Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #401

Welcome to the next Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #401!  This week the challenge is to use the provided color scheme (shown at the end of this post) on your card or project.  Our sponsor this week and the prize is from Birch Press Designs.  All of the details, including prize information, can be found on the Cupcakes Inspiration blog.  I hope you'll play along!  

I LOVE Birch Press Designs' layered dies!  They are so much fun to play with!  Since I don't own any, I've only been fortunate enough to play with them before, my sweet friend Tracey McNeely sent me some die cuts to play with for this challenge!  Thank you so much Tracey!  I can't wait to see her in a week and play some more with these fabulous dies!

I started by layering the three die cuts from the Sevilla Layer Set dies to create the card base.  I then cut a tag from Reverse Confetti's Tag Me die.  I stamped the sentiment from Neat & Tangled's Kindness Matters stamp set.  I then layered the gorgeous butterfly from Birch Press Designs Paradiso Butterfly Layer die set, using two of the layers rather than three.  Last, I added a few sequins.



This is such a gorgeous die set!!  And SO MUCH fun to play around with!  Some day I'll share the other cards I have made using these dies.

Here is the gorgeous challenge color scheme.  You can use the photo for inspiration but you don't have to, as long as you use the provided color scheme. I hope you'll join us this week for the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #401!  Thanks for stopping by!

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #371

Welcome to the next Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #371!  This week the challenge is to use the theme Shine Bright on your card!  Our sponsor this week and the prize is from Neat & Tangled Stamps. All of the details, including prize information, can be found on the Cupcakes Inspiration blog.  I hope you'll be able to play along!

For the "Shine Bright" theme this week I thought of sunshine.  I LOVE Neat & Tangled's Scandinavian Prints stamp set (with coordinating dies).  When I was looking at the stamp set I thought that one of the flower stamps looked like a whimsical sun so I started there.  To make the clouds, I die cut the largest flower from the die set out of the blue patterned paper and then cut it in half.  It made a great cloud shape!  I found several bright patterned papers to die cut my flowers with and on the blue ones I stamped images from the set on the paper.  The mats were die cut from a die set found here and here. The grass and sentiment is also from the Scandinavian Prints stamp set.

The theme this week is "Shine Bright".  You can choose to use the cupcake graphic for inspiration if you'd like but you don't have to, as long as your theme has something to do with "Shine Bright".

I hope you'll join us this week for the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #371!  Thanks for stopping by!