Birthday cuppies and a card

The current Stamp With Us challenge is to make a birthday card - good timing as it was my dear mum's birthday yesterday so needed to get one done anyway! My mum is passionate about gardens so a garden-themed card it had to be - in the end I chose to make a flower-pot card (measurements on Splitcoast).

This....


becomes this...



Fun isn't it?!! I stamped flowers from Cause for Celebration and Best Wishes and More, cut them out then sponged the edges. Leaves are also from Best Wishes and More. The flowers and leaves were adhered with dimensionals, then added various matching buttons and brads to their centres.

Recipe:

Stamps- Ink - Always Artichoke/ So Saffron/Pretty in Pink/Bashful Blue
Card - Kraft/Whisper White/Always Artichoke/So Saffron/Bashful Blue paper from Summer Picnic papers
Other - buttons/brads/Very Vanilla Grosgrain ribbon/linen thread

And where there's a birthday there must be cake right?! As I always like everything to be matchy matchy I wanted to co-ordinate the card with a cake so started planning a flower pot cake, time was against me though so I changed plans to these:


MMMM! I love how these turned out!

The toppers are made by stamping the same flowers from Cause for Celebration in So Saffron, Pretty in Pink and Bashful Blue. Cut them out, sponged their edges then adhered them to cocktail sticks.


Then stamped HAPPY BIRTHDAY with Papertrey's Fresh Alphabet set, punched out each letter with a 3/4 inch circle punch, sponged the edges and adhered them to the flower centres. This is such a fun idea - you can spell out people's names, special messages or stamp monograms for parties!


Edited to add: Cupckae recipe is from the fabulous Kate Shirazi

Have a great weekend everyone!!!
Kate

Challenges

Hi everyone and Happy Easter weekend, the sun's out and I've finished all my Easter crafting (finally!).

Like many others, I'm a big fan of Laura Fredrickson and in particular her weekend sketch sets - taking a few sketches and using the same colour scheme and stamp set for them all. It's a fabulous idea, and once you've got the supplies chosen they come together pretty quickly.

Here are three cards from sketches that I made yesterday and today:


I used my beloved Kraft cardstock, and chose to work with the same image for all three - the cake image from the Level Two Hostess set, Cause for Celebration. Papers are from the Washington Apple paper pack, from the new Mini catalogue.

The first card is based on last week's sketch over at Splitcoast:



...based on this sketch (sorry it's so diddy!)



Next up, the Stamps and Smiles sketch challenge:


...based on this sketch:



And finally, my take on the current sketch challenge at Stamp With Us.





Here's the sketch:





















Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Recipe:
(All SU unless stated)

Stamps - Cause for Celebration
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Card/Paper - Very Vanilla/Kraft/Real Red/Washington Apple DSP
Other - Kraft ribbon/Real Red grosgrain ribbon/buttons/Copic Markers/Circle Nestabilities(Spellbinder)/Crafter's Tool Kit/Vintage Brads

Baby girl

Here's a simple card I recently made for Karin and Dave, who run In Love With Stamping to congratulate them on the birth of their baby girl. Congrats guys!

Recipe:
(All supplies Stampin Up unless otherwise stated)

Stamps - Cause for Celebration (Lvl 2 Hostess set)/ Congratulations (SAB catalogue)
Ink - Memento black
Card/Paper - Choc Chip/Whisper White/Regal Rose/Tea and Crumpets DSP
Other - Crafter's tool kit (for the paper piercing)/ Regal Rose ribbon/ circle punches/Copic markers