Happy Surf-Day Cupcake Card

 Hello friends.  Today I have a card that I CASED from @carrierhrhoades.  She did a "live" on YouTube this morning for @trinitystampsllc featuring the cutest cupcake card with the Tiny Alien and a Candle Light from @pearblossompress.  It was so darn cute! 

I hadn't had a chance to use my Cupcake Card Die yet, so I thought I would get it out and see what I could come up with.  I also hadn't made a card with the Candle Light yet. I can't tell you how easy the light sets are from Pear Blossom Press.  I love them!

While I am still not done playing with all the fun things from Trinity Stamps last release, I dug out my favorite Summer Gnome Fun.   I thought that it would be cute to have the surfing Gnome, surfing through the frosting on the cupcake.

For the bottom of the cupcake, I added a layer of sand by inking a piece of white cardstock with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink.  I used the Scenic Border Slimline Die along with the paper liner part of the Cupcake Card Die.

The cupcake frosting is cut from white cardstock that was dusted with a little Tumbled Glass and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide Ink.  

My friends were stamped and die cut with their coordinating dies from the Summer Gnome Fun stamp set.  The candle was from the Hey, Cupcake stamp set.  It was also cut out with the coordinating die.  They were colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

C1, C3

YR02, YR07, YR18

Y02, Y06, Y19

BG13, BG15, BG07

B00, B01

E00, E02

I used the Papercrafting Magic stamp set to stamp the word "push" so that the card recipient would know to do something special.  I used the fish from the Gnomies Under The Sea as a fun way to draw attention to the Candle Light Button.

Once I had the base of my card built, I placed some double sided foam tape around the Candle Light to lift my frosting up so that it would be level with the button.  Once that was done and I was sure that there wasn't any foam tape showing, I adhered the frosting to the tape.

I adhered my guys to the card.  The sentiment on the front of the card is from the Summer Gnome Fun set.  I heat embossed it with white embossing powder.  I popped up the sentiment and Gnome on the bottom of the card with foam tape to give the bottom of my card a little dimension.

For the inside of the card, I used the sentiments from the Hey, Cupcake stamp set.  I heat embossed with with white embossing powder.

I think card is so cool because you can blow out the candle on the cupcake.  I can't wait to make some more.

Thank you to Carrie Rhoades and Trinity Stamps for the inspiration!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!!!

Sandy

Hello Sunshine!

Hello friends!  It is finally Summertime.  I hope you are as excited about that as I am.  Today I have a card featured on the ScrapbookPal Blog. This card has my dream car on it and I thought I might combine it with a background that had a vintage 70’s vibe. I hope you have great and fun summer!

Everything to make this card can be found on ScrapbookPal.com

SUPPLIES:

Honey Bee Lovely Layers: Beach Bound

Lawn Fawn: Daisy Bloom Background Stencil

Lawn Fawn: Stitched Hillside Border

Lawn Fawn:  Giant Hello Sunshine Die

Distress Oxide Ink: Wilted Violet

Distress Oxide Ink:  Picked Raspberry

Distress Oxide Ink: Squeezed Lemonade

Distress Oxide Ink: Broken China

Distress Oxide Ink: Hickory Smoke

Distress Oxide Ink: Walnut Stain

Pull 'n Slide Surprise Halloween Card

Happy Summer Friends!  I know, I know, it's too early for Halloween, but let me explain.  The current Lawn Fawn Challenge #198 is Up, Up and Away.  Bats and Bubbles go up, up and away don't they!  Plus, I am always looking for a reason to craft a Halloween Card.  

This interactive card is created using the Pull 'n Slide Surprise Die.  I am a huge fan of this die, because it is easy and once constructed, it still easily fits in an envelope without any extra postage.  Win! Win!

To create a wall and floor background for my card, I used a 5.5" x 11", piece of cardstock. I inked the long side of the cardstock, so I will have two matching pieces - one for the die cut top and one that will go underneath it.  

