A little birthday card.

Oh, it's so nice to be creating again!  I've been working on projects that will be posted in a few days... finally had a chance to do something just for fun, so I pulled out this week's Freshly Made Sketches sketch, and my Key Ingredients kit (I think July's?) and made this cheery little birthday card:

Patterned papers are Hello Summer, Echo Park; Cardstock is White Daisy, CTMH and Key Ingredients; Stamp sets are Love Birds & Card Word Puzzle, CTMH; Ink is Rich Cocoa, Memento and Creme Brulee, CTMH; Copic markers; Prima flower; Spellbinder's dies & My Favorite Things border die. 

 

Twenty Dozen Cupcakes

Luckily they were mini ones!  Knowing that my daughter has a little cupcake business, when my niece got engaged, she asked if she would make the cupcakes for her wedding!  So when we flew out to BC this past July, Paige packed all her icing bags & tips and a few random ingredients like meringue powder & clear vanilla.  She'd been researching recipes and making test batches for weeks in advance, and with a few days to go, and in an unfamiliar kitchen, she set out to make 240 chocolate and vanilla cupcakes.

The first day was making 250+ royal icing drop flowers... the second day was baking day...



And finally, icing them all with a swirl, and adding the drop flower to the top. Here's a picture of the tower at the wedding (this is only about 1/2 of what she baked), along with the proud baker. If she can do this at 14, just wait and see what she'll do a few years from now! (very proud Mom speaking!)

 

A CAS card for Heart2Heart

This week's Heart2Heart Challenge is to use Sunset, Pear & Lagoon on a card, so I pulled out our August/September promotional stamp set - It's Your Day to make a couple of CAS style cards.  I used the solid butterfly image to stamp each colour on the base, then stamped and cut out the matching chevron image.  I glued down just the body of the butterflies to give the wings a little dimension.

Cardstock is Black & White Daisy; Stamp sets are It's Your Day, Say it in Style & Stitches; Inks are Black, Sunset, Lagoon & Pear; Black Opaque pearls.

Verve's Card Carnival

I made another card last night to enter in Verve's Card Carnival to celebrate their 5th Anniversary.  I really LOVE coffee themed cards (??) - they just make me smile... so I thought I'd use Verve's Better With You stamp set to make a little coffee card using this week's Deconstructed Sketch:

Patterned papers are Times & Seasons, Echo Park; Cardstock is Black and Colonial White, CTMH; Stamp set is Better With You, Verve; Inks are Tuxedo Black, Memento and Brown Bag, CTMH;

 

Sketchbook Saturday Challenge #73

At long last, I've finally broken into my Avonlea papers (new in the Fall/Winter CTMH catalogue) as well as my first project using my new Cricut and the Artiste cartridge.  (I've been working on some other projects already, but can't post them till September!).  So here is a little encouragement card using the Kudos stamp set that comes with the cartridge, based on this week's Sketchbook Saturday sketch:

Patterned papers are Avonlea; Cardstock is Slate, Colonial White & Avonlea Teal; Stamp set is Kudos; Inks are Slate & Twilight; - all CTMH; Baker's Twine, The Twinery.

 

Happy Anni-Verve-sary!

One of my favourite stamp companies - Verve - is celebrating their 5th Anniversary this month, and as part of their celebrations, they are having a Card Carnival for fans (like me!) to link up a card using some of their fabulous Verve products.  I decided to do a celebratory type of card using the sweet "Carpe Cupcake" stamp set - the sentiment on the inside of the card cracks me up!  This also works for this week's Paper Player's challenge to do paper piecing on a CAS style card:

Patterned papers are Baby Jane Mini-Deck by Cosmo Cricket; Stamp set is Carpe Cupcake, Verve; Ink is Rich Cocoa, Memento; Baker's Twine, The Twinery; Button, CTMH; Copic Markers; Cardstock is Kraft & Colonial White, CTMH.

A Couple of Challenges

I haven't had my Copics out for a while, so I combined this week's colour challenge at The Paper Players with the current Sweet Sunday Sketch - and used a cute little image that I got in a stamp swap.  I tweaked the sketch a little, but hopefully you can still see it in there somewhere:

Patterned papers are Tea for Two, Cosmo Cricket; Stamp sets are (boy-unknown), and Plain Jane, Verve; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Dies are Verve & Taylored Expressions; All papers Key Ingredients July Kit.  Copic Markers.