Sweet On You

I am so incredibly excited to be able to share some of my first projects for the Spellbinders design team!! This duo is a card and a box filled with strawberry flavored Whoppers. The box was made by hand. The lid and base of the box are Label One dies. The lid of the box has a hole cut out using a circle. A scalloped frame was created by cutting a scalloped circle, then cutting a smaller circle out of the center. A piece of acetate was placed on the inside to keep the candy in place.
The strawberries are NOT a die from Spellbinders, but were created using various dies. I have been wanting to create strawberries for quite sometime and after looking at my dies for a while, came up with this idea. I will show you how to make your own berries:

Start with Petite Ovals. I chose this piece of patterned paper for its color and texture. Cut and emboss the oval.

One of the very cool features of Spellbinders die templates, is that you can cut again and again, just lay the paper over the cutting or, rough edge. So, to get the round looking top of the berry, I placed my petite oval on the cutting edge, or rough edge, of a larger oval from the same set of Petite Oval Nestabilities. I chose a larger oval, because it had more of the curve I was desiring.

Here is the cut oval. Imagine the possibilities with making more than one cut...(oh I did and there will be more ideas to come! :))

To create a stem, I noticed this flower from the Flower Creations die.

Always place your patterned paper face down. Which means, put the pattern you want showing down. Once I cut it out, I realized that 1. it had a hole in it and 2. it looked too much like a flower.

To solve this dilemma, I cut the stem in half, just below the hole.

Then I glued the smaller half of the flower over the hole and viola, stem! :)

Here is a closer look at the finished strawberries. I inked all the edges of the berries and the stems. The stems were also stamped with a pattern to give the paper some interest. I added accents with a white paint pen to give the berries some illusion of shine. Small buttons were threaded with twine to give a country, homey feel.
I hope you enjoyed seeing this project. I had so much fun creating it and I hope it inspires you to look at your dies differently! thanks SO much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Spellbinders Die Templates- Labels One, Petite Ovals Large, Flower Creations, Classic Circles Small, Classic Scalloped Circles Small, Double Ended Tags

Patterned paper-My Mind's Eye (Penny Lane Free Bird and Feeling Groovy)

Stamps-Taylored Expressions (A Year of Sweetly Stamped Sentiments), Hero Arts (Four Leaf Grid)

Ink-Clearsnap (Colorbox Ink-Citrine, Peony/Colorbox Chalk-Creamy Brown, Dark Brown)

Buttons-Basic Grey (Stella Ruby)

Twine-Wright's

Cardstock-Papertrey Ink (Kraft)