Birthday Flowers

 Hello. I created this card for the 500th challenge at Cupcake Inspiration Challenge. I can hardly believe there have been 500 Cupcake Challenges. That's pretty amazing. Just think of all those wonderful cupcakes! I always get hungry for delicious cupcakes when I do one of these challenges. :-)

I wanted to use these flower dies from the small die of the month set in July. With mail service rather sketchy right now, I didn't get these till the end of July and am just now using them. I decided to go with a rainbow of flowers. I really like the way this turned out. It's such a cheerful and fun card. I die cut the Happy Birthday out of white CS 3 times and glued them together to give the greeting some dimension.

Here's the cupcake for this week's inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by today.

blessings,

shelia

Happy Autumn

Hi Everyone. I have a fun fall card to share with you today. I used the challenge at Cupcake Inspirations for my card today.  Here's their yummy cupcake for inspiration.




The challenge is to have something inside your card. I found myself staring at the cupcake wondering how they got that pumpkin shape perfectly inside the cupcake. Is that one of those candied pumpkins that they just put into the cake batter whole? I'd really like to know how this was done. I think it'd be fun to create some of these for my grandkids for Thanksgiving since most of them are young and not into pie. I guess I'll have to google this or check Pinterest!!

Anyway for my card, I cut off a panel in the front, added some transparency between the two pieces and added the die cut leaves behind so they show through the clear transparency.  The greeting is from DRS Designs and was stamped with Hero Arts Orange Ombre ink. I smooched some TH Orange Distress Oxide ink onto my mat, added some water and then made some splashes on the front of the card for some added interest. I really like how this turned out. Plus it was pretty quick and easy to create.

Thanks for stopping by today. I'm off to check out how to make these cupcakes. :-)

blessings,
shelia

the Beauty of Autumn

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. I did!! Saturday was my birthday and the weather turned cool. It was a beautiful day filled with birthday wishes, yummy cupcakes and dinner at my favorite restaurant where we got to sit outside and enjoy the gorgeous weather even more. I loved it.  So in honor of both the cooler weather and beautiful cupcakes, my card features fall leaves and is based on this week's challenge at Cupcake Inspirations. DRS Designs is the proud sponsor for this challenge. If you play along, you could be the winner of a $20 coupon to DRS Designs on line store. Nice! Here's the yummy cupcake for inspiration.

The challenge this week at Cupcake Inspirations is to use glitter on your card. I don't know about you, but I am horrible with glitter. I get it everywhere - all over my craft table, the room, my clothes, in my coffee and on my poor pup who usually hangs out in the craft room with me while I'm creating. So in light of that, I decided to use glitter embossing powder instead of just straight up glitter. I still managed to get glitter all over the place, but not nearly as much as usual! Anyway, here's my card:

I started with some water color paper, added some TH DO inks, stamped the Open Leaf image with VersaMark ink, and then heat embossed them with the gold glitter EP. These were die cut with a SB circle die and added to the cream panel that was embossed with a SB leaf EF.  This cream panel was added to another cream panel that was embossed with the same gold glitter EP as the leaves. The greeting was stamped and embossed just like the leaves. Here's a close up of the greeting.

I hope you can find some time to join in the challenge this week. And I hope you have better luck with the glitter than I do! LOL!

Thanks for stopping by.

shelia

Howdy Pardner!

Hi Everyone. My card today features the cowboy cactus, Western Word Square and 4 in 1 cowboy gear images from DRS Designs.

The cowboy cactus was stamped onto white CS, colored with Copics and die cut with an oval die from ODBD. The hat and spurs from the 4 in 1 Cowboy gear was stamped with VersaMark ink onto the red panel and die cut with a MFT square die. The Western Word Square was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto the kraft CS. The white panel was embossed with a  Tim Holtz EF that reminds me of rope. I added a little sparkle on the spurs with a Sakura Gelly Roll pen and then added the baker's twine bow to finish it off.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #475 (a desert theme challenge)
Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #515 and here's the sketch:



Thanks for stopping by today!

shelia