Oh how I love tutorial challenges! I rarely actually get around to
entering them, but I thought that the Circle Step Card and/or
Circles/Hexagons challenge at Top Tip Tuesday was perfect for a birthday card for our niece.
The
"Cupcake Girl" clear stamp is from my stash; I know it was made by
someone in Arizona, but sadly it doesn't say on the package. I've ended
up loving this stamp more than I thought I would; it's so much fun to
paper-piece (you can see another version here),
and is easy to personalize. The dress, frosting, and wrapper are all
pieced on from different papers, and the body & hair is a 100%
Hammermill. I colored the image & dress with Copics, and added
detail with Sakura glaze pens.
I made the base with Echo Park's double-sided Teal Small Dot DP (the inside is striped). The cupcake paper is from Digi Doodle Doo's free . I cut out some more tiny cupcakes and glued them on top of the paper to add dimension. The Cupcake Girl's wrapper is stamped on a digi paper I made by enlarging the same cupcake paper.
The bottom, flower-patterned portion is made from a textured, white-frosted yellow Core'Dinations cardstock. I punched the pattern with the "Flower" Mini Lucky 8 Punch
from We R Memory Keepers, and backed it with the the yellow side. I
used both sides for the frosting & dress on the Cupcake Girl.
The patterned kraft medallions die cuts are from my stash; I splurged on $2 worth of them at Scraps of Love, and I've been hoarding them for over 6 months! The 3D "You're the Best" epoxy sticker on the small doily is also long-hoarded. I embellished the card with adhesive gems and a silver "Happy Birthday" sticker. I think our niece will like this card, as her family likes to bake!
As a crafter, there's no better feeling than having a friend ask you to make a card! My friend from college needs a card for his High School friend's eight-year-old daughter, so I pulled out some of my favorite stamps & papers and made this pop-up card:
And the inside:
The cupcake is slightly popped-out:
I was excited to have a chance to try this week's {PIN}spirational Challenge; see the purple cupcake inspiration photo below.
I got the "Cupcake Girl" clear stamp from my mom; she said it was designed by a local woman, but the company no longer exists and it doesn't say on the stamp pack. Too bad... it's too cute! I have a male version as well. The cupcake rubber stamp is from Stampendous. The cupcake ribbon on the inside is by The Paper Studio, and the patterned purple ribbons are from my stash; I stamped the sentiment onto the solid purple ribbon with black ink (Memento). The image & wrappers are stamped in the same black ink, but I heat-embossed the cupcake tops in Rubellite (PEARLustre/Stampendous). The little sentiments on the inside are from a Hampden Arts set, and were inked with Victorian Violet ink (Brilliance/Tsukineko) The polka-dot circle (cut with a Spellbinders die) and the paper for the cupcake wrapper are from the same 2-sided DP (Lily Bee Designs), and the butterfly paper on the inside is by Graphic 45. I inked the latter paper with Purple Hydrangea chalk ink (VersaMagic).The yellow backing paper is from my stash, and I embossed the polka dots with a Cuttlebug folder.The corners are decorated with my favorite punch (Marvy/Uchida).
Sorry the photos aren't great; I made this pretty quickly and popped it right in the mail!
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Inspiration/Challenges:
