is offering 20% off of all JustRite products in her store HERE. The sale runs thru Monday June 14th at 8am. You can e-mail your orders to Sharon at [email protected]
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BLOGS IN THIS HOP:
Sharon Johnson – Stamp Simply Ribbon Store blog
You’ve come to the end of the hop!! We thank you so very much for hopping along with us today. Blessings, all!
Holly
Love the clean fresh crisp look of these pieces.
Linbyx
Totally adorable designs Holly, love the strawberry theme, so sweet . . . . pardon the pun . . . LOL . . . hugs, Jerri
These are over the top “sweet” Holly! I love the yummy strawberry theme, the red and white colors together are so fresh! Fabulous!
I LOVE THIS!!!! girl.. you always come up with the best idea’s….. really adorable – Linda Duke
Brilliant !!! The colors are so fresh and bright, so pretty !!
Hi there Holly!! Long time no see…I love your project here what a great gift idea! The strawberries are perfect (the ones you made out of paper) LOL! The card, another beauty! Hope you and yours are doing well!
Gasp! These are unbelievable! The colors are so “strawberry”, with the red and green. And the DSP is a great setting. Love it!
I just ADORE this! The bold strawberries with the crisp white is just perfect!
What a great project. Our family picked strawberries this year. What great memories and a wonderful card!
This is a happy fun summer card! Love the strawberries and all of the bright colors you used.
First of all, YUM! Your strawberry card and basket are just darling!
Your lovely designs are lip-smacking sweet!! Just couldn’t get enough of looking at this lovely summer eye-candy.
Lovely!
How cute and clever. Love those strawberries.
Your card and little bag are just so sweet! You are so talented. I really love all the little touches on your card. TFS and have a wonderful day.
LOVE LOVE LOVE those darling strawberries! That basket? OH MY HECK – what a wonderful job you’ve done weaving this!!!
Takes me back to when we used to go and pick strawberries on a strawberry farm when I was a little girl.
What great projects-crisp summery colors–I can almost smell the strawberries!
Holly, I can smell and taste those strawberries. Absolutely beautiful card. This brings back so many memories of my Mom and Dad. Dad would grow and pick, and Mom would make preserves. We enjoyed that for so many years. I really miss it and them, now. Thanks, for the memories!
I just want strawberries now! Very nice!
Beautiful Summer colors. Thanks so much for sharing the info for the strawberries. They and the basket are just the cutest!
Love the colors you have used and the strawberries . . . . just beautiful!
This set is incredible- I’m still marveling at the basket and the strawberries! What a lovely way to give some summer gifts!
What a pretty card. I like how you kept the embossed dots on different layers. It really pulled your card together. The whole thing is so summery. Strawberries happen to be one of the best smells of summer to me.
I love it! Thanks for sharing
Your card and basket set are so fresh and sweet! Love the paper and colours you used.
Thanks for sharing! :o)
Love those strawberries, Holly! Fabulous! Our patch is producing and it is so much fun to go out and pick a few. Love the basket – you are so good at making 3D items! And yes, I can smell those strawberries all the way from here LOL!
Holly your project is FABULOUS! It’s so creative and just perfect!!!
This is just wondeful!! Thanks for sharing all the details! Love the red and white – so fresh and summery : )
Wow! Gorgeous set! I had fresh strawberries for breakfast and was thinking about the sights and smells of summer. Thanks for round two of summer smells. Hee hee!
Sharon L
Love those strawberries! And you had my mouth watering at the description of your mom’s preserves and those waffles…yum!
Mmmm, fresh, bright and Delish!
Fabulous project and card, Holly! The basket of strawberries is amazing and each detail of your presentation is perfect! Looks so yummy!
I am loving this!! What a wonderful idea and how fun!! You thought of everything. You can almost smell them. I love all the details!!
What a cute card and basket! The color combination is delightfully fresh and crisp!
YES! Strawberries! My fav! Love your project, all the details, very cool! I love that plant/harvest saying on the medallion too.
I love how you made the strawberries – you are so clever! Charming card, so fresh and summery!
Holly such an awesome card. The strawberry looks good enough to eat. I loved visiting your blog and I’ll be back again soon.
LynneZ
Gorgeous set!!
love it!
You are my inspiration to pull out and use my Spellbinders dies!
Thank you!
Sandra
I just love your project. Your strawberries are super. I would have never thought of that. I think it will be fun to make them since I love strawberries. Thanks for sharing your artwork with us.
Wow! Girl, you went the extra mile on this one! Great job! Love the colors!
Your projects are just out of this world beautiful!
Great ideas!
take care,
Debbie Reaves
Yes, I can just smell them! Beautiful card.
OMG! This is sooooooooo sweet and pretty!! Love it!
Wow, Holly! WOW! This is so gorgeous!
Beautiful card .I can taste those sweet strawberries now .Thanks for sharing
Marilyn
What a great box! Can definitely taste those strawberies
wow Holly, those strawberries look so real, yummy card!
enjoy *~*
This card is not only creative but also just about the cutest one I have seen!! Perfect for the summer theme.
Love your card — The strawberries look good enough to eat! The card is gorgeous.
Love the strawberry card and basket. Soooo sweet! You know I do love next to the strawberry capital of the world in Plant City, FL.
God bless!
I could just pluck those strawberry right off that card and eat them they look so delicious! So fresh looking and a great colour combo. Red and green can be so hard to put together without looking christmassy but you’ve done a great job. Thanks for sharing!
The stamping with white ink and the lace are beautiful-what a striking card. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Wonderful project! Those ‘berries’ make me smile! Great idea, and what fun – thanks for sharing!
What a talent you have! I would not have thought to make the strawberries that way. Wow, what an imagination! Thanks for the inspiration.
Your projects made me so happy! Cute, cute, cute. Shelly K
LOVE this card. Strawberries are so summer to me and the way you created yours is just so cute and creative.
This is so cute! I love the strawberries and the card and the basket ia adorable!
Adorable!! Your hard work shows in this card. Love strawberries!!!
I am always wowed by your work and today is no exception! tfs Holly!! 😀
Nothing says summer like fresh strawberries! This is a wonderful card and project. Thanks for sharing.
Love your design. Its soooo summery. I really like everything about it!
Wow! I love your projects. The colors and details are all beautiful! I can almost taste the strawberries. Thanks for sharing your talents.
Fantastic! Such beautiful colors and I absolutely love the ribbon! 🙂 The strawberries look like you could eat them right from the picture! TFS!
Great bright colors.
Oh, your card is so nice and summery — brings thoughts of sunshine on this cool rainy day. Great idea for creating the strawberries.
This is BEAUITUL!! LOVE the basket and the red, green and white.
Hi Holly~
How great to find you here! I had no idea!
I love your basket of strawberries…so red!
Of course, I would have to turn them on top of some sponge cake with ice cream and whipped cream!
Delicious card!
He IS Able,
Traci S.
Berry Pretty!
Wow! your creations are amazing!! Great color choices, and such creativity!! And so definitely summer: thanks for sharing your great talent!
Amazing card. Quite beautiful.
thanks for sharing.
All I can say is WOW!!! what fabulous colors and everything about it is fabulous.
Love this strawberry card! Lots of terrific details!
DeniseB
This is just stunning and so inspiring. Love the colors, texture, and details. The card is so refreshing.
What a fabulous card Holly! Love that image… great colors… and pretty lace! :o)
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