Celebrate with cupcakes!

Hello, crafting friends!

I'm proud to say I've been invited to guest design at Tic Tac Toe again and as usual, there's a fabulous board this week, crammed with inspiration! 

I've chosen the top row for my card - cupcakes, scallops and yellow and here's how it ended up:

I started by cutting a scalloped panel. I don't have scalloped rectangles but it recently occurred to me that with a bit of lining up, I can use my scalloped square die to cut one - yay! I masked off the edges, positioned Funky Fossil's Honeycomb die over it and sponged yellow ink into it. Once the mask was removed, I attached the panel to a card base. Ok, ready for the cupcakes!

They come from Sugar Rush by Winnie and Walter. I stamped the group using a mask, coloured the icing with alcohol markers and fussy cut the whole thing out. There's a patterned cupcake case in the set which I used and I found some snippets of designer paper which coordinated well, so I used them to paper-piece the little flags. Finally, I stamped the banner in the set, added the birthday greeting, cut it out and popped it up with dimensionals.

So now it's YOUR turn! Has the Tic Tac Toe board got your creative juices flowing? You'll find more inspiration from the design team and can also link up your creation HERE.

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card with The Color Throwdown where they've come up with my favourite colour combination this week! I'm also joining in with Cupcake Inspirations where they're celebrating their 500th challenge with a Birthday Celebration and I thought it would be highly appropriate to add some cupcakes!

AND IN OTHER NEWS

My daughter has been with me this week, which has been lovely. She has started the Couch to 5K running challenge and persuaded me to join her one morning. It's an exercise program that starts off with a mixture of walking and running and I did manage to do it but was a bit of a sweaty mess by the end of it! We both had a lie down on the field and watched the clouds making pictures. I described the bull I could see pawing the ground and a crescent moon with a face blowing him away. My daughter is a bit more down to earth than I am. "I can't see that," she said. "I can see a toilet seat!"

Sending hugs,