Chocolate Cake Card!

This last week was very busy..I worked on getting a few odds and ends projects out of the way that I have been meaning to do for awhile.

When the F4A101 challenge was posted last Friday on SCS I imediately thought of chocolate roses and chocolate frosting on a Chocolate cake.  one day I will get to have some again but right now I am dieting and trying my best to get all the unhealthy excess fat off my body, so I guess a paper cake would have to do.  I also wanted to do the sketch challenge, SC367,  so I combined the two...imagine if you will  the center chocolate chip card sotck strip as the chocolate cake!

Still loving my Big Shot, I used my Musical Flourish, and Swiss Dots Cuttlebug EF's for the base pieces.  The roses were made using my SU Scalloped Circle Punch, and spiral cutting it, then rolling it up and tweaking it until it looked like a rose.
Since I was having glue dot issues I used 5mm sticker pearls by The Paper Studio in the centers.
the very vanilla Seam binding ribbon was the perfect touch to finish off the card.  The SU Designer Label punch was used twice once with Crumb Cake and once in Chocolate Chip to add the little shadow at the bottom, and since I made 2  the other side was used for a duplicate card.  The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations  a long time SU favorite.
the embossed background  card stock is SU Crumb Cake, with  my base a Staple's Cream cover stock.

I hope you enjoyed it!...until later Happy Stamping!

Inspired By Love Card

I started this card yesterday and finished it this morning...Its been one busy day. I have an event tonight that I am making decorations and food for and it has taken  up some of my time this week.  When I saw the IC318 Challenge I found this Frame that inspired me! (Shocking I know!)  However I didn't have anytime Sat to make the card.  Yesterday I looked at the Color Challenge CC357 and decided to combine the two Challenges and this is the card I came up with...I think it turned out cute.  I used several Embossing folders and Punches...I like the dimension and layers.  the fist thing I did was emboss the GP White card stock , and then trimmed it to the width of 5X5 heart blocks. then I got 2 Scraps of riding hood red and embossed the top and fifth row of the folder again. Then I trimmed the 1st and 5th hearts on each piece. Next I measured the inside square and trimmed another piece of card stock  to roughly 2 1/4" x 2 1/8". Embossed with QuicKuts Circles EF. I then matted it with Blushing Bride card stock and trimmed to roughly 1/16". Next I punched and embossed with SU Scallop trim border punch a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" piece of Baja Breeze.  After punching I line the inside flat edge on my paper cutter where the Black plastic is covers so It gets about a 1/16" edge. then I applied Adhesive to the edge of the BB matting and trimmed  trying to follow the Dots.  then I used 1/16" dimensionals to adhere the framed art to the White embossed backing and then adhered the Red hearts on dimensionals also.  the last mat piece of Baja Breeze was  Cut  1/2" wider on each edge than the white Heart Block embossed piece.  I then punched with SU Scalloped Trim Corner punch then lined up the border piece for the top and sides.. The top almost matched up perfectly. The suides however would not so I centered the Border on the piece of card stock then, used my 1/4" hand punch to double punch close to the rings on each side creating the little dip then used sciccors to trim out the little excess in between. I was going to use some brads in the dips but decided it looked nice with out. The last thing I assembled was the red Riding Hood Heart embossed with SU Embosslit Scalloped Heart to Heart. I used SU silver elastic cord to tie on the SU Tiny Tags love tag..First stamped in background of Baja Breeze ink and then using StazOn Jet Balk ink to stamp the *Love*. After I punched it out using SU Tiny Tag punch. The finished card is 4 1/4" BY 5" What  do you think??
Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Embossed Sketch Birthday

SOmetimes you try to make a card and you have a definate look in your head of what it is going to look like and then you make it and it transforms into something else. Such is this card...

When I saw the sketch challegne I used onthis card I invisioned a mostly white card using jsut color for the borders. but that Changed as I began to assemble the card. neccesity called for more color.
I lov eth e Cup Cake Punch for Brithday cards. I also like the EF I used on the front panel Darice Circles.  I also used the Once Upon a Time EF set for the cupcakes in the back panel for the first time.  I love the texture...
For all the Ingredients of this card please Check out my Card in my SCS gallery.  I have been typing blog post for a week and I think I am finally caught up to the cards I have made so everything should start being more current.

Until Later... Happy Stamping!

Butterflies and Petals

nothing like buying some new stuff to get hte old Mojo Flowing. This  last week I had to run to a town about an hour away from where I live to do some prom dress shopping. Well I cant go to this place with out stopping at my favorite Craft Store. I also cant go tot my favorite craft store without finding something I *need*.
This trip I found some Darice Embossing folders  so I used one of them on this card..Its called Large Petals lov ethe little dotted swirls and hearts withthe flowers embossed on to SU Melon Mambo.  I also bought a lattice border punch by EK Success.  I used them both on this card. I liked how it turned out.  The light pink is GP Pastle's Pink for the butterflies SU Sizzlet.  Certainly Celery for the leaves SU Sizzix die, Embassy Black. This card is definately a using th eStash Card. The flower gemstone I have had for 2 years, finally used it!  have more I need to use.
Until Later ...Happy Stamping!