Birthday Best

Inspired by this bedding for today's inspiration challenge:
Spunky Sprout
I used the new Artful INKables set Birthday Best for the cupcake and sentiment. I applied Liquid Applique and real cupcake sprinkles and heated to make puffy. Background is SU's cupcakes wheel colored in with Copic markers.
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This fabulous cake image is from the new Artful INKables set Birthday Best. I colored it with Copic markers, added some pearls and striped ribbon. Sentiment is also from set.

Friends 24-7

This is my favorite SU paper ever, it is so easy to coordinate and the card came together really fast for the 30 minute or less challenge over on SCS. No coloring, which saved time also. The paper is Parisian Breeze from SU, stamped bird in chocolate and background in Sahara Sand, stamped off once. Layout is from Mojo Monday 76 sketch.

Sweet Stems ATC's

I made these ATC's (artist trading cards) with the Sweet Stems set and Tea Party paper. Very springy!



















This is Artful INKables new set called Think Big. The second pic is the ATC upgraded to a card.

CBC#57 Chrissy and Courtney's New Stamps

These images were so pretty and fun to work with. This first image is from Chris Dickinson for this week's Belli Challenge and new stamp release. I love the graceful elegance of this stamp and I loved coloring it. I used Copic markers with SU's Bella Birds paper, white organdy ribbon, and half pearls. This new set is called His Eye Is On The Sparrow and can be found at Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps.


This beautiful image is designed by Courtney Fowler also for Sweet 'N Sassy and is awesome if you love coloring like I do. I love the yellows, oranges, and pinks that I see these lovely flowers in and will definitely be experimenting with more color blends for this image. I used my Copic markers for this also along with SU's Delicate Dots paper and Old Olive cardbase.







Please check out the cards made by the Belli team:
Anne Harada, Shelly Koskinen, Courtney Fowler, Chris Dickinson, Christi Thorsen, Jennifer Greco, Holly Brown, Karen Gibson, Ceal Pritchett, Danita Hollander, Lee Murphy, Debby McGivillary, Joan Ervin

Doubledog Dare Challenge- Come and Play!!

This week it was my turn to host the Doubledog Dare Challenge and I thought it would be nice to see a card that was about spring and the Doubledog Dare part was to add seeds somewhere on the card. I used poppy seeds in the flower.
Please come and join us for the challenge, don't forget to add DDC in the keywords so we can find you.
Raspberry Tart and Parisian Summer designer papers, new flower brads and olive polytwill ribbon.
The sun was actually shining here today so maybe spring really is just around the corner!

Crimped Envelope Pocket Card

This is so easy! Seal envelope. I stamped mine with Bella Toile in black on a Kraft envelope. Colored in certain areas. Cut about 1 1/4" from the top and used eyelet border punch on this small strip. Run the bottom half of the envelope through the crimper. The top strip piece will fit nicely back over the envelope now.
Also used the 5 petal and Three Flower punches along with the Pretties Kit pearls, Cute and Curly set and matching punch for the sentiment, and black grosgrain ribbon. You can slide a card inside the envelope, I don't have a pic of one quite yet.

This Week's Challenge

Our Three Amigas Weekly Challenge is to make a card for a boy or man with any shades of the colors brown and blue. It can be for any occasion you choose.
I used the Parisian Breeze designer paper which is a very nice cardstock weight, textured paper, double sided. The Naturals White panel was embossed with one of the new Stampin' Up textured plates which are very cool! I stamped a sentiment right on the embossing in Chocolate Chip. Embellishments were the neutrals brads in Chocolate and linen thread. Cute and Curly stamp set along with matching punch for sentiment.
This challenge was combined with today's Featured Stamper, Kelly H, where I cased her pocket card layout, making changes to the paper, stamps, and embellishments used.




For this second card I used some of the large Pretties Kit white flowers, my new Prints Pack designer paper (Level 1 hostess choice), the Top Note die that was run through the Big Shot with the new texturz plate. I cut the flowers from Simple Friendship out of the same dp, added some Crystal Effects and some of the tiny silver beads from the Pretties Kit. Sentiment/flourish is from Yummy which is a Sale-a-bration choice, stamped in Pacific Point.