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,