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.

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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. 

Cupcake Kisses

Cupcake Kisses was the December Betterpress Society plate set.  I started off in a whole other colour direction, but settled on this pink combo after trial and error.

I pressed two different colours of pink ink on two different shades of pink cardstock, then cut them in half and switched them - to create two different cards, then did the same with the swoosh image on the backgrounds.  The set includes a die to easily cut out the cupcake, and comes with three different sentiments.  I also cut the cupcake and the sentiment out in brushed silver Treasured cardstock from Spellbinders for a little shimmer.  I used a decorative rectangle die from The Greetery to create the pretty border, then adhered it to my black card base.

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