Friday Mashup #20-Sweet as a Button...

...and cute as a CUPCAKE!  Good morning!!!  Friday is here and with it the "Friday Mashup" Challenge!  This week is a cute challenge, featuring Cupcakes (my favourite) and buttons (which is something I always forget to add!)  I used brads instead!

Create a project using Buttons .

Create a project featuring "Cupcakes".

or "Mash it Up!" and create a project with Cupcakes & Buttons!

I inked up an old favourite using new colours!  Calypso Coral and Lucky Limeade...those colours scream "BIRTHDAY" to me!!!  Happy and cheerful, the new In Colours are so much fun to play with!!!

I paper pieced the cupcake with Designer Paper and smooched spritzed the top of my cupcake to make it sparkle.  The Designer Paper is the new In Colour Paper Pack and see those fun brads...they are new In Colour brads in Lucky Limeade!!!  The sentiment comes from the Petite Pairs stamp set, this is a MUST HAVE because all the sentiments fit in the Oval punches which I think is awesome!!!!

We hope that you will join the Friday Mashup Challenge this week!  Please be sure to visit the other DT Members to see their wonderful creations!

 

Friday Mashup Design Team

Holly

Kasey

Lisa

Kim

Heidi

Thanks for stopping by!!!  As always if you have any questions about my cards or projects please email me.  My email is located at the top of my blog in my banner.  Speaking of blog banners, I created a new one using MDS...what do you think?  I love Sage Shadow and decided to use that for my main colour.  Speaking of banners, I am offering some blog candy, you can enter for it by clicking HERE.

Smiles,

Lesley

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Paper Players Challenge #55-For Jake

Happy Sunday!!  Today is supposed to be a beautiful sunny day here and I am ready for it!!  On Monday, July 4th, it was my best friend's birthday, she turned...thirtysomething...and I needed a cute card for her!  Jake is a sweet person and so I decided to make a sweet card for her!  We have been best friends for almost 30 years!  Wow! That is crazy to think about! LOL!

This week at the Paper Players I am the hostess and chose the colours from a brand new Stampin' Up scrapbooking kit called "Tickets and Tags".  I decided this would be a great colour combo for a cheery birthday card!

I used Basic Gray as my "Accent" colour to highlight the Poppy Parade and the Baja Breeze colours.  The Baja card base is embossed with dots to match the Poppy Parade DSP.

I also finished the inside of the card with more designer paper to match!  And here is the picture of the finished card below.  I've not been able to see my best friend to give her this card and present yet, maybe sometime this week!

We hope that you will join the Paper Players Challenge this week!  Please be sure to visit the other DT Members to see their wonderful creations!

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile

Jaydee

Lauri Ingram

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandra Azzopardi

Tui Nathan GD

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Smiles,

Lesley

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Pals Paper Arts Colour Challenge

Pals Paper Arts is having a colour challenge this week!  Click HERE to see the challenge.

I missed last week's deadline with the Masculine KISS card and so I made sure I completed my project on time this week!  I wanted to make something extra special for a friend.  I made this cute card purse I found the instructions for on Splitcoast Stampers.  You can find the instructions HERE. 

After figuring it out, the card purse was really easy to make and I liked the way it turned out.  I created two matching cards to fit inside the purse and I added two envelopes.  I think a couple of treats will fit in there too!  Unfortunately I don't have the colour Daffodil Delight yet, so I subbed in So Saffron.

Thanks for stopping by!

Smiles,

Lesley

Supplies:

Stamps: Crazy for Cupcakes, On Your Birthday

Paper: Tempting Turquoise, So Saffron (instead of Daffodil), Melon Mambo Cardstock and DSP, Whisper White

Inks: Tempting Turquoise, So Saffron (instead of Daffodil), Melon Mambo (Ink Pads and Markers)

Extras: Crop-A-Dile, Oval Punches, Scallop Edge Punch, Clear Rhinestone Brads, Large Flower Punch, Crimper (for the flower), Dimensionals, Glue Dots, Scoring Blade, Bone Folder, Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/8 Circle Punch

Party Time Tuesdays

I found a new challenge blog called "Party Time Tuesdays" and they were looking for a summer birthday card.  August is a big month full of birthdays and so I decided to create a few different cards with the same layout and bright coloured paper.  The only thing left to do is to add some glitter to my cupcakes, I usually add the glitter just before I use a card, so the glitter is fresh and sparkly...

