Tart and Tangy Watermelons & Cupcake Challenge

This card actually fulfills a couple of challenges. The first is Taylors Cupcake Challenge. The second is to use nestabilities - which I used for my rectangle and for my pink scallop rectangle at http://www.mdcchallenges.blogspot.com/. The last is for Our Creative Corner - I had to use embossing and I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the background on the CTMH cardstock - Amethyst. The ribbon and flowers were from some blog candy that I won so I have no idea what company they are from. The DP is Basic Grey Euphoria. The cupcake stamp is from Inque Boutique and I paper pieced the cupcake liner with Euphoria paper. The icing was colored in using Copics and the sprinkles were Taylor Twinkles. The bling in the center of the flowers are from Doodlebug.

I can't take credit for this idea. I saw this on someone else's blog but I can't remember where! What you do is take your orange stamp from the SU tart and tangy stamp set and use your markers to color the flesh red and the rind green, stamp and then cut in half. Use your black marker to draw seeds and then I used crystal effects over the seeds to make them shiny.

On the first card, I made my own background by making dots with my black marker. All cardstock is CTMH and I used my cuttlebug.

On the second card, I used my cuttlebug and my SU slit punch to create a scalloped border.

FYI: Marie is giving away a Lavender Vanilla Scrapbook Kit over on her blog and I want to win it. All I had to do was post THIS link to Go. Be Creative. (http://www.go-be-creative.com/) here and I am in the drawing for the kit. Check out GBC if you have a minute!

Marie from http://www.mariasstudio.blogspot.com/ also has a giveaway.

Magnolia candy can be found here: http://artfullyila.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

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Trifold Pocket Card & Cupcake challenge

I know there are no cupcakes on this card, but I used Taylor's Friday cupcake sketch. I needed to make a birthday card for my cousin's 8 year old son so I pulled out my new Cogsmo paper pad and my new Inque Boutique stamps Toys and Out of this World. I also used May Arts ribbon and the large and small SU star punches. I used my copics and my copic blender pen to take some of the color away.

I used the tutorial on splitcoast stampers found here for this card. It was a very easy tutorial. I used SU Summer Picnic paper. The cardstock is CTMH crystal blue and the sentiment is also SU. The ribbon is from Michaels. The felt flowers and brads were from the Target $1 spot. I am having so much fun exploring tutorials. Just a fun way to jazz up the average card!

I hope that everyone enjoyed their holiday. I went to my sister's for bbq and brownie ice cream sundaes, yum. Then we set off fireworks. My 21 month old got scared, he was very concerned that the smoke was hurting Daddy's car.

Talk to you all soon!

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