Carolina's Creative Pad

Some Yummy Ribbon!

Happy Wednesday! I'm officially at a beach house for the rest of the week enjoying some R&R with my family...well minus Andy, but he's joining us on Friday. I'm really looking forward to getting  away for a bit since this summer just seems to be flying by. Is it just me or are you feeling the same way? Anyway, I have prescheduled some posts and hope it all goes as planned! The first share is a really quick card to share with you which was inspired by some yummy ribbon a friend gave to me.

I also wanted to try out this month's Unity Guest Designer Sketch Challenge over at SCS and so happy they seem to work out. This is what I came up with - A Rose, Friend to Friend.

The stamp and sentiment are both from Unity's June Stamp Kit and started with white card stock base. The ribbon is YUMMY! Really can't even begin to explain to you how stunning it is. It's a strip of silk ribbon with silk/satin rosettes sewed on. I then added a strip and bow polka dot ribbon right below it with a pearl in the middle.

Under the ribbon I stamped friend to friend with brown memento ink and above the ribbon the owl with the same ink. I added some sparkles with the stardust pen to the owl and finish the card with some corduroy buttons on top of the ribbon. I always love to tie ribbon or thread through the button holes, in this case was Chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon and with halfback pearls in the middle.

Thanks for stopping by and tomorrow I have an altered item thursday and card to share with you!

 Hope you're having a cupcakelicious day,

CAS Birthday Monday!

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Ours was mellow and low-key which is by far my favorite way to spend the weekends. Today I have two CAS cards for you with a birthday theme to them.

First card is for this week's CAS Challenge over at SCS (CAS22) which is to make a birthday card and the second challenge is courtesy of Hope Stamps Eternal Sunday's Cupcake Inspiration Challenge (CIC14) which were these yummy Penguin Cupcakes.

I'm also using this week's Clean and Simple Fall to Layout Challenge (FTL49). My inspiration came from the colors and the touch of black in the photo and so this is what I came up with.

 

I hadn't inked up my Happy Chef stamp set from The Greeting Farm in a while and thought this might be the perfect image to use. I started with a white card base and added a smaller piece of Memory Box Butterfield Designer Paper to the card front. The strip is textured Core'Dinations card stock which I punched one of the edges with Martha Stewart's Floral Lace Edge punch and adhered it to the card front.

I stamped the chef onto a piece of white card stock, colored him in, added some Memory Box Frost Blue Pearl Stickers. I also stamped the tray, hat and present onto a piece of scrap paper and cut them out...I only colored the present and everything else I left as is. Prior to attaching it added a strip of polka-dot sheer ribbon.

I finished the card by adding halfback pearls to the corners on the lace edge strip and stamping Happy Birthday on the corner.

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This next card features two newly release Stampin' Up! sets - the birds are from the set called The More the Merrier and the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Words set and here's my card, Birthday Hearts.

 

The card base is long 6-1/2" x 3-1/4" Whisper White card stock. I then stamped the birds with Basic Black ink and colored the birds in with So Saffron, Summer Sun and used Real Red Stampin' Write Markers for the hearts. On each of the hearts I added some Dazzling Diamonds.

I stamped the sentiment with Real Red ink and added some piercing leading away from it. I then punched out a small heart using the Heart to Heart punch out of textured Real Red card stock, added a halfback pearl from the pretties kit  and added piercing to the bottom of the card front leading up to the heart.

I finished the card by adding a strip of Real Red Striped Grosgrain Ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by!

 Hope you're having a cupcakelicious day,

Serene Artistry!

Happy Saturday! It's a national holiday for us here in the U.S, Independence Day, so to all those celebrating, I hope you have a fun and safe day! 

I have a quick, yet elegant card that was inspired by this week's Inspiration Challenge (IC187) over at SCS. We were to pick an inspiration piece from Posters.com site and I went with this one.

This is what I came up with, Serene Artistry!

I started with a Very Vanilla card stock base measuring 6-1/2" x 3-1/4". In the middle of the card stock I stamped the image from the newly release Asian Artistry Hostess set with Mellow Moss. I colored the flowers with Bravo Burgundy and Rose Red Markers. 

I added a strip of To The Nines Specialty Designer Paper to the bottom with a Kraft Taffeta bow in the middle. To the top of the card front I added a strip of Bella Bleu Designer Series Paper and three pearls form the Pretties Kit.

Well, that's it for now. I need to get ready for the festivities...eek still need to bake and decorate cupcakes! I'll be back tomorrow with a card for Hope Stamps Eternal's Cupcake Inspiration Challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!

 Hope you're having a cupcakelicious day,