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Samantha’s Grape-tastic Birthday Card

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We can’t wait to see your Challenge 129 – Fun with Food creativity! This challenge will be open until Sunday, July 31 at 11:59PM ET. Let’s see who has the recipe for crafty fun!

Samantha joins us today with adorable inspiration! Her grape-themed design is so cute with its punny greeting!

This adorable cluster of smiley-faced grapes was stamped using Be Hap-pea! Samantha colored them in shades of purple using Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. Then she arranged them with leaves and a “stem” from A Bug Deal!

She inked up the background with Distress Oxide inks (see supply list below for the colors she used). Then she finished this adorable birthday card with a punny custom sentiment using Harold’s ABCs.

Thanks so much for this charming inspiration, Samantha!

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You still have 5 days to enter the Fun with Food challenge! Who knows, you could be the lucky random winner!

Samantha’s “Friend-ly” Lobsters!

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We hope you are having fun with the Inspired by a Book, Movie or Song challenge and we can’t wait to see your creativity! This challenge will be open until Sunday April 3 at 11:59PM ET.

Samantha was inspired by the TV show Friends to create her fun card!

In this “Friends” inspired design, Samantha used an iconic line by Phoebe as the theme of her card! She used the lobster from You Are Sublime, mirror stamping one so they can face each other, and the couch from Window Scene: Winter. The umbrellas are from Beary Rainy Day!

For the title and sentiment, Samantha combined Henry’s ABCs dies and Harold’s ABCs!

Thanks so much for inspiring us with your amazing design, Samantha!

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Samantha’s Avocado Pun Inspired Card

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We are loving the yummy projects filling the Fun with Food gallery! This challenge will be open until Sunday August 1 at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see how you are inspired by this theme!

Hi friends, it’s Samantha! I had so many avocado puns floating around in my head, so I knew I had to make an avocado themed card!

I used the cute avocado and toaster images from Let’s Toast to feature on my card! They were colored in with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then fussy cut out. I heat embossed the custom, punny phrase with my all time, long time, favorite stamp set Harold’s ABCs! To add the sentiment I used a banner die cut from Black Licorice Cardstock with the Fancy Wavy Banners! I just LOVE the dimension that banner brings to the card!

For the background, I used the Simple Stripes: Diagonal to die cut out from white cardstock. Then I used Distress Oxide Inks in Blueprint Sketch and Cracked Pistachio on every other stripe! For the other stripes, I used Narwhal ink to add some soft, light gray to the edges! Then I splattered water on top of it all. Those bold stripes are my FAVORITE! I love the different techniques you can do with them, and how they make your images pop!

Thanks so much for sharing your punny card with us today, Samantha! I love it!

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Looking forward to being inspired by your Fun with Food challenge entries! Happy Crafting!