Non-traditional Card Challenge

The challenge over at TMITA/PCC is brought to us by Kim. She wants us to make a non-traditional card. I made a slider card. My friend Curt posted this type card on his blog recently (found here) and he found it on Heather's Blog which you can find here. She has posted the instructions and a video on how to make it. It was really very simple and my card is super cute in real life. So, I gave it a try. I did make my slits a little longer because I wanted to add my other bunnies to the second and third tier, but that was easy and I did it as I went along. I used my Bic Mark-its to color it and used all scrap paper to make my card, which I love. Added some stickles, the ribbons and the flower and called it complete.

Well, that's it for me! I would suggest you make one of these, it was a lot of fun and mine turned out really cute and like I said it was really pretty simple as well. So, hop on over there and check it out.

House Mouse Challenge #32 - something sweet

This weeks challenge was to include on your card something sweet, as in to eat or the word sweet..... so I was not sure what I was going to do, then looking through my stamps I seen this Gruffie stamp and thought how cute this would be if he was looking at a cupcake vs. that chipmunk! LOL.. so I taped off the chipmunk and then inked my stamp, removed the tape, stamped and then drew my cupcake... LOL.. so of couse the sentiment of "Hello cupcake" seemed somewhat humorous. I colored this with my colored pencils. I soo love those little square letter stamps. I bought them at Michaels in the dollar bin and I must say they have become one of my fav stamp sets to use on cards, they are truly just he right size for things like this. So.. that's it for me, so thanks for stopping by and taking a peek, and if you haven't checked out the posted videos below, please do so, I am certain you will not be disappointed at all!!

OH MY! these are the cutest Paper Cupcakes

Well, what can I say I still have cupcake's on the mind!! I found these videos while stumbling around the net this morning... mindless I say... but what can I say, I love just looking around and stumbling across things, heaven knows I don't have nearly the time to make all this nor the brain space to keep all the information I find interesting tucked away for later use that is fun, full of nonsense and mind building, so thank goodness I have this blog to place stuff on, plus I love to share all the fun finds such as these! I think I might find time to make some too, sometime!! I think these would be a great craft ideas for a little older child! How fun to maybe make these at a child's birthday party? Lots of fun things come to mind.. so watch the video and I am sure it will inspire you to make one too!! Make sure you watch both videos, because the end result for each is way different, but they are both super cute!!

Cupcake Template :O)

OK... my good friend Ami just gave me a site I can upload this and you can now click on this image and it will take you to a much larger picture and then just right click on that image and it should save a nice big/original clear sized download for you... or just click on this post title and it will take you right there also... hope this helps and you can just replace that grainy one!! THANKS AMI.. you're the best!

Cupcake Template

Here is the template that I made yesterday. I promised I would make a one page template of it for you, so here it is. Please remember this is my original template, so please feel free to use it for your personal use, although I know it is not a complex template I still took the time to make it and then post it here for your use, so please be so kind and give me credit for the template when you use it and if you would please give me a plug and link to my blog your creation if you post a card you have made from it anywhere. I would hope you would honor that. If someone else would like a copy of it, please direct them to my blog to retrieve it and leave me a thanks. It is always nice to get some kind of feedback or just a thanks for sharing. So, I believe you should be able to right click and "save picture as" to your file. Once saved you can open it up in your program and adjust the size. You can also open it up in WORD and adjust the size there too if you don't have a special program. Then just print it off. Thanks for stopping by and I would love to see any creations you have made. If you send me a copy of your cards I would love to post pictures of them here as well as a link to your blog so think about it and I promise to post them here with the my template! ENJOY and remember to come back, who knows, maybe I will post a template every few weeks!! I'm creative that way c'ha know! (((smilie smilie)) PLEASE SEE THE BELOW POST FOR A FINISHED CARD USING THIS TEMPLATE..

House Mouse Challenge #30 - Shaped Card

HEY THERE CUPCAKE! OK.. I must admit, I have cupcake on the brain a lot lately... LOTS!! But that is altogether another future post, I promise! So, this week's house mouse challenge was to do a shaped card. I instantly knew I wanted to do a cupcake... guess because that is what is on my mind lately! (hehe covering mouth giggling) so anyway, I stamped the panda bear from the wheelbarrow ride and colored him and cut him out. I knew I wanted him to adorn the top of my cupcake. I made my own template for this card and I when I get around to it I will make a whole sheet pages of all the pattern pieces and upload it so if you want it you can have it, but that will have to be another day. I actually made my base out of a darker pink heavy paper per my pattern. This way the backside of my card was a pink. The crimped cupcake holder is the same paper, just a seperate piece that was crimped. I did this mainly because I wanted my baskside to have color. Since I had made some individual peices of pattern that were loose like the icing and the cupcake holder I just traced around my pattern paper for the icing and inked it with the dew drop inks and them I crimped my card stock for the holder and then I traced it and then cut my piece. Be careful when you crimp things, you will want to make sure you crimp then cut the piece to fit and I will tell you why. It tends to make your piece smaller because it crimps, thus using a bit more paper... so always crimp first and them cut... that was the paper crafting tip for the day! I also outlined my icing in black sharpie because I wanted my icing to stand out more, plus I wanted to have some swirls within the top too. I chose to add the black and white ribbon to mainly pull it altogether since I used the panda bear, plus it really pops and it adds some weight to the bottom which makes it more balanced to me. It really is a balance kind of thing, that's another thing balance, it truly is a funny thing, it is mainly just something I feel in my work, but there really is a truth to balance whether it be with color or a feel of weight and how it carries your eyes. Then I had these lovely sequins that I bought off Easter clearance at the craft store last year really inexpensively and thought that would be the perfect finishing touch. Although, I wanted to add some little white pearls in the center of the sequins from crafting many years ago I couldn't locate them ((oh well)). I also used the same pattern paper from the icing on the full inside and added my sentiment that said "because you're special". I made this for a friend that just had foot surgery. I am certain she will just love it. OK... Thanks for looking and I promise to have my template here in the next week for you to right click and save to your files... I think I might just add a little hanging tag from the bow that says "for you" or "thinking of you", but here is my pic for now.... so in the meantime... have a cupcake kind of day!