Challenge #331 – Fast Fruit the current challenge at As You See It, is a speed challenge, and these always get my adrenaline going. Card took me 9.59 minutes to make so just under the wire to make it work.

Assembling my bits and pieces required a lot of thought as I don’t have much in the way of fruit stamps. I did pull out a very old StampinUp set and tested doing an apple but wasn’t happy, at which point I remembered I had this peach set from MayMay Made It.

Yesterday I had played with cutting out some frames from a pre printed freebie set and I had also played with some backgrounds, one of which I’ve used here. I selected the stamps I wanted to use, placed them in the Misti with some scrap CS, pushed the timer button and began. Stamping the peaches was easy, but stamping the sentiment ended up with a mess. It moved and re-stamping meant a slight double image. I have to remember that the photo CS my hubby shared with me, makes the stamps stick tight. At this point I chose to ignore the timer as it was making me nervous. Instead I took the background and added it to the frame proceeding to fussy cut around it. Not a brilliant job, but not terrible. Then I took the other frame added it to the card front and placed the inked piece as you see. I quickly inked the colours into my peaches and fussy cut them. While they were drying I took a pen and carefully went over the sentiment and hoped it would be okay. I added the peaches, popping up the half one and heaved a huge sigh of relief after looking at the timer and seeing I had made the time frame. The sentiment looks okay and I’m lucky my hands allowed the pen work and the fussy cutting. Some days they do not. Inks used are Dried Marigold and Ripe Persimmon and Ground Expresso Distress Oxides.

Although this card has some rough edges due to how quickly I put it together, I’m not unhappy with it. It is usable and my friends love anything handmade. I really appreciate you stopping by to take a look and I hope that you are enjoying some fun family time. Summer is close to ending which is always bittersweet. We are getting some lovely sunshine and warmth during the day, but it is cooling at night making sleeping much easier.