Cupcake

Good afternoon I'm staying with the sweet treats today!

I've got the cutest cupcake from Prickley Pear to show you

Doesn't that look yummy!

I used the Valentine Cupcake stamp set, stamped colored and fussy cut each piece. I then layered the hearts on the frosting to give more dimension. These were they coated in glossy accents. I shaped the base and the frosting and used glue gel to adhere to my gingham card so that the image maintained its rounded shape.

I matted my card base in bright pink card and added my topper. I then stamped Valentine and the little birds with hearts from the Love Banner Set to balance the image out 

Thank you for stopping by, to see all the new release stamps head on over to the new release section of the Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps website - don't forget the offers:

You can find more inspiration from me and my teamies on the Prickley Pear blog and their Facebook page.

Time is flying - It's Scrapper's Delights mid-month reminder

It's the middle of January already??? Wow where is time going? 

This means it's the mid month reminder about the Scrapper's Delights challenge it's also the 3,000 members celebration over on the Facebook page and super heroes are abundant there so call and by and see what excitement is happening .

So today I'm showcasing one of Scrapper's delights Fairies - It only being a month away from Valentine's Day I thought I'd color up the Love Fairy 3:

Isn't she the sweetest!!

I have colored the image with Copic markers and enhanced the shading with Polychromo pencils, to make the hearts pop I added glossy accents.I then matted both the image and some coordinating design papers with red card. I used white card to make my 5x7 inch base and layered mt mats onto this - adding pink ribbon to the side. I then die cut the word love and placed this across the corner of my image. A pink bow on the ribbon just balanced the card. 

Ingredients:

Scrapper's delights digital stamp - Love Fairy 3

Spectrum Noir Ultra smooth card stock

Copic Markers

Polychromo pencils

Red Card

White card for base

Head on over to the Scrapper's Delights Store to see all of their images.

Don't forget to enter the monthly challenge you may win!

Why not stop by the Scrapper's Delight Facebook page for regular news on and inspiration from my Teamies and keep your eyes peeled on my blog for new releases from them!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - #398 Wings on Things
Brown Sugar Challenges -#233 Anything Goes
Crafting with Friends - #34 Anything Goes
Morgan's Art World -#1 Anything Goes

Who needs salad!!!!

Good afternoon, I'm back with my second card from the Card Bonanza over at Riley and Co.

Today's make is for all you beer drinkers:

Yes who recalls telling a great story over a salad??? No? Me neither, although I'm not a beer drinker give me a glass of wine instead!

I started this card by stamping Riley and Company's small beer mug multiple times, randomly on a piece of white card. I then colored them with Copic makers and added Glossy Accents to the condensation drips on the glasses and put this to one side to dry.

I chose a pre-made scalloped card base and matted it with a mustard colored card. I stamped the Riley and Company Funny Bones sentiment - No Great Story onto the same white card as the beer glasses and matted this with the mustard colored card.

Once dry I started to assemble the card, The white background that was originally on the beer glass design looked too stark against the white on the sentiment so I used a Copic marker and colored around the beer glasses and hey presto! It looked 100% better!

Thank you for stopping by, for more inspiration check out the Riley and Company Blog. Or for more news about what the Moose and his pals are up to head on over to the company Facebook page 

Sparkle Sparkle Everywhere

Good evening, 2nd post from me today and after spreading glitter everywhere - I think even Gizzie got some I can share the sparkly card I have made for the 12 month's of Christmas Design Team showcase.

 

Twinkling lights, garland, and tinsel oh my!  Christmas is quickly approaching and as we start to get ready for the festivities we'll be noticing that our surroundings will soon be rather bright and sparkly.  Whether it is part of the decorations that we put up or the special sparkle in the eyes of the people around us, there is a certain glimmer about.   Just like our surroundings, it is time to give our cards that same kind of glitzy look. 

 

The sponsor this month is

 

 Sparkle and Sprinkle

In order to have a chance to win the prize from them, we want to see a Christmas or other holiday card that has lots of sparkle and shine on it.   Here is your chance to grab your glitter, sparkles and other forms of bling and get to it!   If you do follow the optional theme, be sure to add FT after your name so that we include you in the draw for the prize.
 

Remember, you don't need to follow the theme to link up your cards and earn a free paper each month, and have your name thrown into the year end draw for some extra digital goodies.  You only need to follow the theme if you want a chance to win this month's sponsored prize of a $15 gift certificate to the Sparkle N Sprinkle store

 

The additional prize as always is a mini set of digital papers called the Glitteratti set from

 

 

 

Decosse's Dynamite Doodles

 

On to my card

 

 

I have used Winter Stream from the Sparkle and Sprinkle store I have colored the image using Polycromo pencils and the added an abundance of crystal glitter to all the snow! there are sparkles on top of sparkles! I then added Glossy Accents to the icicles and parts of the stream to give even more shine. I embossed some shiny pearl card with a holiday sentiment folder. I matted this onto aqua card along with my image. To finish I added yet more sparkle with 3 crystal gems to the bottom left corner.

 

Now come over to the 12 Month's of Christmas Link up and enter your Christmas makes!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forest Friends

Good afternoon and Happy Halloween hope the weather is treating you better than us! It's cold and rainy here so not sure of the kids will be going trick or treating. Mollie and I have had a crafty afternoon to make up for it!

 

She was sent some gorgeous craft sets by my BFF and she's had great fun getting messy with them

 

 

She started with painting sun catchers and is now doing some glitter art!

 

Whilst she was busy with that I have been adding to my Christmas cards with a stamp I've had for a while and never used!

It is perfect for a design Team Call I'm applying for over at Stamping Smiles Design Team Challenges

 

In order to apply I have used their Tic-Tac-Toe

 

 

Using Forest friends, Leaves and Twine

 

 

These little pals are from Crafter's Companion Mulberry Wood stamp collection. This set is called Giving. I have colored them with my Spectrum Noir makers and added glossy accents to the fairy lights in the bigger moose's antlers.

 

I then matted a white card blank with green card. The design paper is from Lili of the Valley's Krafty Christmas 8x8 paper pad, I wound twine around the right hand side of this before placing fixing this in place on my card.

 

I matted the image with the same green card and affixed this in place. The holly and berries were die cuts and I glued these and the Lili of the Valley tag over the cross of the twine.

As well as apply to Stamping Smiles Designs I am entering this card in the following challenges
 

 52 Christmas card Throwdown - Pick a previous Theme - Fairy Lights
Allsorts Challenge - Christmas