Hi peeps! Greetings on this fine August day! I have a lot to share with you today. It was a busy weekend and I have a card to show ya. But first an announcement! I am super excited to announce that I was the winner for Week #72 over at the Shabby Tea Room Blog! Yay! I have been a follower of this great blog since I started looking at blogs and it is one of the ones that inspired me to finally start my own. I have entered their fun challenges several times and I get so much inspiration from everyone's work. To be a winner is so cool!! I am totally thrilled! As a bonus, I will now get to be a guest designer for a week on Shabby Tea Room. My guest designer spot will be on October 3rd. Thank you Debbie!
Okay…now on to my card for today. It's a no-stamp Birthday card with a giant cupcake on it! I had fun creating this one. I went through all of my cards last week and discovered that I am low on Birthday cards so I need to start making some more. I gave myself the challenge of making a birthday card with NO GINGHAM PAPER and NO POLKA DOT PAPER! Are you worried I could do it? I was! I was inspired by the pretty patterened birthday paper from Imaginisce and used it for my color palette.
This giant cupcake is a chipboard shape that I covered in paper, glitter glue and a button!
Here is my color palette and the chipboard shape.
I cut the top out of pink paper that matched the patterned paper and then sanded it to make it softer and give some depth. My finished card is 8 x 4 inches…so that really is a giant cupcake!
The bottom part was cut out of kraft paper and then run through my crimper… I had to dust off the crimper… It hasn't seen the light of day in a long time! I thought it was perfect to make this look like a cupcake wrapper though.
Now for the fun part! SPARKLES!
Now, I said I couldn't use Gingham paper or Polka Dot paper…. But did you see I sneaked those two things in anyway? Ha. I couldn't help it.
For the sentiment, I cut out a tiny strip from the paper and put it on a piece of the blue paper to make a banner. I also cut out one of the party hats. NO stamping on this card – just paper crafting. Sometimes I like that.
Have a fabulous week bloggy friends!
Comments
6 responses to “Giant Cupcake Birthday Card!”
Congrats on being the winner for the Shabby Tea Room! So honored that my birthday card won! Woo hoo! Love the giant cupcake card…bet it was tough not busting out the gingham paper! ;o)
Congratulations, Wanda! I’ll be looking forward to your guest spot! This big ole cupcake looks yummy!
I want a cupcake! Nice Job!
Congratulations!looks so yummy your cupcake!
look forward to the guest blogging.
This is adorable, Wanda! Such a fun and festive card1 Love, love that cupcake. the corrugated paper for the liner and the sparkles on the frosting are just perfect. And you make me smile with your gingham and polka dots. 🙂
Super huge congrats to you on winning in the Tea Room! You go, girl!
Love it! Love it! Love it! Oh! you are so clever. And congratulations on being a winner again! But you’re a winner in my book anyway…