Cupcake Birthday

My friend is an amazing baker of cakes and seems to be able to turn out enough delicious cakes in an evening (after working all day too) to keep a cafè fully stocked. She always laughs when we tell her that. I put together some cupcakes for her celebration - only mine are paper, because I'm not great in the kitchen, paper is my passion.

For the paper patties I experimented while using Stampin' Markers to colour them. That technique is 'Ink To Rubber' and can come in handy when you want to pick out different features on a stamp, like the spots on some of the paper cases. I used mostly pale pastels, but injected a bit more life with a splash of Island Indigo, Elegant Eggplant and Hello Honey.

There's some texture in the background with butterflies of assorted sizes on the larger Fluttering Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. That is why there's a tiny silver punched butterfly as well. These cupcakes are easy to make, there are two styles of icing and two styles of paper patties to mix and match in Cupcake Party, plus the Cupcake Builder Punch helps to punch them out. I did grab Sprinkles of Life for the sentiments on the front, too cute!

Unfortunately, Cupcake Party and the Cupcake Buider Punch have retired from the Stampin' Up!® range now, to be replaced by Sweet Cupcake and the Cupcake Cutouts Framelits, available as a bundle at 10% off and shown on page 23 of the Annual Catalogue.Sprinkles of Life is still available.
What colour cupcake will you make?


Cheers, Rachel

Birthday Wishes CTC#34

The most celebrated annual event would have to be birthdays, which probably means that it's birthday cards we need most of - am I right?

This week at CASE -ing The Catty, we are focusing on the birthday section of the new Annual catalogue, pages 5-12. You may have arrived here from Kathryn's blog, or perhaps you are starting here. Kathryn and I used the same inspiration sketch, in different ways, don't you love that you can do that? If you keep on hopping from blog to blog, you'll have lots of ideas for your next batch of birthday cards!

Page 5, is where I found heaps of inspiration. I focused on two of the cards and made only minor changes. Mainly, I decided not to use lace, substituting patterned paper from Cherry On Top. I'm using these as class samples for my July class, so wanted to show a couple of different colour choices. This year's In Colors are a delight, so fresh, and Watermelon Wonder is a fave of mine. I really like the way they co-ordinate with the existing colours and just add pizzazz to the range.The Cherry On Top Designer Series Paper Stack co-ordinates perfectly with it, and the Bermuda Bay used on my other pair of cards.

Build A Birthday, a new photopolymer stamp set provided most of these images, and Sprinkles of Life and Cupcake Party helped out a little when I couldn't find a suitable image in Build A Birthday.

I experimented with the fringing too and the watermelon card has fringes of card, while the blue has the Cotton Paper. The ladies at class will have the opportunity to choose which they'd prefer, as the Cotton Paper comes in a pack of four colours.

One class is on Friday 17th July at 7pm or Thursday 23rd July at 7pm, in South Morang, Victoria. Everything is supplied, no obligation to make any purchases, email me, rpalmieri5@bigpond.com for more details or to book in.

Hostess code for online orders under $250 is B6VWKZMJ. If your order is more than $250 you will be invited to make your own Hostess selections at the end of your order (10% of order before shipping).

The blue card reminds me a lot of a pinata, so maybe I prefer that, but regardless, its easy to cut this fringing with the Fringe Scissors.

Next you're heading off to Monique's blog, she has a cheeky little card for you!
And if by chance you get lost anywhere along the blog, this link to CASE-ing The Catty will see you back on track.

Enjoy

Rachel

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