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{Cupcake Inspirations} Day 10

Hello friends! I’m back again with more celebration fun as we continue with our celebrating over at {Cupcake Inspirations} for another feature of sponsors for our 500th “birthday celebration” challenge!! YAY!

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Today, we are highlighting Digital Delights by Louby Lou – Please check out the challenge blog for more details about this sponsor.

The DT was provided with images from this sponsor to use for our creations:

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Isn’t she a cutie?! I have used Cupcake Josie for my image here that was colored with Copics and cut out with a stitched rectangle die. I used some fun birthday papers I’ve found in my stash to layer my design with along with a sentiment that was white heat embossed and die cut with a banner die that I’ve attached over the design.

I’ve added some glossy accents over the cherry on her cupcake as well as some dotting with a metallic gel pen for the sprinkles as well as for her bows.

Please be sure to add your birthay/celebration creations in the gallery soon before the challenge ends in a few days! We look forward to seeing them all!

Thank you for popping over here today friends! See you tomorrow!

Challenges:

Creative Moments – #197Anything Goes optional pretty papers
Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2034 Anything Goes

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020

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{Cupcake Inspirations} Birthday Celebration Day 7🧁

We are rolling now! We are on day 7 of celebrating over at {Cupcake Inspirations} with another feature of sponsors for our 500th “birthday celebration” challenge!! Super cool!!

Today, we are highlighting Riley and Company – Please check out the challenge blog for more details about this sponsor.

I have loved this little moose for many years and have collected some stamps from them over the years including some recent ones and I always get a chuckle from either the moose or the “Funny Bone” sentiments! So I had to help with featuring this sponsor:

I had to combine this funny sentiment with the cupcake theme and I thought it would be so fun to have little Riley peeking out from the edge holding a cupcake!😂

I took one of the images from the Basic Dress Up Riley, colored him with Copics and cut him out with coordinating dies. The sentiment was white heat embossed over a strip of black that I added Riley partially to the back of before attaching it to the background paper. I’ve also added a couple of banners and tied some black twine around the top of the card. I used a cupcake image from my stash, colored and cut it out and popped it up with a foam dot over Riley’s hand.

I finished the card with some sequins and some clear glitter Stickles.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my inspiration card for today’s sponsor and be sure to play along with us soon! Thanks so much for dropping by and I’ll see you again tomorrow!

August 22, 2020August 18, 2020

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{Cupcake Inspirations} Birthday Celebration Day 6

Hey there friends! We are on day 6 of celebrating over at {Cupcake Inspirations} with another feature of sponsors for our 500th “birthday celebration” challenge!! FUN FUN!

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Today, we are highlighting Bugaboo Stamps & Lawn Fawn – Please check out the challenge blog for more details about these sponsors.

So on our first day, I had used some fabulous products from our sponsor Lawn Fawn and you can check that post out HERE. But for today’s post, I wanted to highlight our other sponsor Bugaboo Stamps…

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Now how stinkin’ CUTE is this little guy with his ginormous cupcake coming at you?!

I printed out this Picnic Ant-Cupcake2 from Bugaboo Stamps and colored him up with Copic markers. I sponged some clouds behind him and colored some grass with my markers too. I used my oval dies to cut the image out with along with the scallop oval layer behind it.

Found some fun papers from my stash along with the rectangle die, sentiment die, ribbon, twine and button to complete the card.

I “dressed up” the cupcake with some liquid applique that was heated up to make it “puffy” and then added some glossy accents over the cherry on top.

Really had fun with this cutie and I hope he brought you a little smile today friends! Thanks for joining me! See you again tomorrow!

Challenges:

Catch the Bug Challenge – End of Summer (what could be better than celebrating a picnic?!)
Little Red Wagon – Use a Stencil (cloud background)
Creative Knockouts – #364 Something to Say
Aud Sentiments – #258 Anything Goes + Sentiment
Colour Crazy Craft – Anything Goes + Coloring

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020

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{Cupcake Inspirations} Birthday Celebration Day 5

Let’s keep on celebrating! We are on day 5 of celebrating over at {Cupcake Inspirations} with another feature of sponsors for our 500th “birthday celebration” challenge!! Yeehaw!🥳

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Today, we are highlighting Newton’s Nook – check out the challenge blog for more details about this sponsor.

