Country Fruit Basket Birthday Card -- Honey Bee Stamps

Hello crafty friends!  Today I'm here to share all of the fun details of this card I made with Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers: Berry Basket Honey Cuts.  Our team has made some awesome cards using this set, so I wanted to think of a way to make my card a bit different.  I had this great idea to use the Lovely Layers: Wrap It Up bow and some gingham paper and I love how this turned out!

I had a very busy day yesterday with every-day-life stuff and let me tell you, this card came together so easily!  I die cut red, blue, green, and Kraft cardstock with the dies in the Lovely Layers: Berry Basket set.

The lemon is from the Lovely Layers: Citrus set and one I had saved from a previous project!  I love having these random pieces ready to use!  After I added darker inks to the fruits and basket with blending brushes for dimension, I used Bee Creative glue to adhere the layers together.

Next I die cut the Lovely Layers: Wrap It Up bow from a piece of gingham paper in the Perfect Picnic paper pad.  So that the reverse pattern of the paper wouldn't show on the inside of the bow loops, I just flipped that paper over to die cut another layer of the bow loops.  Then I glued the two pieces together with the gingham pattern facing out.  I assemble the bow with glue and use my reverse tweezers to hold the bow in the center until the glue was dry.

I glued the ribbon portion of the Bow to the Berry Basket and used my scissors to trim off the excess on each side of the basket.  Then I glued the bow to the basket.

I just love this patterned paper I used from the Perfect Picnic paper pad.  It has just enough of the blurry look to appear as if it's in the background behind the Berry Basket!  I trimmed just 1/8" of an inch from the top and one side to create just a slim white border on the A2 card.

I stamped two of the sentiments from the Berry Sweet Summer stamp set with black pigment ink.  I cut them out with the coordinating Berry Sweet Summer Honey Cuts and use foam strips and glue to adhere them to my card.

I think this gingham bow makes this into the cutest little fruit basket that might be found on a roadside stand!  What do you think?

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