Thursday, January 24, 2013

Happy Happy Birthday!

 Here's a card inspired by one I saw on Pinterest. It's not exactly envelope friendly...but great for delivering in person.

"Frosting" is made from mulberry flowers and pom pom trim.
The cupcake is made from a half of Styrofoam ball in a mini cupcake wrapper.
I made it into an easel card.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Paris Theme Baby Plaque

A friend was needing a baby shower gift for her niece...The baby's room was pink and gray, but no definite theme. I suggested Paris...here's where the project went from there.
Poodle is from Cricut cartridge "Create a Critter"

My friend liked it, but did think the poodle's sideways nose was a bit weird

I printed the chandelier (from ScrapNFonts) and Eiffel Tower (from Lettering Delights) in gray on metallic silver paper. I used Pink Pirouette Card stock from Stampin' Up! sponged with Victorian Velvet distress ink.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Cuppy Cake Box

I purchased Cupcake Box Set from My Scrap Chick recently. I thought it was just shaped like a cupcake, but found out that it has an insert to actually hold a cupcake...cool, huh? Here's what I did with it for my first run through.
Cupcake Box from My Scrap Chick

Notice the Circle insert in the base to hold a cupcake.

Small card to coordinate.
Card slides out of the base.
Together

The only thing I would do different is choose papers that contrasted more. Although these are coordinating, they just don't "pop."

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Itty Bitty Paper Piecing

I cut these out during the Summer Olympics, placed the pieces in muffin tins, which I covered with Glad PressNSeal wrap and then while watching during the evenings, I assembled them. They came out so cute, but boy did they have itty bitty pieces!

It is a huge challenge for me to break from the colors I see in the main photos. Not too adventurous, I guess. I lived a bit on the wild side in a few of these...even changing the blue suggestion for purple. I know, crazy, huh?
She's quite cute...background option #1.

Background option #2


This was my favorite, probably because I cut the image at a larger scale. Was a bit easier to work with.

Still haven't figured out the right base to put this one on. She reminds me of Madeline.
All piecings are from My Scrap Chick, Tiddly Inks Special Bundle.