This card almost put itself together after I was flicking through the beautiful images of the Serene Scenery DSP stack. This paper made me think of how as children we would blow these seeds off the heads and then make a wish. And since with the cupcake cutouts framelits, I now have the ability to die cut the word wish, it just had to be done.
I cut the DSP to 4 by 5 1/4 inches because I didn’t need any extra layers – they just didn’t do anything but look fussy. I’ve used cajun craze for the card base even though it isn’t officially in the stack but it worked with the centres of the dandelions and it set off the warmth of the photo beautifully. I obviously used the same colour for the stamping (the sentiment is from the matching Sweet Cupcake set) and the die cut. Just make sure you don’t lose the dot over the i if you’re intending to add it to your card. No, I didn’t – but almost!
Since this is a birthday card, I dry embossed the flap with lucky stars. Seems to fit somehow. And I didn’t have enough left from my DSP sheet because I cut it down oddly – I ended up with many strips trimmed off. But this works.
Yesterday I made a card with the set Sweet Cupcake and the Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies. Today I decided to do it again, but focus more on the framelits. I also wanted to make a card with the Fruit Stand DSP and have my favourite paper, really shine. So here’s the result of that combination!
Isn’t the lemon paper lucious? It’s a bit watercolorey and so the daffodil delight card stock doesn’t match perfectly hence the old olive as the card base. Or rather, it matches, but the daffodil delight card makes the DSP less intense. I wanted to really highlight the paper so this seemed like the perfect time to cut out the “wish” from the Cupcake Cutouts Framelits dies – it’s cut in old olive, the same as the card base. The “Make A” comes from the Sweet Cupcake set and I positioned it so that it was stamped over one of the paler lemons, also in old olive.
I cut my paper to 6 inches wide and 4 inches deep. Then I cut it back to 5 1/4 but that meant that I could cut a 6 by 2 1/8 strip from the remainder to decorate the envelope flap. It’s as easy as a bit of multipurpose glue on the flap, putting the DSP onto the flap and trimming around the edge. I love the coordination.
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Happy Thursday and as you know by now, this means a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. But first I’d like to give a big THANK YOU so Sam, aka Pootles, for selecting my card as this week’s winner. It’s such fun playing with challenges and winning the challenge is just the icing on the cake. Which brings me to today’s challenge. It’s a colour challenge this week and I took the opportunity to use my bundle, the Sweet Cupcake stamp set and matching Cupcake Cutouts framelits dies. Okay, if the truth be told, I was determined to make a card using them! They are so incredibly lifelike aren’t they? That’s apparently because the artist who was designing them actually baked cupcakes to be sure that she got them just perfect. Now that’s dedication!
Here’s the challenge banner which inspired my card
Both the cupcake liner and the frosting have three stamps to make the image this realistic. On each I used a single colour, crushed curry for the frosting and tip top taupe for the liner. I stamped off the solid image twice onto scrap paper before stamping it on the card, then stamped off the middle image once and in both cases did the most detailed image full strength. It’s amazing how much variation in colour you can get by stamping off. I then used the matching Cupcake Cutouts framelits dies to cut all three pieces out. The liner is glued to a piece of whisper white and both pieces of the frosting are popped up with stampin’ dimensionals. To add in the island indigo, I used it for my sentiment. I added a skinny tip top taupe mat and then went back and fore between a whisper white or an island indigo card base. Both worked equally but the whisper white made the card more CAS. So that’s the way I went.
I liked the ultra CAS look, but eventually the day after I made it, decided that it was a bit too CAS. So the sprinkles were added to the top layer – the Sweet Cupcake includes the sprinkles and I stamped them in tip top taupe and then added some clear wink of Stella to make them glisten. The following day, I added some extra sprinkles next to the sentiment. Sometimes a card takes a few days to complete!
For some fun, I stamped the envelope, adding a candle (stamped and cut out with the same sets) all in island indigo. I can see Sweet Cupcake producing a lot of fun cards although they are so realistic, it may induce perusal of baking books!
I hope that you’ll pop over to the challenge this week and check out the rest of the Design Team’s creations. And then have a go yourself, it’s really fun. I’d love to see you in the gallery. You don’t need a blog to enter, you can link your entry from an online gallery such as at Splitcoaststampers.com or Flickr.
I’d also like to give a big welcome to my new email subscribers – thanks so much for inviting me into your inbox. Feel free to introduce yourselves or ask any questions that you may have. I should add that I’m a member of the Design Team at CAS Colours & Sketches and therefore on Thursdays my post is later than usual. It’s scheduled to coincide with the challenge blog post and therefore goes live at 7:58am EST.
