It's Your Birthday-Sweet!

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm sharing a birthday card today that I made with stamps from DRS Designs in honor of a friend of mine with a sweet tooth as big as they come. Really though, doesn't that describe almost anyone?! When it's your special day, I think it's almost a crime not to indulge :)

 

My bright and cheerful card was made using an embossing folder that has a single row of balloons. It left the right side plain, so I stamped that using the Spatter Background in red and orange ink. I added a strip of white cardstock stamped again in orange and red, only this time using the Easy Dot Background. Before adhering it to my card, I added a punched border and a bit of ribbon.  

 

 

 

I was able to fit the top part of the "Sweet" Birthday Greeting in the Birthday Candle Address Frame, so I colored those candles to match and stamped the "sweet" right underneath. The Cherry Top Cupcake was stamped colored and fussy cut and then adhered with a pop dot. And to make it extra sweet, I added Stickles to the frosting and Glossy Accents to the cherry.

 

I hope your day is extra sweet!

Karin

 

 P.S. If you are in the mood to make cards and show your support to our armed forces, be sure to click on the photo in my side bar.  It will give you all of the details regarding the card drive that DRS Designs is holding.  As always, there are prizes involved!



Maybe a Cupcake?

Hi Everyone,

I made this card for someone who was recovering from some minor surgery over the holidays, but I'm hoping the cupcake helps me say goodbye.  Sadly this is my last post for Lindsay's Stamp Stuff.  I have decided to step down from the design team for personal reasons, nothing bad or sad, don't worry.  I just will have less time to devote to card making, so I thought it was the only fair thing to do.  I will dearly miss the interaction with some of the sweetest design teammates out there, but at least in the land of blogs, we all have a spot to visit each other.

Mostly my thanks go out to Lindsay herself, she gave me my first design team spot when I was a blogging newbie, and has been nothing but generous and gracious.  I hope that you will continue to visit her personal blog, The Frugal Crafter.  No one out there has more clever ideas and tips than she does!

Cupcakes on this card from the set Sweet Stuff II

Thanks so much  for visiting me and now I think I need a real cupcake.

Challenges for this card:

Paper Take Weekly-Anything Goes

Party Time Tuesday-Anything Goes

Stamp N Doodle-Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday-Anything Goes

Cupcake Craftroom-Anything Goes

House of Gilli-Anything Goes

Heart Song Inspirations-Anything Goes

Stamps R Us-Anything Goes

Cutie Pie Challenge-Use a Sentiment

The Pink Elephant-Anything Goes

Details not listed above-Paper: The Paper Company, Heidi Grace, Markers: Copic, Ink: Stampin' Up, Doily: Darice, Rubber Stamp: Inkadinkado, Gems and ribbon from my supplies.

Sweet Treat

Good Morning!

Today I have a new card for the My Grafico sketch challenge. We would love for you to play along and link up your card to win the set we are playing with this week. It's the Love Grows Here set from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff! I had these darling papers with embossed cherries in my stash of stuff, so I knew right away I would choose this cute cupcake stamp with the heart shaped cherry on top! I did a paper piecing technique on the image and used a marker to color in the heart shaped sprinkles. You can see the oval is up on some pop dots in the next photo.

It wouldn't be complete without some sugary frosting!

Thanks for stopping by and if you want to play and need some more inspiration, visit the challenge blog here, or check out the individual team blogs listed on my side bar...Happy Stamping!


Details- Stamps: Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, Paper: Martha Stewart, Office Max, DCWV, Nesties, Stamping Glitter: JoAnn's, Marker: Marvy

Shabby Chic Cupcakes

Just a couple of b-day cards or a thank you for a "sweet" person in my life. I am fortunate to have wonderful friends and family, so I am always trying to come up with unique thank you cards. If you stopped by today, thanks to sweet you!