Hi there! It’s been a while, in fact I had this project sitting on my desk for over a week, all I needed was a moment to photograph and blog the poor things… not always an easy task these days 🙂
The new Design Infused revolves around the photo that my friend and blogger Lisa Spangler from Sideoats & Scribbles shared on Facebook a few months back, and which I fell in love with. Full credit goes to you, sistah!

What is Design Infused series about?
I take a design piece that inspires me (be it stationery, clothing, packaging, etc.), and translate it into a custom paper-craft design, using predominantly stamps and ink. I take great joy in letting what I see around, influence my designs, and I want to show you how easy it is. I collect the inspiration in my Pinterest board especially created for this purpose, and pick a piece from the lot for each installment of this feature.

The inspiration photo is courtesy of Lisa and since she shared it on her personal FB page, I won’t link to it directly. I believe it’s a sign of a local eatery that she visited, I think it’s so cute with its simple cottage charm. I especially like the checked strip at the top, and the banner.

I immediately had in mind, a set of tags which I can attach to the baked treats, that I like to give to people as thank-you gifts. Sometimes I whip up something yummy last-minute (ok, more often than that…) and I need a handy-dandy tag which I can quickly sign at the back and carry to the recipient. It’s good to stock up on these things!

I changed the carrots for the big strawberry from the Waltzingmouse Big Berries - Strawberry stamp set, and the checked background happened with the help of Off Beat Backgrounds, also Waltzingmouse. I added a length of subtle lace trim, to where the pattern ends, shame I couldn’t capture it well enough on the photo - it looks really lovely and adds to the cottage charm. I cut the banners from navy cardstock, with Simon Says Tilted Banners die, I’m madly in love with them! (I’m sure you noticed too, lol).
The sentiment comes from the WPlus9 set called Fresh Baked. It’s delightful and perfect for all those home-made goodie gifts, I honestly have to start whipping up all sorts of goodness with it soon! It comes with custom dies too, of course! We wouldn’t have it any different from WPlus9 🙂

Hope you enjoyed, see you again soon 🙂