With a cherry on top.

It's time for another challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations!! 

I hope you'll come over and join us. 

We are sponsored this week by DRS Designs!

DRS Designs is generously providing a prize to our randomly chosen winner.

Thanks so much for sponsoring our challenge, DRS Designs!

Each challenge, we give you an inspiration cupcake and you make a card or other craft project that is inspired by the cupcake.  

Here is this week's cupcake.

I'm just not having much luck with getting my cards straight these days...a day late and a dollar short. Or a couple degrees off to the right. 

This card is for a sweet little girl in my kindergartner's class. She is turning 6 years old. :)

I used this cupcake from DRS Designs. I colored up four cupcakes with my Prismacolor pencils and cut and layered them up. The pink card stocks are from my scrap bin. I believe they are Stampin' Up but I can't be sure. The dies are my oval and scalloped oval Nestabilities. My card base is Bazzil's Marshmallow White.

The sentiment is from Unity and inked up with Versafine Black Onyx ink.

The interior is empty because my girl will need lots of space to write her own message to the birthday girl. :) 

Thanks for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
CASology #130 - Friend
Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challgne #64 - Anything Goes w/ Add Layers
Creative Fingers #64 - Anything Goes
Melonheadz Friends - CAS
Crafting From the Heart #43 - Anything Goes
Love to Scrap #46 - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion #245 - Anything Goes
Creative Moments #60 - Anything Goes and/or Sketch
My Craft Creations - Anything Goes
D.L. Art : January - Anything Goes

Crappy Day (SACC68)

Welcome to another ANYTHING GOES Sister Act Challenge!

This week Sister Act is offering our randomly selected winner a special prize package. :) 

My grandmother went in for a regular colonoscopy and they ended up perforating her colon. She had to be rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery to repair the damage. She isn't out of the woods yet but is holding steady so far. I plan to send this card in hopes of bringing her some humor. If you are the praying kind, please add her to your list. Thanks. 

This is a set I have used before by Unity Stamp Company. It's so fun and will hopefully bring a smile to my grandmother's face. I used my Prismacolor pencils and Memento Tuxedo Black ink, as well as Real Red cardstock. Easy peasy. 

Thanks for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

She wore an...

itsy, bitsy, teeny, weeny, yellow, polka-dot bikini!!

This card is using Little Umbrella by Mo Manning for Stamping Bella. I love her. :) I colored her with my Copic markers. I used my white gel pen on her polka dots. The DP is from Amy Tangerine's Sketchbook paper. And the background stamp is Hero Arts embossed with clear powder.

This is a sweet little Unity stamp that I couldn't pass up and now am really glad I didn't. :)

Thanks for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Addicted to CAS #42 - Sky
Hiding in My Craft Room #156 - Think Summer
Time Out #9 - Fun in the Sun
Crafty Little Fairies: July - Summer Fun
Creative Corner Challenges - Outdoors
Crafting at the Weekend #3 - Anything Goes
Dream Valley #85 - inspired by "She Wore an Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" (song)
Crafting by Designs: July - Anything Goes
Ditzie Digi Design Challenge - Anything Goes
Colouring Crazy Graph It Challenge #27 - Anything Goes w/ Markers
Art by MiRan #9 - Anything Goes
Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards #68 - Summer Day
Fussy and Fancy #117 - Summertime
Wags N Whiskers #132 - Summer Fun
Crafty Girls #21 - Anything Goes
Crafting For All Seasons #80 - Whatever the Weather
HobbyBook Designer Challenge - Summer
The Krafty Hands Challenge: July - Summer Holidays
The Kraft Journal #179 - Sea and Sand
The Crazy Challenge #175 - My Summer Vacation
Eureka #97 - Vacation
Crafting' Desert Divas #35 - Summer

Je suis à Paris! (CIC259)

Come join us at Cupcake Inspirations for our new challenge! 

My Creative Classroon is offering our randomly drawn winner a prize.

Our lucky winner will receive a free seat to either
"Color Inspirations: Twinkling H2O's" with Jeri Parks
OR
"Clean and Simple Card Workshop" with Jeri Parks.

Wow!! Merci, My Creative Classroom.

This week our challenge is to go PARISIAN.

French Style Chocolate Molds at Squidoo

As luck would have it, I am currently making my way to Paris!! :) For reals, y'all.

I know this card may not come across as Parisian but below you can see my inspiration. Plus, I have no Parisian stamps or supplies readily available. :)

Original found here

I started with the Rain or Shine stamp and sentiment set from Unity Stamp Company. I colored two of the images up with my Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut the umbrella out of one. I popped it up it create some depth. This is going to my husband while I'm away; there's a little love on the inside. :)

Thanks for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy.


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Dream Valley #81 - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody #41 - Anything Goes
Just Keep on Creating: May - Anything Goes
That Craft Place - Anything Goes
Ditzie Digi Design #3 - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations: May - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Crafting by Designs: May - Anything Goes
Red Carpet Studios #69 - "Something Borrowed" (Sneaking around and stealing kisses)
Casology #93 - Electric (What's more electrifying than love?)

Make-a-Card Monday: Are you positive??

Again, my 'something new' this week is pregnancy. I have a couple friends that are trying to have a(nother) baby and I thought this would be a fun card for encouragement. I'm not one to sit a dwell on this subject. In fact, I would rather give it as little thought as possible. But I couldn't resist this...

I think that it could be taken two ways; "Good luck with that." as in "I'm glad it's not me." or "Good luck with that." as in "I hope you get your positive soon."

This card was made with the latter intended. This might be the only time I use it but it was well worth it. :)

This is another stamp from Unity Stamp Co. I used Midnight Muse and Pixie Pink (didn't have any Rose Red left) and kept everything simple. I added a little shading to my test with Copic Markers and then matted part of the sentiment on Midnight Muse. This picture makes it look uber bright but it's really not. I liked the idea of using pink and blue for a card like this. 'Cause you never know what you're gonna get!

Thanks for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy (and in some cases, PREGNANT!!).

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Addicted to CAS #33 - Baby
Dynamic Duos #92 - Rose Red and Midnight Muse
Freshly Made Sketches #125

Make-a-Card Monday: Something New

Since there are so many 'Something New" 's happening in the lives of my friends and family that I think a series is in order. The first on the list is...

A new pregnancy:

This is a stamp I found at Unity. Love it. Simple and perfect. I stamped it in Stampin' Up's Real Red ink and tied a baby pink (can you guess what my guess for gender is?) ribbon around the whole front. I meant to Glossy Accent the hearts but I guess I failed to do so.

Thanks for looking! Hope this finds you happy and healthy.

I would like to enter this challenge into

The Crazy Challenge #165 - Red and White (+1 color)

Crappy Card

I loved this "Crappy Day" set by Unity the moment I saw it. I knew if it could make me laugh just creating a card with it, it would hopefully bring a smile to the face of the recipient. My mom's best friend, T (who I've mentioned earlier), is having a rough week. I used the Addicted to CAS Challenge #22 theme "Get Well" as inspiration for this card.  I am also entering this card in Try Stampin' On Tuesday's Sketch #136 Challenge.

That's a shadow on the card from the window. 

I created my card front using Kraft, black, and SU's Real Red cardstock. The brads are from my stash.

I stamped my image in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with Copics. I really should have checked out different ways to color toilet paper because I feel like it look like it's rolled on the ground a couple of times. I am not happy with the shading across the bottom as well, but I'm still learning and trying not to be too hard on myself.

Again, shadows from the window.

This sentiment gets me every time. Just makes me smile, and I hope it does T as well.

Thanks for looking! Hope this finds you happy and healthy. :)