Happy Cupcake Day!

Friday, April 17, 2009

What would you do if you got an email from Taylor VanBruggen asking if you'd like to be her Featured Cupcake Sampler for this week?

Squeal? Freak out? Sprout a grin from ear to ear? Yeah, that's pretty much what I did and I couldn't respond until my hands stopped shaking! Then I called my husband to tell him the news to which he responded with "That's great honey". I should have called my SCS friends - they would have squealed with me! Needless to say, I emailed Taylor back accepting the huge honor!!

That was Wednesday morning. In the afternoon I get a call from a dear friend who had just found out that her mum had passed away. So I spent all evening with her then came home to participate in the last hour of the Club Anya blog hop which finished at 11pm. It was only then that I finally sat down do create my card for Taylor! I had to get it done Wednesday night because Thursday morning was the only chance I would have to take a photo of it during daylight hours. And then it happened; around midnight, my mojo vanished! *insert wailing here* I finally finished this card, mojo-less, around 3am Thursday morning and went to work at 8am! Bad mojo!! And my evenings are normally so uneventful! LOL

In honor of being this week's Featured Cupcake Sampler for Taylor, I created a card using cupcakes! No brainer right? And because I couldn't resist making this a funny card, I paired them up with this little guy from Starving Artistamps/Doodle Factory. He has an addiction to cupcakes! Really though, who can blame him?!

The cupcake stamps are the same $1 Studio G stamps I used on my card on Monday, I stacked them up and colored the scene in with my trusty SU inks and aquapainter. The green strip is the other side of the designer paper I chose. I stamped a little confetti image on it from a Technique Tuesday set and paper pierced around the edge of it. Out came the decorative scissors again and I edged the green strip with two different sized scalloped borders. I then added the sentiment to the center of the circle layer, matted it and added two tails for fun!

If you'd like to play along on this week's Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge TECC64, just create your card and leave a link to it on on Mr. Linky in Taylor's blog post.

Thank you Taylor for an amazing opportunity!!

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and I'll see you all next week! (I'll be in Minnesota for the first half of it!)

Supplies

Stamps: Starving Artistamps 'Creatures' and 'Quirky Sentiments', Technique Tuesday 'Icing On The Cake', Studio G $1 cupcake stamps

Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Creamy Caramel, Close To Cocoa, Morning Marigold, Pretty In Pink, Regal Rose, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Sahara Sand

Papers: Canson Watercolor, Bazzil Bling cs, PP - Crate Paper 'Birdie Collection - Robin'

Access: Decorative scissors, circle punches, sponges