Rainbow Cupcake Kisses

My third card with the December Betterpress Society press plate, 'Cupcake Kisses', is a rainbow one!

I chose four colours of Distress Oxide inks, and blended them right on the plates, then pressed onto a Bisque Cotton Card panel.

I cropped my background to be 4 3/8" square, stitched it down to a black mat, and adhered the cupcake and sentiment with 3D foam adhesive.  The finished card is 5" square.

I also took some photos with it on a plain teal base before I assembled it, but I'm going with the busier rainbow striped background.

You can get a Betterpress Society subscription through the Papercrafter's Workshop!

Easter Bunny Puppets

This is the cutest little puppet set from Art Impressions.  I wanted to make something for our neighbours, who have two little girls... and I thought of the 5869 - Easter Bunny Puppet Set, used as paper dolls.  I went to town, stamping and cutting out (with the matching dies), four bunnies, and enough bits and pieces to create about 8 or 10 different outfits.

I used the four new Basic paper packs from Ai - 6009 - Basic Green PP, 6010 - Basic Pink PP, 6011 - Basic Teal PP and 6012 - Basic Yellow PP, which are the perfect scale for tiny outfits.  I stamped everything in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and ran them all through my die cutting machine.  

Here's a sample of what they could look like assembled.  I left the bunnies and two baskets fairly plain, incase they want to colour them up.

Love You

A fairly quick valentine for my husband... I used the Block Letter Alphabet dies from Art Impressions, cut from some old Basic Grey papers that are favourites of mine!  Then added a Photoplay Say it With Stamps die, triple stacked with black cardstock for a little dimension, and added a few heart.  Happy Valentine's Day!

Shimmery Cupcakes

My Second card using the December Betterpress Society set, Cupcake Kisses is featuring a few new things.

I pressed the two plates onto Craft Perfect's Pearlescent Card in Blushing Pink without ink.  I was keen to try this out, and it worked beautifully on this cardstock!  I pressed the larger cupcake a second time, then fussy cut it, and adhered it over the double image with 3D foam adhesive.  The sentiment is one of four that come in the set, and was pressed onto a Bisque Cotton Card panel using Betterpress Black ink, and cut with the matching die - then adhered with foam dots.

The background swoosh was pressed onto a Bisque Cotton Card panel using Lisa Horton Crafts Cloud 9 metallic ink in Copper Pot.  This was my other new thing... I've been wanting some metallic inks for a long time, and this pressed beautifully!  This was a single pass through the machine, and it gave such a gorgeous result.

I stitched my panel onto a large rectangle of the Pearlescent Card with my sewing machine, and added a few irridescent Ballet Slipper jewels from Pinkfresh Studio.  You can get a subscription to the Spellbinders Betterpress Society by contacting the Papercrafter's Workshop. 

Sending Love

Pigment Craft Co. is no longer putting out new product, but I was able to purchase a number of their sets last summer, and am slowly working my way through them.  They have such a great vibe!  Today I pulled out the Sending Love stamps and dies, along with the Latte Hearts stencils.

Pigment came out with their own ink line which I've used today as well.

Waffle Valentines

I still love making valentines for my kids, even though they're grown... so I pulled out the Let's Toast and Waffle Lot stamp and die sets by Lawn Fawn for this year's versions.

Let's Toast comes with an add-on set that allows it to be interactive.  There's a little slot in the toaster, and a simple mechanism behind it that creates the pull tab.  I don't own the dies for the waffle set... so I stamped, coloured (with Copics) and fussy cut a whole bunch of the waffles and tiny berries.

The papers are all older Lawn Fawn, and I mounted everything on some kraft paper.  The inside says "You are waffly cute!"

Crazy Birds!

I haven't pulled out my Tim Holtz Crazy Birds set in years... but The Papercrafter's Workshop is giving us prompts to use our supplies that we have, and when I pulled out this stamp set, I found 3 of the birds and a bunch of accessories coloured and fussy cut - ready to go.  One of the prompts was to use 5 different pieces of paper, so I pulled out my Lawn Fawn Really Plaid Rainbow papers (also many years old!) and got to work.

Another new thing is a sketch challenge on the Papercrafter's Inner Circle Facebook group page, so if you'll scroll down, you'll see the sketch that got everything rolling this week.  I used to do sketch challenges quite often, so it was fun to get back to doing something I enjoy, and I've ended up with a couple of cards for my efforts.

You'll find links to the groups on the Papercrafter's Workshop website.