A Card for the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #525

Hello everyone!! It is week two for the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge Blog #525 with a color challenge. Have you played yet? The colors that you need to use are aqua, red and brown.

This week I created a card with a little scene.

I stamped this mouse using Colorado Craft Company's *Spoonful of Sugar stamp using Copic friendly Memento *Tuxedo Black ink. I then colored my scene in with my Copic markers.

I masked off my mouse and sugar bowl using a post it note and shaded the background "sky" in using *Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. 

I die cut the panel with a Papertrey Ink border die and again, using a Lawn Fawn *Stitched Rectangle die. I also die cut a border from pattern paper and adhered it under the stitched curve.

I then adhered the scene to an A2, top folding, red card base and stamped the sentiment from *Spoonful of Sugar. My last step was to adhere some sugar cubes around the bowl and cover all of them with *Diamond Stickles. 

I absolutely ADORE how this came out!! I think I am going to be purchasing some more of these little mice in the near future.

Please hop on over to the Cupcake Challenge Inspiration Blog to see some other amazing cards by our design team. I hope you play along with us this week. I cannot wait to see what you make!!!

I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS day!!

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Happy Sunday with a Couple of Cards

 Hello everyone!! Just popping in with a couple of cards that I created this weekend. 

I had to get all my creative fun in as we are taking my daughter to DC this week to set up her new apartment. She will be a SENIOR!!! The time went by so fast!!!

Since our dogs are crazy, we are having a house sitter come for the week. Thank goodness for family!!

My first card I created with inspiration from some challenges.

I used some new Pinkfresh Studio products for this. I bought the Happy Blooms Stamps, Dies and matching stencils. They were so FUN to use!!!

The two challenges that inspired me to create this card are Freshly Made Sketches #498, the Color Hues Challenge #23-use Pink and Yellow and The Flower Challenge #59-use dies. Of course I was late with Color Hues!!

I used a stencil and Twisted Citron Distress Ink to create the foliage in the frame. The frame I die cut using Pinkfresh Studios Braided Oval. 

My sentiment is from my sentiment strip stash. I added some gold pearls randomly around the card.

The colors I used for the stencil are Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Kitsch Flamingo and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink.

For my next card I used Simple Stories Simple Vintage Lemon Twist Paper and ephemera.

I started by using Antique Linen and Walnut Stain Distress Ink to ink the edges of my white A2 Neenah White cardstock. 

I took pieces of ephemera to embellish the card.

I added a sentiment I created on my computer. I just LOVE this paper set and had so much fun making my card!!

Well that is all for today. I thank you for taking the time to stop by today!!

Guest Designer for the Waffle Flower August Challenge-Unexpected Supplies

 Hello Crafters!!! 

I am so excited to be here today as a Guest Designer for the Waffle Flower Challenge for August-Unexpected Supplies. 

Jeanne Jachna from A Kept Life invited me to be her guest for this challenge and we decided to go deeper with a mini theme-use supplies that you have not used in a while. I have decided to use brads on my cards as my "unexpected" supply.

Okay, to be on the level here, I am terrible about getting rid of things that I do not use. My husband this summer said that I should throw half my craft room supplies out as we were moving my room from downstairs to upstairs. I cannot get rid of things. I have a mental attachment and often when I give things away, I find that I need them or want to use them. This is why I have never gotten rid of my brad supply. Is anyone out there like me?

I knew what I was going to create the minute Jeanne asked me to join her for this challenge. I had just received a Waffle Flower order and had a design in mind. I decided to use Waffle Flower's Rustic Rainbow Dies, Outlined Clouds Die, and the Oversized Rainbow Stamps. 

For my first card, I chose to use brads on the Rustic Rainbow die. My intention was to use brads on every color layer but I couldn't because I had less colors of the brads I needed then I thought. So, I decided to make an untraditional rainbow and utilize the colors that I did have. I made sure that I had enough of each color brad to use on every other layer.

I used foam adhesive to adhere the rainbow die cut over the Outlined Clouds Dies, that I had already glued to a sky blue card base. 

