Strawberry Season

Don't you just love strawberry season? I don't think there's anything in the world that so perfectly epitomizes June as strawberries. I'd seen some paper piecing done to look like little petit fours in wrappers, and I thought- "What sheer Genius!" and promptly set about creating my own, only I opted for my favorite seasonal tea time treat- chocolate dipped strawberries in paper crimped circle nestability papers.  I really love Crafty Secrets French Mail stamp, I think the little kewpie postman makes this card look like a delivery straight from your favorite patisserie. Mm, I think I may wander to the farm down the road and buy a few berries from their stand now...

Materials:
MME Wild Asparagus Maroon Floral Paper
Basic Grey LilyKate Posey Paper
Basic Grey Infuse Suffuse Paper
Basic Grey Infuse Stew Paper
Brown Cardstock
Worldwin White VellumPrima Ivory Flower Mix
Fancy Pants Ribbon Crush
Copic R81 Rose Pink
Copic E15 Dark Suntan
Copic R29 Lipstick Red
Paper Crimper
Corner Rounder
Archival Brilliance Graphite Black
Distress Ink Vintage Photo
EK Success Corner Adorner
Foam Dots
Dot ‘n Roller
Stapler
Crafty Secrets French Mail Stamp Set
A*muse Berry Much Stamp
Classic Scallop Circle Nestabilities
Classic Heart Nestabilities
Flower Creations 3 Spellbinders Die (discontinued, I think)
Fall Harvest Spellbinders Die (also discontinued, I think)
Cut a 4.25 by 5.5 out of the pink paper.
Punch each corner with the corner adorner punch.
Cut a 4 by 5.25 out of the floral paper and insert into the pink panel.
Tint the little white flowers with pink marker.
Age the shipping tag with brown ink and then stamp Berry Much and the little postman kewpie in black on it.
Thread 4 inches of dark velvet ribbon through the tag’s hole and staple it in place.
Cut 2 hearts of the same size: one out of the red distressed look paper and one out of brown cardstock.
Cut the top off of the brown heart in a wavy line then attach the bottom to the red heart to create a “chocolate dip”.
Corner round the bottom points of the hearts.
Use Floral Creations 3 to cut two green leaves to attach to the strawberry’s top.
Cut and emboos a pumpkin from the Fall Harvest die out green cardstock, then trim off the pumpkin part and attach the stem on top of the strawberry leaves.
Shade and create seeds on the strawberry using markers.
Cut a medium sized scallop circle out of the pink patterned paper, and a slightly smaller one out of white vellum.
Run the scallops through a paper crimper, then nest them together to create a wrapper for the finished strawberry to sit on.
Mount the strawberry on the scalloped circles using foam dots to create some dimension.
Attach the tag, tiny white flower, and scallop circles to the card panel, then attach the finished panel to the front of your card base.
C’est fine :-)