Inkspirational #292 and Can You Handle the Pressure? Butterflies

I saw an idea on Pinterest and wanted to make several cards for the younger people on my birthday list.   I saw the challenge at Inkspirational and am sending one version there.

I stamped the Altenew Layered Cupcakes in Altenew inks and die cut them.  Then I had the idea to die cut through the card front.

I thought I needed a stamped sentiment somewhere so I stamped one from the same set on the inside.

I'm also sending this to Can You Handle the Pressure?  without the twist. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #575

I've been going to make some cards with the Altenew cupcake on it and after buying some fun paper the other day, I decided to combine them for the the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

It's a rather busy background but I thought it looked festive.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set. 

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Twofer Challenge #38

Things are really looking yummy over at the Twofer Challenge.  As Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake!"  or in this case make a cake.  Or cupcake.  You choose.

I chose cupcake because that's the best stamp/die set I have that could be finagled to make two different designs.  It's the Layered Cupcake set from Altenew.

Here's the rundown individually.

I stamped the cupcake and added a flower from The Greetery over the icing.  For display, I put it in the nested dome from Waffle Flower. The background is from Catherine Pooler, embossed instead of cut and the tag and sentiment are from My Craft Spot (oob).

I stamped the cupcake and then didn't know what to do with it to make a different design.  Aha!  How about shaker card?  I know the cupcake is still in the middle but the surroundings are different. ;)  The sprinkles are from a tag die set from MFT and the little pieces are some I saved from a die that cuts little holes all over.  Now that I see them I wish I'd done more like that instead of the bigger ones.  

For some added fun, Darnell said we could include our favorite cake recipe.  When my kids were young they didn't really like frosting so I came across this cake that solved the problem.

Chocolate Pudding Cake

Cook one small box of chocolate pudding according to package directions.  

Mix in one box of chocolate cake mix, stirring well.  

Pour into 9 x 13 pan and sprinkle with one cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips 

    and 1/2 cup of chopped nuts (optional). 

Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.  

It's moist and delicious as is but you could add whipped topping if you like.  EZPZ.

The Paper Players #487

I decided to take my little MFT birthday girl that I was practicing Copic coloring on and turn her into a card for The Paper Players.

I wasn't going to get on the Copic bandwagon, and I still have a little trouble with them,  but I wanted to be able to do faces so I bought a few of those and then was gifted a few others.  I added Stickles to the cupcake for the Sparkle that was required by the challenge and made one for the inside too.

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Inkspirational #180

Things just kind of fell together on my card for Inkspirational - using text.  I first thought of using a text stamp with flowers but then I remembered my text embossing folder and knew a cute little critter would work better with it and give me a child's birthday card.

What do you think?  Isn't that turtle carrying a cupcake just the cutest thing?  He's from Gerda Steiner colored with Zigs.  With the embossing no sentiment is needed.

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The Card Concept #103

I decided that since I do have Altenew's cupcake stamp that I might as well enter the challenge at The Card Concept.

Stamped and watercolored with Zigs, I added the holly, candy and sentiment from CP for my clean and layered card.

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