I put together my sentiment, using the Oversized Rainbow stamp set, by stamping the first part in black and used different colored ink for the "rainbow" word. 

For my second card, I made a traditional rainbow but only used brads on one layer. I had a bunch of yellow flower brads in my stash and I decided they would be perfect, since yellow was in the middle of my rainbow.

I adhered this rainbow over the cloud "extras" from the Outlined Clouds Die. I actually had die cut the clouds three times and the clouds on this card are two die cuts high. 

On a few of my clouds, I added some glitter glue to make them sparkle and shine.

I used blue ink for the first part of the sentiment from the Oversized Rainbow stamp set. I wanted it to match the sky I had created by blending a blue ink over a white card base.

Again, I used the same technique for the "rainbow" part of the sentiment that I did on the first card. My card was complete. 

I had SO MUCH fun creating these cards that I created another card using this technique with different Waffle Flower supplies that I will upload later on this week. I challenge YOU to drag out those brads to use on a card you create!!! Post it on IG with #WFChallenge2108 and tag me in it-@hobbitnoll-so I can comment on what you create!!!

I want to thank Jeanne Jachna and Waffle Flower for inviting me to be part of this challenge. Also, please hop on over to Darnell's blog djkardkreations to see what she created for this challenge. If I know her, it was something FABULOUS!!!

I want to thank all of you for taking the time to stop by today. Have a FABULOUS day!!!

Supplies:

**Some Affiliate Links used at no extra cost to you. All Affiliate Links indicated by an asterisk.

Paper: *Neenah Solar White, Stampin Up! Bliss Blue, Paper Scraps

Stamps: Waffle Flower Oversized Rainbow

Ink: Simon Says Stamp Steel Blue, *Memento Tuxedo Black, Pinkfresh Studio Berrylicious and Clementine, Altenew *Fresh Lemon, *Grass Field and *Iceberg

Dies: Waffle Flower Rustic Rainbow and Outlined Clouds

Brads: Green-Queen and Company, Doodlebug Design, Orange-Doodlebug Design, Red-Making Memories, Yellow Flowers-Making Memories

Other: Sizzix Big Shot, Nuvo Glitter Gloss Pen, *Fresh Snowfall Glitter Accents by *Nuvo, Scrapbook.com Domed Ink Blending Tool, *Ranger Multi-matte Adhesive, Foam Adhesive

Thinking of You with CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

 Hello my friends!!!

Once again it is my turn on the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog with a card I created using one of the gel plate backgrounds from my August 2nd Post. I cut down the negative portion and paired it with the Flower Duo set to create a fun card. I am posting a sneak peek below!!

Hop on over to MY POST to see how this card was created!!!!

Thank you for dropping by. Have a FABULOUS day!!!

There is a NEW CHALLENGE up at Cupcake Inspirations Blog

Hello all my friends!! Today there is a NEW CHALLENGE up at Cupcake Inspirations Blog. It is a color challenge for the next two weeks. Use the colors Aqua, Blue and Brown on your card. I kind of mixed up my colors and used some blue too.

The inspiration for my card came directly from the photo for Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #525. 

I did not want to color my frosting aqua so I made it vanilla with aqua tones. The cupcake paper I chose to color in a deeper shade of the aqua.

I chose to make the cupcake "chocolate" so that is where my color brown came in. Yes, it is just a touch but this challenge is how YOU interpret it, right?

The cupcake image is from My Favorite Things *Mice Day to Celebrate stamp set. I used Copic markers to color it in an Stickles in *Christmas Red and *Ice Blue for sprinkles on top of the cup cake.

The sentiment is from a retired Sweet and Sassy Stamp set. The background stripe is my FAVORITE element on this card. This is a retired My Favorite Things Diagonal Stripe Cling. I forgot I even had this stamp and need to spend a day making some backgrounds!!

I die cut the stripe and white panels with the Lawn Fawn *Stitched Rectangle Dies. 

I had a lot of fun creating this card and I hope you will join us at the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge to create a project of your own! Be sure to hop on over and see what the other Design Team Members Created. 

I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by. I hope you have a FABULOUS day!!

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