Well I am back again this week, much later in posting than I had anticipated.  I got back home late last night and have been trying to get my house in order, unpack, take care of kids, do groceries, cook the meals and still find time to do the photo’s and post for this week’s punch tutorial.  Thankfully though I have managed to get it out, and I hope you like it as much as I do.  For those of you who don’t know, I have a thing for food images.  It may have something to do with the colors or textures, or just plain that I love good food.  So I am tickled pink to come up with some fruity images.  You may have to suffer along with me as I do a few different fruits in the coming weeks.  What brought this on?  Maybe its that we have finally been getting some proper summer weather, the type that brings to mind lazy days and ripe juicy fruits hanging in the trees.  Now I don’t have any oranges growing anywhere remotely close to here, but since I love to eat them, and I love to look at the meat of the fruit in the sunlight I decided to do this as my project for this week.  The outside says “You“, and the inside says “are my main squeeze“.  Other orangy sentiments might be:  ” you are the orange of my eye“, “If this was the last orange, I would share a slice with you“, “Orange you Sweet“, “Orange you Cute“.  If you can think of any more then please share them with me, I am always looking for new sentiments.

Tutorial:

To start off, you will need 2 circles punched out with your 1 3/4″ punch from Pumpkin Pie textured CS (cut one of the Pumkin Pie circles in half)  Next you will punch out 1 circle from your 1 3/8″ circle punch from Apricot Appeal CS (cut this in half).  Lastly you will punch out 2 Kiwi Kiss (or Old Olive) circles with your 1 1/4″ punch.  Sponge the 2 Pumkin Pie circles with :  Dusty Durango (leaving a small amount of one side bare), Ruby Red (putting it over the Durango but not as far out), Bravo Burgundy (just the edge to add the darkest shadow area) and then a touch of Apricot Appeal Craft ink to the lightest side to create the highlight). 

Take your two green 1 1/4″ circles and create leaves by placing them back in the circle punch and cutting them as shown above.  When your two leaves are created, you can sponge with Garden Green.

Place a dot in the center of your half of Apricot Appeal using a regular graphite pencil.

Cut the half circle into three triangles making sure that each point meets at the dot that you created in the center.  This will help prevent any wonkiness in the triangles.

Glue the triangles to the half circle of Pumpkin Pie.  You could also do a whole slice of orange by following the above mentioned steps for a whole circle.  You are now ready to assemble the image.  You can use a white gel pen to add highlights and also to add that white center area which oranges have when you slice them.  The branch if you want to add it was made with Chocolate Chip CS and the Birds and Branches Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die.  The orange wedge in the card was popped up on a Stampin’ Dimensional.  You could add orange glitter to each of the segments.  I would probably use Dazzling Diamonds colored with Pumkin Pie or Apricot Appeal so that it has a more transparent look.

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Ink: Dusty Durango Classic ink (115654), Ruby Red Classic ink (102259), Garden Green Classic ink (102272), Bravo Burgundy Classic ink (105214), Appricot Appeal Craft ink (105242)
Paper: Whisper White CS (100730), Pumkin Pie Textured CS (108697), Kiwi Kiss CS (retired), Chocolate Chip CS (102128), Apricot Appeal CS (105124), Pink Flamingo DP (113976)
Accessories: Bone Folder (102300), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Big Shot (113439), 1 3/4″ circle punch (112004), 1 3/8″ circle punch (104401), 1 1/4″ circle punch (104403), Birds and Branches Die (114529), Stamping Sponges (101610), Signo White gel pen (105021), Bigz Scallop Square die (115950), Circle Fire Rhinestone brads (109110)