Papertrey Cupcake

Good morning! It's our last day of school until April 20! Yippee!! What better way to celebrate than with a cupcake!?

Actually, I love this cupcake from Magnolia-licious and colored a bunch of them recently because I had so many birthday cards to get ready for this week!

This one is special though because I made the background paper with my new set from Papertrey Ink, Guidelines Two. It is fantastic. This is a complete copy of the one Nicole Heady showed on her blog right before the March 15 release. I love it!

This is the first time I've stamped on twill ribbon. Love that, too!

Hope you find joy in something today and celebrate with a cupcake!

Have a great day!

Birthday cupcake

Good Thursday morning! I finally finished a card last night, mostly because I have to get it in the mail right away! But I also thought, "Yeah, a midweek blog post to share!" This stamp is from Magnolia and is called Love Muffin, I think! Mine came from Magnolia-licious.
There is a lot of pretty sparkle (stickles in stardust) on the top of the cupcake that doesn't show well in my pictures, but you get the idea! I almost always choose paper first and then color, but this time I colored the cupcake and went in search of dp that would work. The Daisy D stripe that I came upon in my (huge!) paper stash had the perfect colors. Then I pulled some of the bitty dots from my PTI stack. I really love the look of so many colors with Kraft paper. My other solid is PTI's Ocean Tides.

I used the following copics to color my cupcake:

BG10, BG72 and the lightest touch of BG (I added a touch of E33 to dim the ribbon color)

E31, E35, E25, and a touch of E49 for the darkest part of the chocolate cupcake.

E95, E02 for the peachy frosting.

I just bought a Stampendous sentiment for inside which says "Everyone knows, Birthday calories don't count!" I love that!

Enjoy your day and thanks for visiting!

Guest Designer for.....

The Greeting Farm! Marie's collection of stamp designs has really grown and I am proud to have made some cards for her! Thanks for this honor, Marie! Here is Marie's great store: The Greeting Farm!
And she also has some terrific ideas on her blog, also named The Greeting Farm!
Head over for a visit when you get the chance!
My card uses her cupcake stamp set colored with copic markers in some of my favorite colors, aqua and green.
She is going to post FIVE of the cards I sent her on her blog today using Cupcakes and Cup of Stuff (love the cute mice!) as well as my answers to some interesting interview questions she asked me!

Marie, thanks again for this honor to work with your images and thanks to YOU, my visitors for visiting once or everyday!
Have a great Friday! Yippee, the weekend is here!
Cheryl