Hello! I’m back today with lots of cards and fun fruit patterns. 🍊🍋🍉🍓 I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire, who shared an amazing idea on her blog a few weeks ago. 😍

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On her post, Jennifer showed many different patterns and ideas for die-cut window cards. I loved that post so much, I think I watched the video at least three times! It was so inspiring and beautiful, that I knew immediately that I want to try this technique myself. I had so much fun, that I got a little carried away and created many cards at once. Some of them have die-cut windows, while the others are just one-layer cards. 🙂

Here’s one of the one-layer cards that I made – isn’t it fun? 🤩

For all of my cards, I used the LDRS Creative Just A Note stamp & die set, that I got on the Crop & Create Delivered March 2022 kit. I used inks from Gina K. Designs and Altenew to stamp the fruits (see below the exact colors that I used). The sentiments are from three different stamp sets (see below).

To create the patterns, I followed Jennifer’s tutorial – first, I die cut lots of fruits, and then I used the die cuts to make a “template” of the pattern that I wanted on my cards. Then, I used it to position the stamps in my MISTI stamping tool, to create the pattern on a new white panel. To shorten the process, I stamped multiple stamps at once, as you can see in this photo. (TIP: make sure the stamps are far from each other, so that you won’t accidentally ink them in the wrong colors…)

Like I said, I left some of the panels alone, but on some of them I created die-cut windows.

Die-Cut Windows Cards

Once the patterns were ready on the white panels, I used the matching dies to create the “windows”. Here are the cards that I made:

On this card, I die cut the lemon slice right above the sentiment:

Here you can really see how the lemon peeks through the window from the inside of the card:

And on this one, I die cut the orange on the top left edge:

On this card, I die cut two lemon slices – one from each row:

For extra dimension and interest, I added a few die-cut fruits on some of the stamped images.

I created some more similar cards to these, and then went to finish the one-layer cards.

One-Layer Cards

I created two very similar “full fruit pattern” cards. Here’s the light red version:

And here’s the green version:

My favorite is the one with the light red base, which one is yours? 🙂

Next, I created a one-layer version to the citrus diagonal pattern cards:

And I also created a fun watermelon version!

I still have so many die cuts, I’m going to make many fruit cards soon! 😋

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Have a great weekend! ❤️

– Michal

Supplies

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• LDRS Creative Just A Note Stamp Set
• LDRS Creative Just A Note Die Set
• Ink Colors:
  • Watermelon and Strawberry: Gina K. Designs Lipstick, Gina K. Designs Grass Green, Versafine Onyx Black
  • Orange: Gina K. Designs Sweet Mango (for the peels), Altenew Sunkissed
  • Lemon: Gina K. Designs Lemon Drop, Gina K. Designs Wild Dandelion (for the peel on the sliced lemon)
• Hero Arts Special Thank You Stamp Set
• MFT Stamps Bitty Birtdhay Wishes Stamp Set
• MISTI Stamping Tool
• SCT Exclusive 100lb Cover White Cardstock