Friday, August 21, 2009

Die Cuts R Us and Cupcake Crafts Challenge


This week at Die Cuts R Us it's a color challenge of chocolate brown, teal, and white or cream. We also were to stamp and color it using our favorite coloring medium. I missed last week so I was anxious to play along. I'm not much of a stamper but I had a Tim Holtz stamp that I had purchased last year right after Christmas and I thought it would look great with the colored paper I found. There wasn't alot to color however so I played around with some Distress Inks for a background (hope that counts) I also added some Perfect Pearls to add an iridescence that matched the patterned paper.
The snowflake frame is new from Spellbinders which I inked and added tiny snowflakes from the background paper. I embellished with cool fibers, beautiful ribbon, a clear glitter die cut snowflake and a vintage bell.
Cupcake Craft Challenges is celebrating their 1st birthday with a fabulous blog hop and a challenge to use something sweet on your card with an optional cupcake. How fortunate I received my giveaway prize from Die Cuts R Us of a Just Right stamp set with a cupcake center and alphabet so I could customize the sentiment just in time for this challenge. I colored the image with Copics, added stickles, and cut the frames with my Nesties.
I popped the layers and added punched corners and gems and some organdy ribbon and trim. I was so excited to participate in this challenge since I've been watching them since my dear frend Caryn became a DT member. Finally I finished my own DT obligations in time. Happy Birthday Cupcake Crafts Challenges!




16 comments:

  1. Donna both cards are amazing. Love the vintage feel of the first and the fibres. Love how you have done the ribbon on the second and what a stroke of luck receiving the stamp set when you did.

    hugs
    Kaye x

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  2. Love them both, Donna! The first one is so stunning, and the cupcake card is just too cute! Awesome work girlfriend! hugs!

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  3. Hi Donna,
    Two great cards but the die cuts is out of this world. The whole effect is so etherial and the transparent ribbon is beautiful.
    Hugs,
    Fiona x

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  4. Fabulous cupcake card. Thanks for joining in with our birthday celebrations at CCC.

    Liza x

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  5. Hi Donna, your two cards are both beautiful. I adore your 'sweet' cupcake card and the sentiment is so lovely. Great papers and love the colour scheme. Glad your enjoyed the blog hop! Thanks for taking part in our birthday celebrations over at CCC this week. Hugs, Denise x

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  6. both are great cards as always love the vintage
    Hugs
    Norine

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  7. Love then both but that Christmas card for the DCRU challenge is just too gorgeous for words. Also, I just love that I'm not the only one up at this time-LOL!! Kris

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  8. oh so soft and stunning, the cupcake adorable. Hugs

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  9. This is really cute love the image and papers they go so well, and what a totally fab sentiment :0) thanks for joining in with our first birthday at cupcake, good luck hugs Pops x x x

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  10. Donna, Awesome cards .. I especially love the reindeer one! Gorgeous work!

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  11. The more I look at your creations the more I scratch my head thinking I should be seeing your cards published in magazines everywhere. These are absolutely beautiful.

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  12. Fantastic card Donna and such a scrummy image with the little cupcake just perfect for our something sweet challenge this week, thank you so much for joining us for our 1st birthday celebrations at CCC :) Donna x

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  13. Donna,

    Love your card! It is gorgeous. The colors worked so well here. Thanks for sharing this amazing creation and please, keep playing along.

    Smiles!
    Gwen DT@DCRU

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  14. 2 fab cards Donna!
    Hope you have a wonderful weekend
    Hugs
    Lana x

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  15. so cute Donna.. but I don't think you make anything that isn't simply absolutely amazing.

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  16. Love them both but the cupcake has my sweet tooth vote! The vintage feel of the 1st one is amazing, You did a great job with the colors. Love how you sandwiched the ribbon on the second on.

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Thanks for making my day!