How to easily create a Strawberry from and Ornament die for Valentine’s Day

Hi Everyone, it is Renee’ with Delaney Jane Cards today
sharing a super fun project with you all.

I used an older die that I had in my stash which was
designed to make a Christmas ornament and I made a strawberry to hold some
lovely chocolates… maybe for your love interest?

 

 

 I really loved
creating this outside the box … box. The project was super simple. I used
several ScraPerfect projects to get the look and feel I wanted. I also used the
Best Glue Ever (BGE) to adhere my plastic ornament closed. Not many adhesives
will adhere plastic to plastic but this one did the trick for sure!

The very first thing I did once I die cut the ornament from
some crystal clear transparency sheet was to paint BGE onto the pieces that
would be in the back of the ornament. YES, PAINT! I used a paint brush to
spread a super thin coat onto those two back diamond shapes and I let the
adhesive dry.

BGE turns clean when it dries and that is what I was looking
for.  It also becomes tacky. This makes
several techniques possible, including foiling. I used the ScraPerfect Transfer
foil sheets to foil the two diamonds. Once they were all covered in sparkly
foil I turned the whole piece over and foiled the back of these diamond shapes
using the same process. I wanted a finished look instead of the underside of
the foil showing through the clear transparency.

 

 

Once I had all my pink foiling done on the ornament I added
some BGE in the shapes of strawberry seeds to the part of the ornament I had
left clear. Just some simple lines of BGE were all I needed. Then I sprinkled
on some microbeads in black from the ScraPerfect Tiny Taller Bottles of
Embellies. These were super tiny (micro) beads in black. I sprinkled them over
the BGE and then sprinkled on some onyx glitter to fill in the rest of the
adhesive where the beads did not adhere.

While this dried I worked on the top of my berry. I had die
cut 4 small white tags from a little tag die from the same die set and I
applied BGE on those with the same paint brush. I didn’t fully cover the tags because
I wanted to add some distress ink for interest after. Once I pressed the green
foil onto the tiny tags I ink blended over this whole thing. The foil acts like
a resist to the ink. It does not change color but the white cardstock does. I
adhered the four small tags together using BGE and set this whole thing aside
to dry.

I adhered the “strawberry” together using BGE as well. I
spread a layer of the BGE on the flap of transparency that is used to close up
the box and it stuck perfectly! I made sure to let it “dry” to the clear tacky
state before adhering it. It worked so well.

 

Once I had the bottom of the box adhered together I put my
two pieces of candy inside. I chose red candies because this is, after all, a
strawberry!  I strung a piece of thin
silver thread through the holes at the top of the ornament and tied it all
closed.  After tying it all closed I
threaded that top of the strawberry onto the silver thread. And then added the
cute tag I stamped in red.

 

I love how this turned out and really enjoyed making
something so different from an ornament die.
I’m completely out of the pink foil now and I know I’ll be reordering it
soon because it is so much fun.

 

 

If you’d like to see how this project was created and a video is more helpful, her is a video link to my channel Delaney Jane Cards :  https://youtu.be/3XBs_OwVdwQ