I masked off about 2.5" from the bottom and inked the area with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink. Using the Brick Stencil and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Ink, I inked in my purple wall.  

I used the Woodgrain Backdrops Stamp to stamp in my floor on both pieces, trying to keep the woodgrain lined up with the two.

Once my ink had dried, I went back over the area with my ink brush to  put some color in the white areas that the stencil created.  Leaving the masking in place, I spatted the wall with a little watered down black watercolor.  I also inked the part of the mechanism that pulls out at the top of the card with the Brick Stencil and the Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Ink.  I wanted it to blend in with the wall when pulled up.  

I used the sentiments from the Fangtastic Friends Stamp Set on the part that is exposed when the tab is pulled up.  I stamped it to the left side of the opening so I could put a hanging bat next to it.  

The images on this card are from Fangtastic Friends, Fangtastic Friends Add On and the Purrfectly Wicked Stamp Sets.  They were all colored in with Copic Markers in the following colors:

• B000, B00, BG01
• YR02, YR09
• C1
• R20, R21
• V01, V15, V17
• YG23
• Y02, Y35
• E55, E57, E59

Once I assembled the interactive mechanism on the card, I started building my scene.  I cut the cauldron from black cardstock using the Build A Cauldron Die.  I also cut my bubbles using the bubbles from the die set.   

 I attached my bats and bubbles to thin acetate strips and attached them to the back of my cauldron.  Once I had them attached, I attached the cauldron to the card with the handles just below the fold that the die makes, that way when I pulled up on the tab, the bats and bubbles were free to "float" above it.

I decorated the pull tab with images from the Fangtastic Stamp Set as opposed to using it as a gift card holder.  Then I attached foam tape on the back of the interactive card and adhered it to piece of black cardstock cut to 4.25" x 5.5".  I used the Starry Sky Background Hot Foil Plate with fuchsia foil to add a little interest to it.  

This turned out to be such a cute Halloween card and it was so simple.  

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you are having a wonderful summer!!

Sandy

Craft Roulette #270 - You're Stellar

 

After watching the Craft Roulette Challenge #270, I was so excited about two of the parameters, that I jumped in again this week.  The parameters that inspired me were A7 and Arch.  

A few weeks ago, I was shopping the JoAnn's Closeout Sale and came across the Tim Holtz Big Shot Switch Plus Machine marked down to $100.  I had been wanting one of those for a long time, but just couldn't justify the cost when I already had two Big Shot Machines.  Plus I would probably miss burning off all those calories cranking on the Big Shot - Ha! Ha!.  I am not one to walk away from a good deal so of course it went home with me.  One of the most exciting things about my purchase is that I was finally able to make the A7 arched card using the Trinity Stamps Arched Shaped Card Die.  I have used a lot of the dies that come with the set, but never the card.  

Back to Craft Roulette, so then the wheel landed on A7 and Arch, it was a no brainer!  The other two parameters were 1980's colors and Interjection.  The 1980's colors were easy, but I don't really have any "interjection" die cuts, so the word Love had to work.  

Trinity Stamps came out with a fun stamp set this past spring called, You're Stellar, that reminded me of the Lisa Frank/My Little Pony things, so I felt that it would work perfect with the 1980's colors.  Plus it has a really nice sentiment that I could use inside the card.

The heart from the You're Stellar Stamp set was colored with Copic Markers in the following colors:

V000, V01, V04

RV10, RV21, RV04

B00, BG15, BG53

Y11, Y06, Y18

YR07

I cut my card from black cardstock and then used the dies on the right side of the set to cut out my other arches.  For my final arch layer, I used the Time Warp Letterpress Plate with some silver glimmer foil.  That plate reminds me of Star Wars which also helped with the vibe I was looking for.  

I cut the work "love" was cut from black cardstock using the Simply Sentimental: Love Die.  For the letters, I used the same cardstock that the arches were cut from.

This was a super fast card to make.  I was worried that it was going to be difficult to cover such a large area, but I let the dies and the paper do all the work.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a stellar day!

Sandy