Pretty cupcakes

Hello lovely people,

It was another lovely day yesterday so Dr. Hubby and I enjoyed a walk in the beautiful Gloucestershire countryside.  I did miss all the gorgeous rolling green hills and woodlands while I was away; you can't beat it IMHO.

The only downside was that we both acquired a tick while out and about (note to self: stop wearing shorts no matter how hot it is!) but I managed to remove them safely with tweezers - phew!

Ok, let's move on to something a little nicer...

It's time for a new challenge at In The Pink and for this challenge we have an inspiration photo;

Aren't these just gorgeous...almost too gorgeous to eat!
You can use any element from this photo such as cake, bows, pearls, flowers.
Don't forget we want to see more pink than any other colour!

Our fabulous sponsor this time is The Ribbon Girl with a £10 voucher

I took this theme very literally and made a cupcake shaped card!

In keeping with the inspiration photo I added a topping of plenty of flowers and pearls!

Card recipe;

Cupcake shaped base: cut with Cricut (Cartridge = Straight from the nest)

DP: Vintage baby - Maja Designs (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Dies: Tea label tags - Magnolia Doohickeys

Sentiment: from Happy Bears stamp set - LOTV

If you haven't already done so then do pop over to In The Pink and check out the gorgeous creations from the rest of the Pink Ladies.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Cute CAS bunnies

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at As You Like It and our theme is...

YOUR FAVOURITE: BIG OR LITTLE BOWS
...and don't forget to tell us why it's your favourite!

Our sponsor this time is Sweet 'n Sassy stamps with a $10 voucher

I am a huge fan of bows but you will see that they are almost always tiny because I mostly use them to tie on sentiment tags.

My design is CASEd from my lovely blogging buddy Christine and you can find the gorgeous card that inspired me here!

I used part of a pre-cut scalloped card base to create a panel which I layered onto a square card base, using a few extra layers of card behind it to add dimension.

I made a few of these designs with different bunny images and different sentiment tags.

I cut the frame using a scalloped die and a circle die and added foam pads behind to raise it up a little, and popped on a sentiment tag at a jaunty angle.

Card recipe;

Image: Bunny wishes trio - LOTV

Tag: Sentiment tags - LOTV

Dies: Circle stax - MFT Die-namics, scalloped circles - Spellbinders Nestabilities
Twine: from stash

Copic colours;
Bunnies: W00/0/1/2/3/4
Bunny ears: R000/01
Pink: RV10/11/34
Yellow: YR20/21
Aqua: BG10/11

I hope you will pop over to As You Like It and check out the fabulously creative projects from the rest of the team :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,