Guest Designing for Outlawz September Monday Greetings: Strawberry Stitches

Hiho, everyone! How's it all going? Good, I hope!

I am sharing my first of two creations as the September Guest Designer for The Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge.  The Outlawz Challenges is a great online crafting community, free to join, with lots of inspiring challenges and some of the nicest friendliest crafters I've ever known! I have been a member there since Feb. 2019 and it has been all pleasure and no pain. If you are looking for a supportive, no-pressure, create-when-you-can community, check them out!

The first challenge this month is Stitching and is open for 2 weeks from 9/14 to 9/27. You may enter 3 different projects and there must be a greeting or sentiment on your entry. Fabrika Fantasy is the September sponsor and has graciously provided the Design Team digital images to work with. The link to the image I've used is down below in my supplies list.

I decided to take on this Split Coast Stampers sketch from a few weeks ago. I'm still not sure if it was a good idea!  I stretched it in my mind to a 6x6 square card. It's just a weird sketch to me, but it's done now. (I have been trying to use as many sketches from Split Coast as I can, which isn't many so far but I am making a microscopic dent.)

PAPERS:  KI Memories, Springhill and SU card stocks; Studio Calico South of Market 6X6 collection; Kaisercraft Nan's Favourites 6X6 collection
IMAGES/STAMPS:  Fabrika Fantasy Sweet Tooth Hedgehog digital; Papertrey Ink front sentiment; Sugarloaf's Mom's Best back sentiments and images; Hero Arts siggie
INKS:  Printer, Promarkers, Memento, Versamark
DIES:  Avery Elle Signature; MFT Stitched Ric-Rac and Jumbo Fishtail Banner Stax; The Stamps of Life Stitched Rectangles; Lawn Fawn Stitched Cloud; Spellbinders Classic Small Labels
OTHER: Clear embossing powder

We received this cute hedgehog image called Sweet Tooth Hedgehog to create with. I used the pre-colored image but my printer made the berries really dark. I was able to color them a tad lighter and brighter with my Promarker! No kidding, true story. I colored the vine blossom and his cone treat pink - both were originally white, and I colored all the ric-rac die cuts. The strawberries reminded me of the berry paper I had in Studio Calico's South of Market paper collection, but more importantly, they reminded me of all the delicious homemade jars of strawberry fig jam that Honey's mom has supplied us with over the years. So I decided to make her a thank you card.

I wanted to show you how I changed the strawberry punch out that came with the Kaisercraft paper I used a bit of as well. It was not the right shade of red for my card, so I firstr die cut the perimeter of it using an Avery Elle Signature die. Then I got out my darkest red Promarkers and carefully colored, holding my breath, LOL. I then made white seed marks with my Signo gel pen. I think it looks much better!

The inside is lined with more papers. I am working on a little poem telling her how much we appreciate her which I will print out and layer onto the pink paper.

I've had this Sugarloaf stamp set forever and never used it, so I stamped the cook, Mom's Best, jar and the strawberries all in Memento Rhubarb Stalk red ink. The siggie stamp is Hero Arts.

I hope you can join us over at The Outlawz and thank you for allowing me to share my card with you. Have a marvelous week and stay well and safe!

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:
1.  Split Coast Stampers Sketch SC812 -- sketch is shown above

2.  Outlawz Festive Fridays 9/4-9/17 -- Nature theme

3.  Country View September Challenge: Complementary Colors -- I chose the Red/Green combo, also venturing into the Pink/Blue Green variation. Here is the challenge's color wheel and 2 others I found when researching complemetary colors:  

    

4.  Creative Fingers #192: AAG

5.  CHNPPC September Challenge: AAG w/Patterned Paper

6.  Scrapping4Fun #175: AG  

7.  2 Crafty Critter Crazies September: AG w/A Critter -- Hedgehog

8.  Crafty Animals Challenge #42: AG w/Animal -- Hedgehog

9.  Crazy 4 Challenges #C4C552: Stripes - create a card that includes stripes! Create your own striped background by using paper scrap strips; striped stamps or patterned paper. -- I created my own striped background using paper scrap strips.

10.  NBUS Challenge #18: AG w/Never Before Used Schtuff -- this is my first time using my new MFT Stitched Ric-Rac die