Basic Grey Cupcake

Hi there, hope you are having a nice weekend. It has been kinda busy here. Yesterday our exchange student graduated from high school and we had a party for her afterwards. She will be leaving one week from today. I am so excited that tomorrow starts sneak peek week in the hanna stamps forum on SCS. So stay tuned there and on my blog where I will be posting my first sneak peeks. Anyway, on with today's project. I used the sketch from Taylored Expressions as my layout and chose my dp based on the Our Creative Corner challenge for this week which was to use Basic Grey paper.

I started with my choc chip CS and cut it vertically so I would have a top fold. I then layered on my pink basic grey paper and cut out two strips of my coordinating dp to layer at the top. I cut along the scallops in the dp and then adhered them and curled upsome of the scallops for dimension. I stamped my cupcake in choc chip on cryogen white shimmery paper and colored with my copics. I stamped the image a second time and colored only the top of the cupcake and cut it out. I stamped, colored and cut out my cherry and glued it onto the cupcake. I attached the top of the cupcake with pop dots and added stickles of course. I used my ticket corner punch on the corners, sponged with pink ink and double matted my image. I attached both chocolate and pick satin ribbon to the top strip one ontop of the other. I tied my twill into a bow beneath my image according the sketch and added my circle sentiment. The card was finished by added 3 dew drops to the corners of the cupcake image. Here are some closeups for you...




Supplies:
stamps- hero arts cupcakes
ink- chocolate chip, pretty in pink
CS/paper- Basic Grey dp, choc chip, close to cocoa, cryogen white
accessories/tools- ticket corner punch, dew drops, PTI sweet blush satin ribbon, choc chip satin ribbon, choc twill from joanns, stardust stickles, fruit punch stickles, sponge, CM circle punch, pop dots

Have a great night and hope to see you tomorrow for hanna sneak peeks.

Challenge Day

The cards I have to share today are both challenge cards.

This first card is for the featured stamped challenge which also uses the color challenge of the week which I love. Here is the card of Diane's that I chose to CASE. I changed the stamp set, sentiment, ribbon. I also added brads, piercing ticket corner, extra layers and bg stamp. I stamped my image on the kraft with pallette noir- I never stamped on kraft but wanted to try it. I stamped my flower in versamark on sky and embossed it with black ep. I cut it out, punched the small circle and attached it with a pop dot for dimension. I stamped my sky layer with the sanded bg and sponged the edges and double matted. I added my strip layer which I pierced and tied the ribbon around. I used the ticket corner punch and brads on my main image and double matted and attached to the card. I finished off by stamping my sentiment in black.

Recipe:
stamps- sanded bg, PT garden of life
ink- pallette noir, versamark, soft sky
CS- kraft, soft sky, black
accessories/tools- ticket corner punch, brads, black ep, stitched ribbon, slot punch, sponge

The second card is a triple challenge card- woohoo!



The sketch I used is Taylor's cupcake challenge and that is also why I chose this Riley- because he is holding a cupcake. I did the hanna stamps PJ challenge 4 which required you to use more than one punch. You will definitely want to run not walk over to the hanna forum and participate in the challenges because you can win some awesome stamps! There are 4 different challenges you can enter for. The last challenge is from the Our Creative Corner which required the use of both buttons and brads on your card. You can check out the deets on my fellow hanna DT member Cindy's blog. I started with my white base and added the red layer which I added white get dots on and my dp layer which I sponged. My half circle was run through my cb. I colored my Riley using my copics and prismamarkers. The cherry on top of the cupcake is a red brad covered with stickles. This was double matted and added to the card after the ribbon was tied. I used my brand new riley sentiments available at hanna stamps which was just released and punched with my CM circle punch. I finished my card with my buttons which were tied with red cord.

Recipe:
stamps- coffee Riley, things Riley would say
ink- pallette noir, pretty in pink
CS- white, real red, pretty in pink, SU berry bliss dp
accessories- pink buttons, red cord, red grosgrain ribbon, red brad, candy cane stickles, cb swiss dots, slot punch, CM circle punch

Have a great weekend!!

Occasion cards

Today I have a couple cards to share. I really like to do challenges so I was able to do the hanna sketch challenge and Taylor's cupcake challenge with these. The first card is a father's day for my dad fitting as this is Father's day.

This cards uses a sketch that was posted by Niki in the Hanna stamps forum. I started with a base of garden green and layered on my sky layer which I pierced in rows at the top and bottom. I colored my Riley using my prismamarkers and copics. I punched it with my Marvy mega punch which is where I went wrong. I did not want to matte it on a scalloped circle and the next size circle I had was too big. So, I punched another circle out that was the same size and cut it in half and matted it that way. I punched my white circle and stamped "dad" on it. I then ran it through my cb upside down to make it look a golf ball with the dimples which is hard to see in the picture. The pics are not the best this time as I was low on time but still wanted to share them.