I adore the stamps from this company and already own some faves..including retired ones that I refuse to give up! LOL! I have recently gotten some new ones to party with though! Check it out…

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Winston is one of the cute characters I adore! I’ve used the Sending Hugs stamp set with the coordinating dies. And the special thing about the coordinating dies is that they cut out the arms of each of the characters within the set so that they can be holding different objects! I think that’s too cute!

So I’ve colored up my Winston character with Copics and for the item he’s holding, you can see he has a cupcake, which is included in this set! I stamped, colored and die cut an additional cupcake next to the banner sentiment which was included with the set as well.

For the background, I’ve done some fun watercoloring. I’ve used a balloon image from a retired set “Winston’s Birthday” which is also where I’ve got his party hat from as well. Love it along with the “Winston’s BBQ” set that I won’t give up either! LOL!! I pull it out pretty much every Father’s Day! (I made a cute apron card with it this year and forgot to take a photo of it! Sigh….)

I photographed the card laying flat so that you could see the fun shaker contents inside the square frame! Lots of sprinkles, little cupcakes and balloon sequins in there! I thought it needed a pink glittery frame along with metallic shine on the party hat too! I finished it off with a metallic clear ribbon bow at the bottom. So fun!

Please be sure to check out the challenge blog for more inspiration using products from this sponsor! Hope you’re having fun with the inspiration so far and I’ll see you again tomorrow!

Challenges:

2 Crafty Critter Crazies – Anything Goes + animal
Papercraft – #61 animals
Crafty Animals – Anything Goes + animal
Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2033 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Oh So Cute

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020

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{Cupcake Inspirations} Birthday Celebration Day 4

Ready for more celebrating!? We are on day 4 of celebrating over at {Cupcake Inspirations} with another feature of sponsors for our 500th “birthday celebration” challenge!! Yipee!🥳

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Today, we are highlighting Varada Sharma – check out the challenge blog for more details about this sponsor.

Our DT has been generously provided with an entire new release collection from this sponsor! There were so many fun things to play with, so I did some combining:

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How fun and yummy is this?! There’s just something about cupcakes that are so fun to decorate with frosting, sugar crystals, sprinkles, fruit, etc etc and so why not do that with crafting too?!

I started with the background and decided to take the Hanging Banners Background image and print it out over some teal cardstock and then I used a Copic marker to add some shadowing around the images. I cut it out with a stitched rectangle die and layered it over a piece of yellow cardstock to match the sentiment banner…which actually looks green in the photo, but it’s yellow IRL! LOL! Then I mounted it over another A2 sized side folding teal cardstock base.

I sized and placed together the two different cupcakes from the Cupcakes, Cake Slices and Toppers set, printed it out and then colored them in with Copics. I’ve cut them out with a circle die, layered it over another circle layer cut from some silver mirror cardstock. I sponged some teal ink around the edges of the cupcake circle, added some stitch lines with a marker and then cut off the excess from the edge.

I used some glitter, glimmer and shine to add details to the cupcakes! (The photo is not showing all of the fun details at all!) Bummer…

I added a thin strip of that silver mirror cardstock across the bottom of the card front and then took the sentiment that I put together from the Celebration set, printed it out over white cardstock and then used my yellow ink to sponge over it. I fussy cut it out and then popped it up with foam tape over the silver strip.

This is going to make a fabulous card for someone’s birthday. If you need to add to your birthday card stash, come play along with us and you might win!

Challenges:

A Bit More Time to Craft – Anything Goes
Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends– #140 Anything Goes
Crafting Happiness – #62 Anything Goes

August 19, 2020August 17, 2020

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{Cupcake Inspirations} Birthday Celebration Day 3

Hello again friends! We are on day 3 of celebrating over at {Cupcake Inspirations} with another feature of sponsors for our 500th “birthday celebration” challenge!! Yay!

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Today, we are highlighting Crafty Scrappers & Gerda Steiner Designs – check out the challenge blog for more details about these sponsors.

