Sunday 23 February 2020

Fruit

The theme for the Twofer Challenge this month is 'Fruit'.  Two different designs, for two different occasions, using the same stamp, die or stencil.  I didn't think I would be able to join in this month, but found a stamp with two small olives on a stick in the Stampin' Up 'Sip Sip Hooray' set.  It's quite tiny and it took a bit of thinking how I could use it other than in a cocktail glass.  However, when I looked again at the olives, they reminded me of a pair of quirky looking eyes.


Here is a close up of the olives/quirky looking eyes.

I am joining in the Twofer Challenge with this pair of cards.



My first card is a CAS congratulations card.  The cocktail glass stamp is from the same set of stamps as the olives, stamped with Memento 'London Fog'.  After stamping the olives, I made a mask to cover them before adding the 'liquid' to the glass with a pink metallic ink pad.  I then coloured the olives with a green Promarker.  The grey sentiment is a stamp from the SU 'Happiness Surrounds' set.

I am joining in the following challenges with this card:



I don't think there can be a child in the UK who doesn't know Eric Carle's story, 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'.    Although it was written over 50 years ago, it was always a favourite with the four and five year olds I used to teach.    The 'quirky olive eyes' were perfect for him. I stamped them on green card and fussy them individually and matted them on scraps of yellow card.  The head was an oval die cut and I used a punch for the oval body parts, in two shades of green.  The feet, nose and antennae were all cut by hand.   I added hairs on the back of the caterpillar with green and red fineliner pens.   The sentiment is a stamp from the SU 'Confetti Celebration' set of stamps, coloured with Promarkers.  Three Card Candi finished off my card.   All the card I used was snippets, apart from the red card base, so I'll be sharing my card over in the Playground. 


I am joining in the following challenges with this card. 






36 comments:

  1. Two fantastic cards Liz and who would have thought that a pair of olives would look like eyes, but they really do!! I love your pretty drink and then the fun way you have put together the caterpillar and the cleverly cut and added the nose, antennae and feet. x

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  2. Fabulous cards Liz, love those eyes.xx

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  3. One sophisticated cocktail card and one fun caterpillar card using the same stamp is ingenious Liz wouldn't have thought of that,really clever designs

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  4. What a delighted pair of designs, Liz! Of course, I love your refreshing drinkie-poo! Even though I'm more of a lemon twist kind of girl, your olives look delish! And how innovative of you to turn them into eyeballs for your fun hungry caterpillar! I don't think there's a child on this side of the pond who hasn't loved and worn out that book, too! It's a book I liked as much as Dan did! You went the extra mile with the candi and his little hairs, face, and feet!! Thank you so much for playing in Twofer Card Challenge #24! Hugs, Darnell

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  5. A very pretty feminine creation and a fun one as well and what a clever way to use the olives, lovely to have you join in in with our 'Make it Girly' theme at Allsorts challenge, many thanks.

    B x

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  6. Two great cards and such clever use of that tiny stamp!!

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  7. Two beautiful cards Liz . Love the cocktail class and great masking too.
    Babs x

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  8. wow Liz what great imagination you have - brilliant twofer.Thanks also for joining in with my "make it girly" challenge at Allsorts with your CAS card.
    Lynn x
    DT

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  9. Wow, that is such a creative twofer! Well done Liz! Enjoy the weekend.

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  10. Two fantastic cards Liz, I love the caterpiller one especially.

    Sue xx

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  11. Absolutely brilliant Liz! What a clever take on the challenge and I LOVE your caterpillar!!
    xx

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  12. How fun using the olives as eyes of the caterpillar!! :D Genius! Very creative twofer!!

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  13. Two wonderful creations and what an imaginitave use of that teeny tiny olive stamp xx

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  14. Best ever twofer!! So imaginative with those eyes on your very hungry and colorful caterpillar! Awesome job Liz!

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  15. I love both of your cards. Fantastic idea with the olive eyes. [Bunny]

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  16. Oh, this is so cute! What a unique idea to use for the olives. Both of these are so fun.

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  17. Oh how clever Liz! Your imagination really came up trumps with your hungry caterpillar - brilliant idea to to use the olives stamp as his eyes (equally so on both cards you made for Darnell's challenge).

    First in the Playground I see - Night Owl :)

    Hugs

    Di xx

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  18. Two distinctly different designs here, your olives look like they love resting in that martini...and I have to agree they do make a cute pair of wonky eyes. thanks for joining in at Twofer Card Challenge#24.

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  19. Such clever twofers Liz, definitely thinking outside the box! Love both cards.
    Faith x

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  20. You are so clever and artistic! The cards you made are awesome. I love that you made a caterpillar and used the olives for the eyes. So fun!

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  21. Fantastic cards Liz. What a clever idea with the caterpillar!! xx

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  22. Fantastic caterpillar Liz....and clever use of those olives! x

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  23. Two brilliant cards. Way to go on thinking outside the box for the olives as eyes!

    Hugs, Sarn x

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  24. You are so clever Liz and so very creative....fabulous cards, both of them and a fun caterpillar card x.

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  25. Awesome cards. I like the CAS congrats card. So glad you shared over at Crafty Catz.

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  26. Well you got me on this one Liz! Love your congratulations card with the olives in the drink, but before I started reading your post I couldn't figure out where the olives were until you pointed it out...you were just too clever on this one! LOVE it!! And The Hungry Caterpillar was one of our 3 girls favorite books too! Delightful cards Liz! Thanks so much for sharing with us at The Twofer Challenge!! :0)

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  27. Two fabulous cards Liz, great use of that stamp...very clever!
    Janice x

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  28. Turning olives into the eyes is a real thinking out of the box! :-) I'm admiring your idea as much as your two cards.
    Hugs, Sonja

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  29. Beautiful cards Liz! I specially love the one of the caterpillar, it was one of my daughter's favorite books!

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  30. You are so creative!! The caterpillar card is adorable with the tiny hairs upon his back and I love the eyes! LOL You really knocked the Twofer out of the park with these fun cards :)

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  31. I don't know how I missed these Liz, but I did. Wow, I'm so impressed with your thinking out of the box on this challenge! First off, I adore the first cocktail card, it is awesome and the cocktail is looking pretty yummy too. lol But it is your caterpillar that has me chuckling with his eyes. You are right, the olives made perfect eyes for him! As soon as I saw this card, my mind went right to the book, "A Very Hungry Caterpillar". It is a very popular book here in the US too. Fabulous job with this challenge Liz, I am so loving your Twofer cards! Hugs, Brenda

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  32. The designs are fabulous Liz, especially the caterpillar! You've spent a long time creating it. I love seeing your 'Twofers'

    Sorry I've been missing commenting but, as you know, all down to my health problems

    June x

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  33. Lovely cards.

    Thank you for sharing at Allsorts;-))m

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  34. Very clever use of the stamps Liz! Sometimes we make the best creations when we are challenged! Shabneez x

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  35. Two great cards! Very inventive!
    Thank you for sharing with Addicted to Stamps and More!
    Susan
    Addicted to Stamps and More
    Calling All Crafters! – My personal Blog!

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