Cupcake Challenges - Part 2

More cards to play along with Taylor's anniversary celebration.

Keeping with yesterday's trend of using the DCWV Sweet Stack, I have another SS card. I used Stephanie Hargis' sketch for this one.

This card was super duper easy because there was a sheet of PP that had all 3 of these patterns on it! I simply cut the different patterns into strips and reassembled them back onto my card. The Dark Chocolate ink and cardstock, as well as the sentiment and swirly star images are from Papertrey Ink.

The next 2 cards were both made with the Basic Grey Two Scoops collection (I so love this color palette!).

This first one used Monika Davis' sketch. I had a hard time with the sketch, but I'm still pretty happy with the resulting card! The Rosebud Cupcake image is from Lockhart Stamp Company, and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

And the last card for today used Sherrie Siemens' sketch. I really had a lot of fun with this sketch. Although I do a ton of machine stitching on my cards, this is the first time I've done hand stitching!

This is also my first card using the Happy Chef set from The Greeting Farm. He's so cute and has a bunch of different stuff that he can carry on his platter, including this cute cupcake (I used the candle from the cake that's also in the set).

Thanks for looking and I hope you'll stop by again for Part 3!

My first inchie!

I've been trying to resist buying wood mounted stamps because they are more costly and take up a lot more space than unmounteds, but I finally broke down and bought some Karen Lockhart stamps recently from Ellen Hutson's store. I've been wanting to try an Inchie Challenge for a while and now I can!

This month's challenge is to make a red, white, and blue inchie and here's mine--->

It's really hard to see all the detail so you might have to click to enlarge the pictures. I used this adorable Itty Bitty Escargot stamp along with a couple different patterned papers from The Daisy Buckets' Rock Star line.

I stamped him once on the blue paper, once on the red, and then 7 times on scrap white cardstock. I colored just his neck and head on 1 of the 7 and cut it out nicely. The other 6 were cut inside the lines to use for layering for dimension. 3 of them included the head, and then the other 3 were only of the shell.

You can see the dimension better in the close-up. As usual, I'm using scrap cardstock for layering because my foam tape is way too thick to pop up such little objects.

You can just barely see it, but I did one layer of dimensional adhesive on the shell, let it dry, then scribbled over the lines with a stardust glitter pen. I then put another layer of dimensional adhesive over that to lock in the glitter and give it more height. I also traced around the stars on the blue paper with the same glitter pen for more sparkle.

I'm a little sad that my lack of photography skills don't do this little guy justice!