These are really Clean and Simple.  I love the Melon Mambo DSP...it is one of my favs for sure!  This stamp set is also a favourite of mine...I love the cupcakes...

Thanks for stopping by!
Smiles,
Lesley :)

Curtain Call Colour Challenge

I made this card for Stacey and her current colour challenge!  Loved the inspiration...went for the cupcake theme!  It is also Stacey's Birthday!  Happy Birthday Stacey!!  I used the "Crazy for Cupcakes" set and the matching wheel to make this little cupcake for the centre of my circles. 

The cupcake was coloured, cut out and then popped up on a dimensional.  I love this Cupcake set and should use it more!  My card is fairly CAS...I used some Melon Mambo DSP and the cardbase is Tempting Turquoise.  I love this colour combo, I need to use it more.

I used the Scallop Circles #2 Die with the Big Shot and my Circle Scissors Plus to created the circle for the large Cupcake. The cupcake top was cut out and popped up, after I sprayed it with some Smooch Spritz in the Vanilla Shimmer...it really sparkles.  The Barely Banana is there...it is the flame.  I completed the inside too, with the other cupcake stamp from this cute set!  I coloured the images with my Stampin' Write Markers and with Ink Pads and a Blender Pen.

Thanks for stopping by!

Smiles,

Lesley

Stampin' Royalty, Diva Coffee Break and CTD

There is a brand new challenge blog out there and it is in my own backyard! Congrats to my fellow BC Stampers who have created a new challenge blog called STAMPIN' ROYALTY. Their first challenge is to make a Birthday Card to celebrate the "birth" of their new challenge blog.So I created this card using the current DIVA COFFEE BREAK DESIGNS SKETCH and the current COLOUR THROWDOWN COLOURS (again). I also made this Birthday Set for the Colour Throwdown. I LOVE this stamp set! Please make sure you visit the STAMPIN' ROYALTY challenge blog.
Thanks for stopping by!

Lesley :)

Stampin' 411 Sketch #132 and Colour Throwdown #74

I made this card and matching "Box in a Bag" for the current Colour Throwdown Challenge #74 and the current Stampin' 411 Sketch Challenge #132. I was away visiting my extended family in Ontario and have just returned. We had a fabulous time and it was a nice break from stamping!I just loved the colours Pink, Dusty Durango and Chocolate together...so I inked up my Crazy for Cupcakes set from SU! and used the birthday sentiment from the All Holidays set also from SU!. If you would like more information regarding the supplies I used for this card, please send me an email!

Supplies used:

Stamps: Crazy for Cupcakes (111618), All Holidays (114916)

Paper: Real Rust (100661), Chocolate Chip (102128) and Whisper White (100730)

Ink: Black Stazon, Markers

Tools: Scallop Border Punch (112091), Big Shot (113439), 1 3/8" Circle Punch (104401), 1/4" White Grosgrain Ribbon (109025), Crop-I-Dile (108362) to make the holes at the top of the bag.

Thanks for stopping by!

**Lesley**

Sketch Saturday #82-Birthday Wishes

It feels so good to be creative again! With my teaching job and the card classes I held, I must admit I was feeling tapped out! I decided to continue with my chocolate/pink theme (I love those colours together) and played along with this week's Sketch Saturday Challenge. The layout was a stretch for me but that is the best part about Challenges! They challenge you!

The main image is from SU!'s stamp set called Crazy for Cupcakes, I have wanted that set forever and just purchased it for myself! I used the Modern Label punch for the sentiment which is from Garden Greetings. Garden Greetings is being retired at the end of this month which is too bad because the words in that set stamp so nicely, it is one of my favourite stamp sets. I think this may be my last card posted for this year!! Maybe I will be able to squeeze in one more!!

Merry Christmas to all my blogging friends, I hope you have a restful holiday break.

Smiles,

Lesley :)