Hello … bonjour! It’s the 10th of the month … and that means we have a delicious new challenge for you at Twofer! This month we’re inviting you to be healthy with …
I chose to get all zesty and zingy with citrus fruits … using a stamp from Ellen Hutson‘s Rustic Botanicals (now retired) as my common image … one conventional, one unconventional. Here’s a closer look at each card …
A lower third design on a scalloped panel, with stamped and die cut slices of lemon, lime and orange … together with a few stamped mint leaves (Papertrey) … all ready for dressing some long cool drinks. I stamped the sentiment from Ellen Hutson (kind of mouthwatering!) … and finished off with a few gems on the fruit.
I made my unconventional design a one layer card … with central images and a border along the top …
… and turned the citrus slices into retro Christmas baubles, hanging from some Stampendous pine branches, all silver heat embossed. The baubles were watercoloured in pastel shades and were dressed with glittery Nuvo drops … and they’re attached to the branches with hand drawn silver cords. The sentiment in pink is from Waltzingmouse Stamps (NLIB).
How would you like to join us with your two distinctly different takes on fruit … we’d love to see what you create in our gallery! All the details about how to play along, including rules and FAQs are at the Twofer blog … together with heaps of brilliant ideas from the DT to inspire you. Our talented Guest Designer this month is Sonja from Old Punca … do go over and enjoy a wander through her blog … you’ll have a wonderful time exploring … and you can always say hello while you’re there!
My juicy fruits are joining in at …
AAA Cards – Up To One Third … no hearts option
Happy Little Stampers CAS – Positive … a day bursting with joy is!
Happy Little Stampers Dies – Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday – Feminine Anything Goes
… and those Christmas baubles will be hanging out at
Happy Little Stampers Christmas – Anything Goes … no Christmas wings option
Uniko – Anything Goes … with the cool winter colour option
Thanks so much for coming by, your visits and comments are always a joy! Anita 🙂
My Papercraft World 
Oh Anita! I think your two fer is fantastic. I like the bright and cheery traditional use for the fruit. The unconventional is so clever! What a creative way to use the fruit. Thanks for sharing how you think outside the box!
Oh so very clever, love the two totally different versions of the same stamp!!
Oh you clever clever girl. Those citrus wheels make such lovely ornaments. You really knocked it out for this challenge. Love that you came up with and unconventional twist.
Boy would I ever like to slip a slice of lemon on a tall, cool glass of gin and lemonade! Especially since you’ve got the fruits ready to go in anticipation of us stopping by for a little drinky-pooh! Very cool CAS card my friend with bright happy colors. Christmas ornaments. Excuse me, can I borrow your brain for a little while? My mojo isn’t anywhere to be found, and I could use a couple of ideas like this one. Christmas ornaments. What a clever, clever, clever idea! Your silver touches are lovely and just right for the season. Those silver branches are perfection. Great cards. Love ’em! Sending hugs. xoxo
Beautiful cards! Wonderfully clean designs and fabulously creative to use the fruit slices as ornaments – outstanding!
Two beautiful cards and a great idea to use the fruits as a christmas tree ball. Gundi
Love your citrus ornaments ! Who knew! A brilliant interpretation!
Oh my….so in love with your sweet silver slices of ornaments, simply genius!!!! Love them both.
Talk about clever! You’ve taken a non-fruit-stamp, turned it into a lemon slice, and then a bauble??!! TWO slices of brilliance, Anita!
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Thanks so much, Michele … you know I love a play on words! Funny isn’t it … I’ve always seen this image as a citrus fruit slice because it goes with the other fruity images in the set … pomegranate, raspberry, blueberry and strawberry. Now you mention it, I guess it could be seen as an unusual, funky flower head of some kind … though, if it was, I couldn’t have used it for my Twofer cards as it wouldn’t have met the prompt requirement. Good thing it’s a citrus slice! Hugs, my friend, Anita 🙂
Your citrus card is fresh and lovely and just perfect for February as it is citrus season in Texas! Very nice card. We are so pleased that you joined us this week at Watercooler Wednesday. Karen – DT
Stylish and fun as ever.
