This sunny yellow lemon card from Mindy uses stamps and dies from Gina K. She used different ink pad colors to add shading to the stamped lemons and leaves. Watch her video tutorial on the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog.
With Summer here everything is growing and blooming and it’s the perfect time of year for fruit. Not just for eating but for crafting too, it seems to be a popular trend this year. There are so many new fresh and fruity stamps and dies you can use to create delicious handmade cards with. So today let’s take a look at some fabulous fruity card ideas!
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This card was created using layering stamps, this style of stamp makes it easy to add shading and quick color, use a stamping platform for easier placement. I love the puny sentiment! Find more card ideas with this cherry set on the Hero Arts blog.
This juicy peach card from Kimberly has stamped peaches colored with Distress Ink pads and water. The wonderful background is stencil paste through a stencil with green tinsel embossing powder added then heated, so pretty! Find step by step directions on the Ranger Ink blog.
The Citrus Crush bundle allows you to stamp or die cut whole or sliced lemons, oranges and limes for some yummy summery card designs. There’s also funny sentiments too! I spotted this card on the Concord and 9th Instagram page.
How lovely are the soft pink and green pastel colors Tenia used on this citrus card? She used watercolors to color in her heat embossed stamped images, adding a sentiment, die cut hearts and tiny embellishments. Take a closer look at the Unity Stamps blog.
Kelly used dies to create this delicious basket full of apples card. She cut them from white cardstock adding color with ink blending for really realistic looking fruit. There’s a subtle stenciled background and stamped sentiment too. Learn more at The Greetery blog.
This darling girl and her kitten are in the grove picking lemons on this beautiful summery card. The squeeze the day set features the girl, lots of kittens and loads of lemons along with fun sentiments to create cheerful scene cards. This set come from Sweet November stamps.
This fun cards has cute mice playing among bunches of grapes. The stamped images were colored with OLO alcohol based markers along with stenciled hills and a stamped and die cut sentiments in a rich burgundy to match the grapes. Watch a video tutorial over on the Lawn Fawn blog.
The Summertime Citrus Twist embossing folder creates the perfect sweet and sour backgrounds for summery cards. This card has half an embossed panel with separate citrus slices cut and layered on. Bold inks added bright colors to the fruit. Find 10 more idea with this folder on the Spellbinders blog.
Different die cut fruits decorate the top of this delicious slice of birthday cake on a card from Keiko. To add shimmer and shine she used glitter and heat embossing to the fruit and whipped cream and heat embossed the sentiment for a card that looks good enough to eat! Learn more at the Honeybee Stamps blog.
This fabulous fruit card from Isha has a stunning background created with inking and paste through a striped stencil. She used coordinating stencils to color in the stamped fruits too. Find step by step directions over on the Pinkfresh Studio blog.
Here’s another beautiful card, this time from Caly, made with an embossing folder. These raised lemon images are colored in yellow and green watercolors. A few gems, thread and a heat embossed sentiment finish off the design. Take a closer look at the Simon Says Stamp blog.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this sweet look at some trendy fruity card designs!
-Heather
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