First Day of Summer Citrus with Wanda

Happy first day of Summer! Wanda is here today with a gorgeous project that will make your mouth water…perfect for this first day of summer!

Hello there my sweet crafty Greetery friends! Wanda here on the blog today to share a fun, bright and zesty card! It feels like Summer and that makes me in the mood for fun colors and lemonade! I mixed and matched lots of my favorite Greetery products to make a cheerful Summer note sure to liven up any mailbox. I’m featuring the citrus dies from the Baby Face Orange set and the Lemon Blossom set. I think the Patchwork Die in sky blue makes the perfect background….

I started by die cutting several oranges and lemons, and lots of leaves too, using bright cardstocks. I used a blender brush and Distress Inks to ink blend on some shading to the dies. I also splattered on a bit of white paint. I die cut the Ruscus Die from vellum to add more foliage to my fruit cluster. I die cut out some pink flowers from the Lemon Blossom Dies and added white enamel dots to the centers. 

For the sentiment I used one of my favorite Greetery sentiment sets: Opposites Attract. I stamped the ‘just a note’ in black and die cut it with the matching die. It’s such a pretty and happy font. The fun part was assembling the card together with all those elements. Here’s what I do: I play around with everything and the placement until I get it the way I like it. Then I take a quick photo with my iPhone to use as my guide to affixing it all. I used foam circles to pop everything up off the background.

That’s it for my project today! Hope you have a wonderful day. I look forward to sharing with you again soon. In the meantime, keep on crafting! XO Wanda