Daisy with Flowers 4U

I decided to enter the Squiggle Stamps' challenge again this month as the prize is a £20 gift voucher for the store (keeping my fingers crossed)!! The theme is "Scallops, Stitches and Swirls" - all things that I love, so not a challenge at all! Here's my card:


I used Daisy with Flowers and a sketch from Friday Sketchers (which also has a gift certificate prize this week).

Daisy was stamped and colored with Copics, then I paper pieced part of her dress and her headband. I hand dyed the seam binding and made the little roses myself out of tiny milk bottle Prima flowers (remember those from AGES ago?!) I used a Fiskars border punch to make the scalloped edge, then stitched all around that panel. I embossed the background with the Cuttlebug Birds N Swirls folder and added some die cut grass, a tag and some little half pearls to finish it off. I hope you like it and TFL!

Cupcake Girl

Today's card was made for the Squiggle Stamps monthly challenge which is themed "Birthday Best." Here's what I came up with:


I used Cupcake Girl and a fun sketch from CPS.

I stamped Cupcake Girl and colored her mostly with Copics. Her dress was paper pieced as was the cupcake liner and frosting/cherry. I colored the hearts and ribbon on her dress and also the cherry with a dark Copic marker - you can barely tell there's patterning under those parts! Then I did a tiny bit of highlighting on the cherry with a white pencil and covered it with clear dimensional adhesive for shine. I popped up the bottom of her dress as well as the pieced parts of the cupcake with bits of scrap cardstock. I also stamped, colored and cut out an extra arm to go over the pieced dress and cupcake liner.

If you look really closely at the scalloped piece of patterned paper, you'll see that there are floral parts and dotted parts. I carefully paper pieced her dress so it was completely made out of the floral part, and the frosting on the cupcake was made from the dotted part to look like sprinkles.

Here's a close shot so you can see the detail and dimension better:


I finished off the front with a Quickutz arrow that has a piercing on either end, a bunch of straight and zigzag stitching, and half pearls on the scalloped piece.

I don't always do it, but for this card I decorated the inside as well because there's a surprise for the recipient:


I made a matching cupcake paper clip as a little birthday giftie! I used the cupcake from the stamp as a pattern for my felt cupcake and threw in a bunch of stitching to give it a little more detail. Then I sewed the cupcake and a few layers of base felt to a large paperclip.

Here's a shot of just the clip:


I hope you like it and TFL!

Daisy Sitting Pretty

Wow - it's been a loooong time since I did a card that wasn't for a DT!! I ordered a bunch of Squiggle Stamps a while back and never got around to playing with any of them so I decided to enter the Squiggle Stamps February Challenge (just in the nick of time!). The theme is to include the color pink and feature a heart. Well, Our Creative Corner had the perfect sketch with hearts already built right in so it was easy to whip out a card:


I used Daisy Sitting Pretty and a sentiment from Papertrey Ink. Daisy was stamped, colored with Copics and cut out. I added an extra pair of legs popped up with scrap cardstock punches and then popped up the whole thing with foam boosters.

This card also qualifies for the following challenges:

• Stamp with Fun - Stitch
• Crafty Creations - Cut it out and pop it up
• ABC Challenge - O is for One Paper
• Cute Card Thursday - Ribbon-Tastic

I hope you like it and TFL!!