Supplies:
stamps- golfer riley from hanna stamps, studio G letters
ink- pallette noir, choc chip
CS/paper- garden green, soft sky, Crate dp
accessories- copics (G21, E33, E37, E27, B00), twill, SU pewter hodgepodge, paper piercer, swiss dots cb folder

This next card is a last minute graduation card. I did not know that the graduation we were going to was a double graduate and so I needed one in a hurry. I wanted to do Taylor's sketch but knew I was low on time so I did the grad rather than the traditional cupcake. This picture really is bad as the colors are not coming out well even after editing and I am sorry for that but you will get the general idea.

I used Taylor's sketch which was tough for me since you had so many panels. It could also be that I was in a bit of a rush and could not think about it as much either. Anyway, here is the sketch. The school colors are blue and white so that is where I got my colors from. I used my prints pack for the paper and matted it on navy and attached it to my white base. I colored with my prismamarkers and copics and double matted it and attached my silver brads. I tied navy grosgrain underneath. Stickles were added to the tassel and flowers.

Supplies:
stamps- diplomabella
CS/paper- white PT, SU night of navy and bashful blue, bashful blue dp from the prints pack.
accessories- SU navy grosgrain ribbon, silver mini brads, prismamarkers (light cerulean blue, blue slate, deco yellow), copics ( E00, RV11, RV13, G21, not sure which navy)

Enjoy what is left of the weekend and see ya when I see ya...

Taylored Expressions cupcake challenge 19

Good Monday morning to you all! It is a beautiful sunny HOT day here today. Already at 85 before 10AM this morning. I was finally able to take a picture of the card I made for Taylor's cupcake challenge this morning because by the time I was able to do it yesterday it was too dark. You can find the sketch for this card HERE.



What I really liked about this sketch is that the back giga circle is covered over so you only see part of it. The cupcake is up on pop dots and has stickles for the sprinkles and a rhinestone at the top. The white strip is accented with score lines around the polka dot ribbon. I used a white gel pen for the dots on the black CS and a micron black pen for the dots on the pink circle.

Supplies:
stamps- Inkadinkado cupcakes
ink- pallette noir
CS/paper- pretty in pink, white, black, SU prints pack
accessories/tools- stardust stickles, giga scallop circle, CM circle cutter, signo white gel pen, polka dot grosgrain, rhinestone, black micron pen, prismacolor pencils and gamsol

Thanks for stopping by today

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge

Every Friday Taylor VanBruggen posts her cupcake challenge sketch. It is not "mandatory" that you use cupcakes but as Taylor says if you got em why not use em. You can see her sketch here. This is the first time I have played along but won't be the last LOL. Truthfully, I am not sure if I am totally happy with how this card came out. It is not bad but not quite how I envisioned it in my head. I think that the combo of the 2 coordinating dps might be too much. Take a peek and see what ya think.



Supplies:
stamps- Inkadinkado cupcakes
CS- doodlebug dp, SU pink passion, green galore, only orange
ink- pink passion
accessories- stardust stickles, Spare Parts shimmer brads, SU brads, double sided ribbon from Michaels
tools- prismacolor pencils, gamsol, cuttlebug bday folder, SU oval punches, perfect layers tool

I double matted my first dp and then adhered my middle strip which I ran through my cuttlebug and matted. I took my second dp and double matted that also and attached to the card. I stamped my cupcakes, colored them with prismacolors pencils and gamsol and added some stickles of course. The image was matted and brads were added to the 4 corners. The sentiment was stamped using my tape masking technique because the whole stamp reads "Sweet Birthday Wishes" and that would obviously not fit in the oval. I attached my double sided ribbon which I LOVE with shimmer brads. TFL.

Today is mojo Monday and Julee has the sketch posted on her blog. I will be doing that one later in the week. I really need some Verve stamps as I don't own any yet and I have to fix that LOL!

I will leave you with this song that is in my head now. "Just another Manic Monday...wish it was Sunday...cause that's my fun day". Now for all you youngins out there that song was sung by the Bangles and released in 1986. I am forever an
80s girl. As a matter of fact, my 20 year high school reunion is this month (now you know my age LOL) and the questionnaire they sent us had a question asking who your favorite "hair" band was- hee hee.

Have a terrific day and don't forget to enter for the blog candy today!