The DT was given images from Crafty Scrappers to use for our creations:

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Isn’t she the cutest with her oversized cupcake and glasses?! I’ve used images including the sentiment from the Ms. Cupcake stamp set provided by our sponsor.

I had so much fun coloring her up with Copic markers and then adding lots of details to it like the gold glitter shimmer over the ribbon on the cupcake, the shimmer over the frosting and then some glossy accents for the chocolate syrup, cherry on top and over her glasses too! I’ve also used a white gel pen for highlights on areas. I actually fussy cut her out and popped her up over the circle die cut panel with foam tape.

I thought she fit the circle nicely and would work for a circle easel card design. I matted her over a purple fancy circle die cut layer and then made the circle easel base a pink color. I cut a strip for the sentiment and layered that over purple cardstock for the inside which is helping to keep the front layer propped up. I’ve also added some gold sparkle crystals over the design to match her ribboned cupcake.

(I would normally add more photos to show you a closer look at the details, but I just had SO many creations and posts at once…please let me know if you have any questions!)

Thanks for dropping in today friends and I’ll see you tomorrow!

Challenges:

Dream Valley– Add Gems/Pearls or both
As You Like It– Favorite Color to Pair With Pink and Why? (Purple is my favorite color, but I think it’s amazing with pink because it gives a wonderful feminine look…and it’s great for princesses and unicorns too!)
Creative Knockouts – #363 Finish the Inside (my inside is propping up the front of card!)
Alphabet – ‘J’ is for Jewels or Jewlery
Creatalicious– #193 Anything Goes with optional: Anything but square or rectangle

August 18, 2020August 17, 2020

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{Cupcake Inspirations} celebrates it’s 500th Challenge! WOW!🥳

Hello friends!! Happy Monday! I have something very special to share with you today!

The {Cupcake Inspirations} Challenge Blog has hit a wonderful milestone and is celebrating their 500th challenge! How cool is that?!

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I’m so thrilled to be apart of the celebration with them and share in the excitement! I hope that you will be celebrating right along with us and join the challenge too! We also have an AMAZING list of sponsors to share in the celebration with us! Please be sure to check out the challenge blog for the complete list…AND…we will be sharing inspiration EVERY SINGLE DAY throughout the 2 week challenge using products from our sponsors, so you won’t want to miss any of the posts so you can see the inspiration!

I WILL BE POSTING INSPIRATION FROM MOST OF THE SPONSORS RIGHT HERE ON MY BLOG EACH DAY AS WELL! SO STAY TUNED IN!

The theme for this challenge is “Birthday Celebration“! We can always use birthday cards! So we look forward to seeing your creations!!🥳🧁

Today, I thought it would be fun to start out with products from our sponsor

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Remember those fun birthday parties as a child and all of those fun photos you took with your friends? Everyone is having a great time together! I miss those days for sure!

I have used the Wild for You stamp set along with the coordinating dies for the animals friends and colored them up with Copic markers. I have also taken the Party Animal stamp set and coordinating dies for the sentiment over the black banner that was white heat embossed as well as the balloon that is tied around the gator’s tail with black twine. I popped up the balloon and covered it with glossy accents. The cupcake on the gator’s back came from the “Party Panda” stamp set and dies that I received as a gift for my birthday month. (P.S. You may notice a cupcake in almost every one of my creations for these two weeks…see if you can spot them!)

I’ve used the Selfie Frames die set to cut out the poloroid frames, plus I die cut some grass in them with the Grassy Border die. I pulled out a piece of paper from the Watercolor Wishes paper pad and cut it out using the Small Dotted Rectangle die.

I finished my card with some bright blue and purple sequins. (Although it almost looks black on the photo! LOL!) I’ve added details with metallic gel pens and glitter too.

Really fun card to make with some really adorable products…love Lawn Fawn!

Thanks for stopping in today friends! Be sure to check and see what I’m making for tomorrow’s post with another sponsor!

Challenges:

Not Just Cards – August Anything Goes
Retro Rubber – rrcb141 Anything Goes (have had all at least 1 year or more!)
Arty Divas– #28 Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday – WWC284 Occasions
Colour Crazy– Anything Goes + coloring

August 16, 2020August 14, 2020

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Inspired By Crafty Friends❤

Hello there friends!

