Hello there blog friends! Happy Friday from me to you! I'm berry happy it's Friday and berry happy to share this post with you today! Have you had enough of my berry silly humor yet? Okay, I'll stop. But I was cracking myself up right there! LOL. Summer means strawberries and also cute crafty and tasty treats made with strawberries! I have both a card and a treat to share with you today.
I made a card using some awesome Papertrey Ink products, and then I'm also sharing my way of making chocolate covered strawberries - I made some this week for a co-worker's birthday. I hope you have a super fun weekend of Summer stuff planned. Whatever you do, make it memorable!
Here's my card, using Papertrey Ink's Strawberry Patch stamp set and the ultra favorite Quatrefoil Die. All the paper is cream cardstock, not white, for an antique feeling.
I went through ALL my flower doo dads and couldn't find one I liked for this project, so I made my own out of some gingham paper and a punch. I scrunched it up to make it vintage and then added a brad and a pearl. The brad was colored with my Copics to match exactly to my other coloring. The sentiment is also PTI.
Here is a close up of my layers - cream + cream + cream = yummo! I like how this looks and I'll probably do this again.
Here is my Copic palette:
Now for the snack section of our blog post today! Yay! I wanted to make my friend KS some strawberries for her birthday on Wednesday. Hadn't made them in a while and it just sounded so good. Strawberries are in season and there were some beauties at the store...Here they are all washed and ready to go.
Tip #1 - make sure the berries are 100% dry before dipping them in chocolate! If there is any moisture, the chocolate won't stick and the chocolate may seize on you.
Here they are after their first dip into some semi-sweet melted chocolate. Tip #2 - use good chocolate and add a smidge of Crisco to the melting chocolate - it makes them shiny!
And here they are after a little white chocolate drizzle... Tip #3 - let them cool in the fridge completely before adding another layer or a drizzle. Otherwise it all oozes together.
Yup, they were just as delicious as they look!!! You know I had to eat the ugly ones.... Only the best survived the process! Hee hee. (Kinda like eating the rough edges off the rice krispies treats - yeah, you know what I'm sayin')
To package them up for work, I used my trusty cupcake carrier. I put the berries into some pretty, small size cupcake liners so people could pick them up and have some way to hold them....
Thanks berry much for coming by today - you're berry sweet to do so! Okay, I'm done now. Have a great weekend!
Hit post too quickly, your card is so 'sweet', love the Quatrefoil die cut.
Posted by: Tracey McNeely | 06/18/2012 at 05:22 PM
These are so perfect Wanda. Your photography blows me away every time i visit your blog!
Posted by: Tracey McNeely | 06/18/2012 at 05:20 PM
Sigh........your friends are always SO lucky, Wanda! Those chocolate covered strawberries look divine! And your card is absolutely gorgeous! Love all that vintage cream and love the layered die cuts. And that strawberry looks good enough to eat, too!
Posted by: Audrey Pettit | 06/17/2012 at 04:22 PM
Oh my goodness Wanda, your strawberry card is absolutely gorgeous! Your coloring is incredible and I love how you used the quatrefoil die for your back ground and created your own vintage looking flower!
Now I want some chocolate covered strawberries, lol!
Posted by: Lynn Put | 06/17/2012 at 04:08 AM
I come to your blog from the Moxie Fab World Blog Roll and Random.org has chosen your blog for me! And I am verry happy about it!
What a beautiful blog you have!
Just this post - yummy! Amazingcard - I love the gingham flower!
Anni
Posted by: Anni | 06/17/2012 at 02:56 AM
Berry Bootiful card and Berry Belly-icious Berries!
Posted by: Janice Rosenthal Rock | 06/16/2012 at 05:31 PM
Love the card & gingham flower. Strawberries look delicious.
Have a great weekend.
Posted by: CJ | 06/16/2012 at 09:21 AM
You are one multi-talented woman! Your card is just so sweet - beautiful design! Enjoy your weekend!
Posted by: Shannon Fralish | 06/16/2012 at 05:34 AM
LOVE your card is berry berry cute!! I had to pin it, of course!! Have a fabulous weekend and oh my those chocolate covered strawberries look fantabulous!!
Posted by: Natalie | 06/15/2012 at 11:27 AM
Thanks for sharing this beautiful card. The dipped strawberries look cool for the scorchio weekend ahead. 100+??? Yuck!
Posted by: julie | 06/15/2012 at 08:05 AM
GOrgeous card and those strawberries look so delicious!
Posted by: Holly Saveur | 06/15/2012 at 07:36 AM
Oh! my, aren't you the clever one!! I absolutely love this card (the design and the layers, especially) and the clocolate dipped strawberries aren't too bad either!! I'll bet they were delicious!!!
Posted by: Fonda Jo | 06/15/2012 at 07:03 AM
Nice job on both! You know I do not care for strawberies, but I could be a convert after seeing those!
Posted by: Mark | 06/15/2012 at 06:55 AM
Your card is berry darling, Wanda! And the "real" strawberries look delicious - I'll be right over :))
Posted by: Lin | 06/15/2012 at 06:38 AM
Loving all of the layers on your card! Your flower is gorgeous. And your strawberries looks delish- both the paper ones and the chocolate covered ones!
Posted by: Lisa Brown | 06/15/2012 at 05:52 AM
Too cute...Love all the layers!
Posted by: F Bond | 06/15/2012 at 05:51 AM
Good heavens girl! What a card and just look at those strawberries! Okay....if I can get a flight this morning before noon maybe I could be there by....? Save me some berries would you?!? ;) BTW, love how you combined that background die with the strawberry set, they are perfect together!
Posted by: Kathy Martin | 06/15/2012 at 03:23 AM
YUM!! Those strawberries look amazing! The ones on your card too! I love that flower! .... wait.. I think I'm drooling!
Posted by: Susan Martin | 06/15/2012 at 01:56 AM