Hello Cupcake!

Hi all,

What a busy week this has been! Lots of meetings and deadlines at work, Saturday shopping with my friend, Sunday cooking (wanted to try something new, but boy was it fiddly!), Monday going to the movies with the hubs (sneak preview of Jack Ryan, can't really recommend it unfortunately); I can hardly remember the days that led up to this one! However, it really is Wednesday evening again and that means a new Treasured Times Challenge! 'ANYTHING GOES' this time, so come on over and share your lovely projects! The winner will get two digis of their choice from the Treasured Times store :) Here's my make:

I pimped a little notebook that I wanted to use for keeping track of upcoming challenges. This is my first attempt at ribbon pleating, I found it pretty difficult to get it all even and straight, but I am pretty happy about this first try.

Materials:
* Digi: Magda by Julie Santiago, coloured with Spectrum Noirs & Promarkers
* Papermania Sweet Nothings DP
* Seedless Preserve Distress Ink
* Petaloo Flora Doodles Flowers
* Dovecraft Cupcake Boutique Wooden Sentiments, coloured with a marker to match the colour scheme
* Ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Created with Love (Color Challenge: Pink and Purple)
* Allsorts (Use Ribbon, but no Bows)
* Suzy Bees (Cute and Sweet)
* Incy Wincy (Add Texture)
* Craft Your Passion (Cool Colours)
* Polka Doodles (Anything Goes/Girly)
* Diva's by Design (Use Ribbon)
* Natalie & Amy (One for the Girlies)
* Muse Challenge (Inspiration by Muse's card) I've used the cupcake theme
* CMC Copic Challenge (Anything Goes)

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Ribbon and Old Lace

Good morning everyone!

A few years back on holiday in Ireland, we went to see a play in Kilkenny called 'Arsenic and Old Lace'. It was hilarious, we were howling with laughter! I later discovered it is actually a movie from the 40s. This great experience came to mind when I saw the theme for this week's Fab 'n Funky challenge "Ribbon & Lace". I'm not much of a ribbon/lace user, so this was actually pretty difficult for me to come up with something fab or funky ;) Let's hope these cupcakes aren't laced with arsenic, that would put quite a dampener on things LOL.

Materials:
* Meljen's Design Cupcake Treat Trio, coloured with Promarkers
* Create & Craft Pastel CS
* Dovecraft Piece of Cake DP
* Computer-generated Hey Cupcake sentiment, Circle sentiment from the Internet (can't remember where)
* Personal Impressions sentiment stamp (inside)
* Pearls, Ribbon & Lace from my stash

Challenges:
* Cupcake Craft Challenges (Cupcakes)
* Meljen's Design Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Addicted to Stamps (Bingo) I've used Glitter, Pearls, No Flowers
* Really Reasonable Ribbon (Anything Goes with Ribbon)
* Daisy Doodles (Birthdays at Christmas)
* Wags 'n Whiskers (Anything Goes)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Celebrate the Occasion (Anything Goes)
* Elke Kaart een Feestje (Anything Goes)
* ATCs with Attitude (Anything Goes)

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It's your Birthday, Cupcake!

Good morning everyone!

I haven't been around much this week, the entire house was having consecutive stomach flu's so that was a lot of fun as you can image :s But thankfully everyone is more or less on the mend and I can blog again!

Today starts a new challenge at Card Makin' Mamas, our theme this time is "BIRTHDAY"! My teamie Lizzie's been pretty busy again and made a whole new range of birthday digis that are really too cute! I am using Tea Cup Cupcake in my card:

Do you like? Well, perhaps you should play along in our challenge this fortnight then, because they are up for grabs as a prize! We would love to see your cards, so let's get the birthday images out! You can use anything you like but remember: Cards only! See you soon :)

Materials:
* Lizzie's Tea Cup Cupcake digi, coloured with Promarkers and a little Spectrum Noir Cool Greys
* Dovecraft Piece of Cake DP
* Freebie sentiment from Birdscards, cut with a scalloped circle punch
* Inside frame from the Internet (I can't remember where) + Kars birthday sentiment stamp
* Colour box silver ink around most of the edges
* Cosmic Shimmer Red Fire Twinkles for the candle flames
* Lilac ribbon and glitter for the sprinkles from my stash