I have to say thank you for your lovely comments and thoughts! Sometimes, you just never really know about something or how someone feels unless you are told or you ask! I’m really amazed that there are people I didn’t realize that actually cared if I posted something! Even if you have stats on your postings, you still don’t know who really DOES like to see what you’re posting. I’ve had some blog friends that have been around for MANY years, even before this blog platform and I’m so thankful for you guys! I am always truly inspired by you all for sure! Thanks for being around!❤ (Even if you don’t comment!!) 😉

I have another card that I didn’t get a chance to share as it was created at the end of February and I never fit it in to post, but I pulled out a very old stamp to play with because I was inspired by a friend to use it:

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Maybe you have heard or seen the Whipper Snapper Designs stamps? I’ve had this adorable little penguin for a while now and I think he’s long gone from the website. I don’t see him in the store, but the name on the side of the wood stamp is “Ice Cream Penguin” and no date. I have a small collection of their stamps and they’re all older as I haven’t bought anything from them in years and not sure why really. I hold them in high regard like my old Peanuts Gang/Snoopy wood rubber stamps as you can’t find those any longer either! I don’t part with them! LOL!

Anyway, inspired by my friend Shelly (long time blog friend) that was featured on Splitcoast Stampers as the FS681 “mcshmidty” Featured Stamper. This is a challenge where you find a project from their online SCS gallery and use it as inspiration to create something. Here’s the card she made that I fell in love with in her gallery:

IMG_6447_12216_by_mcschmidty — card by Shelly Schmidt “mcshmidty” on SCS

I thought it would be fun to use an older stamp I had (I love penguins) and create a birthday style card with it. I have a few birthdays to celebrate in the colder months, so I was just trying to think ahead and I liked that this could be a masculine or feminine card to give out too! I can’t remember where I pulled the pattern paper from, but the colors really caught my eye! Instead of the strip like Shelly has on her card, I made my strip into a banner. I used a snowflake instead of a sun and two enamel dots.

I stamped and colored him up with Copic markers. I used some liquid applique for the end of his hat and dotted his cheeks with a white gel pen. I used glossy accents over top of the cherry on his ice cream cone.

The sentiment was pulled out from an older My Favorite Things stamp set that I white heat embossed over black cardstock and cut apart. I also used MFT stitched die cuts for the banner and circle image.

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I must’ve been in the mood for ice cream before I took a blog break as I just realized my last post had ice cream too! LOL!! Hope you like my card as I was really inspired by my friend’s card to make it!

Thanks for dropping in and I’ll be seeing you soon!!

Challenges:

Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper – FS681 mcshmidty
Crafty Animals – #38 Anything Goes + animal
2 Crafty Critter Crazies – #38 Anything Goes + animal
Challenge Up Your Life – #123 Animals
QKR Stampede – #396 Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – #131 Anything Goes
Crafting Happiness – #47 Anything Goes/optional: birds

May 7, 2020May 6, 2020

*Vicki* from Stamped Smiles30 Comments

Birthday Card For a Painter!

Hello friends! Hoping amid this strange time you’re finding peace and sanity among your crafty time and online community of friendly crafters as well to help uplift your spirits and keep you thinking happy thoughts! 🙂 If you’re looking for smiles, please know that this is the main purpose of why I do what I do here! Helping to spread smiles is something that is near to my heart along with crafting. If you’re enjoying a smile with me, that’s all I care about! Thanks for hanging out!

Today, I have a special birthday card that I’ve made for my mom who’s a crafty tole painter and I wanted it to be a bright and cheerful design since I couldn’t celebrate with her face to face due to the current circumstances:

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So I’ve been having fun pulling out my past card kits as they’ve not been used as often as I would like to use them. For my card here, I’ve used the Simon Says Stamp painter’s palette die that came from a past SSS card kit along with the stamp set called Sweet Birthday. I have been hoarding some special paper made from real wood to die cut the main palette die from and then I’ve cut it out several times using some different colored specialty mirror colored cardstock from the kit for the different colors of paint.