Well, you post made my mouth pucker up…hope you’re happy. Both your cards are so fun and happy and, the good Lord knows, I love citrus of any kind. Really a charming Christmas card, too. One more made before the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Good for you, my friend.
Wonderful fruit projects! There are a lot of vitamins on your blog today. 🙂 Thank you for kind words about my work.
Hugs, Sonja
Such a delicate trio of fruits! Love your design! Thanks for joining AAA Cards! Hugs Åsa
Loving the idea of your first fabulous zingy card being all ready for a long drink…I am in x. How creative to make a Christmas card from the citrus fruit….clever lady x. Wonderful cards with tons of inspiration, thank you Anita x.
You are so talented at showing us that Twofer CAS designs can be distinctly different, Anita! I love your burst of citrus JOY with your citrusy colors on your first design and how you turned your citrus slices into Christmas baubles on your second design! Genius! Turning the evergreen into ever silver so your design is monoshiny was inspired!! Hugs, Darnell
What clever uses of that stamp! The citrus is perfect and the shimmering ornaments fantastic!
Two FABULOUS cards Anita! Love your colorful fruit slices (and the sentiment!!) and really LOVE your fruit slices turned into Christmas ornaments card…you were definitely thinking outside the box with that card my friend! :0)
Super twosome, love the bright citrusy colours on the first. Thanks for playing at AAA Cards, hope to see you join in with future challenges.
Just spotted one at Uniko too, thanks for playing along.
These citrus slices make not only a colorful “joy” card, but a beautiful Christmas card, as well. Clever you, Anita!
I like that image as ornaments even more than as fruits slices, Anita. How clever of you to see them that way.
What a fun way to get extra use from you fruit slices, Anita! Very clever and pretty! 🙂
These are fabulous, Anita! Love the bright colors on one and shimmer on the second — two great cards
your take on the challenge is so very clever and creative, anita! fabulous set of cards!
Anita, this is brilliant to use those as Christmas ornaments! I love the shine and idea. Your lovely colors on the “bursting” card makes me want a nice cool drink.
You clever girl! I love how you colored the fruit slices on the first card and how you created Christmas ornaments on the 2nd card! Both cards are so pretty, too! Thanks so much for inspiring me to play along!!!
Anita what a creative way to demonstrate fruit! As citrus they are fabulous but as Silver ornaments. Amazing!
Two wonderful citrus cards, Anita! Especially love the silver citrus slices as ornaments!!
Wow that is an tranformation/using the stamp so different! Both cards look super! Hugs, Gerrina
A wonderful twofer, Anita! I love how you saw ornaments in your fruit slices! They look beautiful on the tree with their bows and string! I love the sentiment with your fruit, it really is mouth watering!
Wow, these are wonderful cards and so clever.
Two fantastic cards using your citrus fruit slices, Anita! Love the bright and sunny colours of your first card. The slices look so yummy!! How clever to turn them into Christmas ornaments. They look fantastic in silver, hanging from the tree branch. Great work Anita! xx
Darnell’s twofer challenge was begun with you in mind — always unique, clever and gorgeous.
You definitely thought out of the box Anita! I am loving both of your twofer’s! On the first card, I can definitely see those slices ready for a tall, cool drink but it is your second card that blew my mind. How fun to turn these slices into baubles! They look great hanging from the silver branches and I love the soft colors of them. Well done you clever girl! Hugs, Brenda
Your citrus card has me dreaming of lemonade!Thanks for playing along with us at AAACards!
Lovely cards and so positive for the challenge! Thanks for sharing at HLS CAS!
Wow, what a fantastic idea to turn the citrus slices into Christmas baubles!! Fabulous Twofer, Anita!! Rosi x
What a great twofer, love how you’ve turned the fruit into baubles.
Thanks for sharing the latter with us at Uniko. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this fun card with us, at HLS Anything Goes with Dies Challenge this month, Anita!
Fabulous twofer …… so creative. Thank you for playing along with the Uniko challenge xx
Aren’t you clever, Anita! Never would have thought of using an orange slice as an ornament! Nice CAS cards, XOX
creative use of your fruit stamps, great cards
thanks for joining us at Happy Little Stampers