Challenges:
* Sundays with Chrissy (Birthday)
* Inky Impressions (Use a punch or die)
* Fab 'n Funky (Try something new; using off cut ribbon to create a rosette behind the sentiment)
* ABC Challenge (Jazz it Up)
* Birthday Sundaes (Inspiration photo + Hearts)
* Crafty Pad (Letter B; Birthday)
* My Time to Craft (Bring on the Cake)
* Digital Tuesday Challenge (Use Your Stash; DP & Ribbon)
* Stamp 'n Doodle (Food & Drink)
* Use it Tuesdays (Birthday)

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Sweets for my Sweet

Hello everyone, I'm back! We had a lovely holiday in Scotland, saw lots of great places. We even were lucky with the weather, even though on the first night in Edinburgh we almost drowned ;). Here are some lovely shots we made along the way.

                                  Loch Ness

                                               Portree, Skye

                                  Glencoe

Gorgeous, no? Now that's we're back home I have another week off work, so plenty of time to get a little crafty ;) Due to the holidays I missed the Card Makin' Mamas challenge of "FOOD OR DRINK", but just got about in time for the inspiration post. Our sponsor this time around is Karber Digital Images, they are offering 2 digital stamps for the challenge winner. The image here is called Cupcake Denny, I had just the right backing paper and stamps to go with this one :) I had coloured the cupcakes ages ago, and I noticed that the Karber image also had cupcakes with little hearts on them so decided to colour them more or less the same. I think it looks really matchy :) You still have about a week to enter the challenge, so come on and join the fun!

Materials used:
* Dovecraft Piece of Cake backing papers
* Karber Digital Image Cupcake Denny, coloured with Promarkers
* Kars Cupcake and sentiment stamps
* Cosmic Shimmer Red Fire Twinkles 
* Gems, ribbon, peeloff, paper roses and pink Nestability shape from stash
* Sentiment on the front: coloured it with Promarkers (I can't remember where I got it from, if you recognise it let me know)


I am submitting to these challenges:
* Totally Papercrafts (Bling It Up)
* Stampin' B's (Ribbon)
* Crafts and Me (Ribbon)
* Little Darlings (Girly)
* Scrapbook Sisters (Happy Birthday)
* Deep Ocean Challenges (Ribbon)
* LadyBug (Summer Birthdays)
* Top Tip Tuesday (Make it Girly)
* KB Cute Monday (Food and Beverages)
* Stamps R Us (Happy Birthday)


Nice to be back in my crafty room :)


PS A warm welcome to my new followers, wow, 25 people! Hope you like what you read/see here :)

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Another pink birthday card

Good evening all! Here is another pink birthday card I've made today. I think this is about the first time that I've used a stamp on any of my cards. On a lot of blogs I follow stamps are used often, so I thought I'd try it out as well. I've ordered some Promarkers and bought some stamps and got to work:

I again used Eline's huis and LaCreaDesign papers. The cupcake is a stamp from a set of three that I bought yesterday. I've also bought a punch to round off corners and as you might be able to tell from this card, I really like it :) The flower is made up of two seperate flowers, held together with a white flower brad. I've used some silver glitter on the sprinkles, I think it really makes it pop.

I love the shape of the sentiments, they are from a crafting magazine and I'm quickly running out of them unfortunately. I'd love a good set of versatile sentiments, but so far haven't found any good ones yet. So if any of you out there know of a great sentiment stamp (set), please don't hesistate to let me know!

I think it's a good first attempt, of course I've got nothing yet on you crafters out there that work with shading and all, but you've got to start somewhere!

I want to submit this card to the following challenges:
* Stamptacular Sunday Challenge (Whateva)
* Paperplay Challenges (Stamp it Out)
* Papertake Weekly Challenge (Anything goes, optional flower)

Have a great weekend!

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