Basket of Berries

#stampinup #faithfulinkspirations One of the funnest (is that a word?) suites in the Occasions catalog is the Tutti-Frutti Suite. I love everything about it–particularly the bold, bright colors! Today’s project is one that I CASEd almost in its entirety from one of the displays at the OnStage Live event. It was too cute to pass up!

I started by making a crate out of a piece of Wood Textures Designer Series Paper using the Wood Crate Framelits. I loved that DSP and the framelits as soon as I saw them and I’m always looking for fun ways to use them.

Next, I made a tag to tie onto a cello bag full of red candies. I stamped six strawberries from the “Fruit Basket” stamp set onto a scrap strip of Whisper White Card Stock. The fruit is Real Red Ink and the stems are Emerald Envy Ink. I punched these out with the matching strawberry punch from the Itty Bitty Fruit Punch Pack. Ah-dorbs!!

Then I stamped the fruit bowl outline in Early Espresso Ink onto a Whisper White scrap and filled it in with the “filler” stamp in Crumb Cake Ink. I fussy cut the fruit bowl with my Paper Snips.

I cut a Whisper White Circle with one of the circle Stitched Shapes Framelits and cut a Lemon Lime Twist scallop circle with one of the Layering Circles Framelits. I stamped the sentiment from the “Fruit Basket” stamp set in Real Red onto the stitched circle.

I used three Stampin’ Dimensionals, placed near the bottom, to adhere the bowl to the Whisper White circle. I used Glue Dots to adhere three of the strawberries directly to the circle and then used Mini Dimensionals to adhere the remaining three strawberries. I tucked each of the strawberries into the bowl as I went.

I then punched a 2″ strip of the Tutti-Frutti Designer Series Paper with the Scallop Tag Topper Punch at the top and with the Banner Triple Punch at the bottom. I used Stampin’ Dimensionals to adhere the circle piece to the tag. I tied the tag onto the bag of candy with a length of Lemon Lime Twist Mini Striped Ribbon. Isn’t this just the cutest thing??!!

Come back tomorrow for a super-duper cute card using this same set and DSP!!!

tams# 20362

Product List

Fruit Basket Photopolymer Bundle [145977] $35.00	Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad [126949] $6.50	Emerald Envy Classic Stampin’ Pad [141396] $6.50	Early Espresso Classic Stampin’ Pad [126974] $6.50
Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ Pad [126975] $6.50	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [100730] $9.00	Lemon Lime Twist 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [144245] $8.00	Tutti-Frutti 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [145606] $10.00
Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack [144177] $10.00	Wood Crate Framelits Dies [143730] $30.00	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] $30.00	Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705] $35.00
Tag Topper Scalloped Punch [133324] $23.00	Banner Triple Punch [138292] $23.00	Lemon Lime Twist 3/8″ (1 Cm) Mini Striped Ribbon [145611] $8.00	Gusseted Cellophane Bags [141704] $4.50
Paper Snips Scissors [103579] $10.00	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $4.00	Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals [144108] $4.00