Real Red Delicious Apples

This is the last of the Tart & Tangy kit cards (there is still one super-cute project that goes along with the kit, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow to see that one!). This one features the apple stamp. With this stamp and the Summer Picnic designer paper, you could either create Red Delicious apples (by using Real Red) or Granny Smith apples (by using Old Olive). This collection of patterned paper has one design of the Real Red apples (shown here) and another with the Old Olive apples! For some reason, the Real Red apples remind me of teacher thank you cards, so thats what I went with for this final project!

For the background of the card, I matted a piece of the red apple patterned paper on to a piece of Real Red cardstock. Next, I mounted a strip of Old Olive 5/8" grosgrain ribbon around the matted patterned paper. Then, I inked the apple stamp with my Real Red and Old Olive Stampin' Write Markers and stamped the image three times on to a piece of Whisper White cardstock. I matted the Whisper White with Old Olive to bring out the color of the stem and leaves and then mounted it on to the card front with dimensionals. I chose this greeting (from a current hostess set that I cannot remember the name of for the life of me!!!) because it fit so well in the Key Tag punch. So I stamped it in Old Olive on to a scrap piece of Whisper White and then I punched it out with the Key Tag punch. The final step in creating this card is to mount the greeting on to the card front with adhesive! Ta-Dah!!!