Birthday Daisies

I wanted to play with a new (to me) Cupcake Inspiration Challenge and combined it with the Sunday Stamps Challenge which has a fun sketch on board!  I was purging some of my many ziplock baggies of leftover die cuts this morning, and was inspired to use these daisies from that stash after seeing the fun cupcake photo.

Part of the cleanup/purge process included finding a stack of panels from a Gelli roll painting session from 2-3 years ago!  I die cut two of them using MFT's Stitched Rectangle STAX die-namics and then cut a third one from white CS.  Since the green panel had a hint of gold in it, I used these leftover gold leaves and added some Sprightly Sprigs dies (Verve) in New Leaf CS (PTI).  The sentiment is from Verve's Poppy Birthday stamp set.
I pretty much depleted my stash of birthday cards, so this will help to build it up again.  Thanks so much for stopping by...

Cupcakes Inspiration

 

I was scouting around for some new challenges and found the Cupcake Inspiration Challenge that has this photo for inspiration and also has a watercolor theme. It was perfect to create a Father's Day card for my dad! 

 I was inspired by the green and blue cupcake (also my dad's favorite colors) and used Pelikan paints to create a watercolor wash over the white embossed Abstract Triangles background stamp by Simon Says Stamp.  

I masked off a portion of an old sentiment stamp by Darcie's and paired it with the "happy" die (WPlus9's Happy Trio set).  I stacked two white dies then offset it over one black die to create a shadow effect.  I scattered a variety of stitched stars (Lil' Inker Designs) over the background.  

Now I need to get this into the mailbox ASAP!  Thanks so much for stopping by.  Heading out to work in a few minutes.

CAS Cupcake Inspiration

I created this card for the SCS CAS Challenge (to use Cameo Coral, Certainly Celery, Night of Navy) and also played along with the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #200 where we can pick one of the previous 199 cupcake photos for inspiration. I chose challenge #51 with the butterfly and leaves theme (see photo on right). This 200th challenge has some incredible prizes being offered, so you'll want to check it out and play along HERE!

I used a butterfly embossing folder on the white panel. A couple of Verve banners (from the new "Remember This" set) topped with die cut leaves and new Verve flowers from the "Surely Goodness" set finish off this card.

STAMPS: Surely Goodness and Remember This - both by Verve PAPER: Night of Navy, White, Certainly Celery
INK: Night of Navy, Calypso Coral
ACCESSORIES: Sizzix Little Leaves die by SU, Goodness Flowers die set by Verve, Pearls, Butterfly EF, Corner chomper.