I popped up the entire paint palette with some foam tape over a piece of watercolor paper that I took a brush and some watercolor to make the strokes for a fun and colorful background. I then cut it out using my Lawn Fawn Cross-Stitch rectangle die which I mounted over a piece of black cardstock and mounted over a white A2 sized top folding card base.

Also for the background, I decided I wanted to include some sort of paint brush, so I dug out an old stamp I had and paper pieced some of that red mirror cardstock for the paint on the end of the brush. (Red is my mom’s favorite color.) I used Copics to finish coloring the brush and a glitter gel pen for an accent on the brush. I then stamped the sentiment in black ink over the background and added some red sequins from the kit.

Here’s a closer view of the palette and the real wood texture of the paper I had die cut it with. You can see the shimmery colors of the cardstock I’ve used from the kit. The only color that wasn’t included in the kit was the yellow, so I dug through my stash and found a piece of gold that I used for the yellow color…you can see it has a bit of texture on it, but I was fine with it.

I thought that the background was so fun and simple to create.

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I hope you’ve enjoyed my colorful birthday card today! Do you know someone that would love to receive a happy and colorful card? I encourage you to get out some pretty colors and make a background and send it out to someone! Not only will they enjoy receiving a handmade smile from you, but you will be smiling while having fun too!

I was able to talk to my mom on the phone and she told me how much she enjoyed this card and how she was planning to display it somewhere which was very nice to hear!

Hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and maybe we’ll be seeing some rainbows in our future very soon friends! 🙂 I’ll be seeing you soon!

**Please be sure to join here this Thursday for a very special blog hop and prizes!**

Challenges:

Shopping Our Stash – Happy Birthday
Creative Knockouts – #342 Bingo (second line across, I’ve used paper piecing, image and die-cuts/punches)
Penny’s Paper-Crafty – #467 Anything Goes
Creative Fingers – #182 Anything Goes
QKR Stampede – #390 Anything Goes
Creative Moments – #187 Anything Goes

March 24, 2020March 23, 2020

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Guest Design Spot for The Paper Girls With Birthday Fun!

Hello friends! 🙂

I’m very excited to share my post with you today for The Paper Girls Challenge as I’ve been invited to be a guest designer for their current challenge of “BIRHTDAY“! We all need birthday themed projects, so this is a great way to join in the fun and add to your birthday card stash too! Hope you will join us!

I wanted to pull out some stamps that I had bought a while back and never pulled out to use yet, so this was fun! Here’s my card:

Who could resist a couple of cute party animals! LOL! I’ve pulled out this adorable “Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes” stamp set from My Favorite Things and made a fun party scene with it!

For the card front, I’ve die cut some Summer Splash cardstock with the Gift Box Cover-Up Dienamics and then used it to also cut some older MFT pattern papers to fit inside the die cut squares. I layered these pieces over a piece of MFT Daffodil cardstock (looks to be retired) and then mounted it over an A2 sized top folding white card base.

I’ve used the same Summer Splash cardstock to stamp the sentiment from the stamp set and used a banner die to cut it out with and used the Gift Box Cover die to cut the end of it to match with the upper right box area.

For the Gift Box Cover-Up “frame”, I took a sentiment from the MFT Penguins in Paradise and stamped the “cheers” image randomly with VersaMark ink all over it, but then decided that you couldn’t see it very well, so I added the word to the yellow banners with a black pen in my own writing.

I’ve used the coordinating die set for the Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes set to cut out the colored images and attached them to the card front. Some I’ve popped up with foam tape and the others were glued. I also wanted to add a little sparkle, so I’ve attached a few confetti sequins to finish it up.

Here’s a closer look at the coloring I’ve done on these cuties. I’ve used a white gel pen for their cheeks as well as adding some polka dots to the party banner.

You can see where I’ve used a marker to write the words on the banners and I also used it to create stitches along the top of each banner too.

I’ve also added some shimmer with a glitter pen over the cupcake frosting.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my birthday party animals card today and have been inspired in some way! Please be sure to stop on over at The Paper Girls Challenge Blog to see the DT inspiration and play along with us!

Thanks so much for stopping in today and I’ll be seeing you soon!!

Challenges: