Yummy Cupcake Day!!

Happy Cupcake Day everyone! LOL. Time for another Hope Stamps Eternal Cupcake Inspiration challenge!! Yippeee!! How delish do these little cakes look?! I want to eat the rainbow one...do you think it really will taste like skittles?? ha!

Okay, My first instinct when I saw this weeks inspiration photo was to reach for my K&Co. Berry Sweet paper pad. But when I pulled it out all I could think was HOLY NEON PAPER! Seriously, that stuff is BRIGHT. I dont know what I was thinking when I bought that...LOL.

I opted instead for my new favorite paper, the Basic Grey Lemonade paper pad. I actually used three different sheets from that collection, the grungy yellowish pink solid, the red polka dotted pattern and the fun berryish floral. I really love coordinated papers like this, it totally takes out the need to spend forever digging through my stash of paper to find the most perfect stuff.



So I am going to try something a little different this week adn give you dimensions for the layers on this card! Leave me some feedback and let me know if you want me to try to continue this trend or not...

So the card base itself is a 5.5x5.5 inch square card. The first layer, the grungy yellow, is a 5.25 inch square. The Floraly layer is a 4.75 inch square. Those two layers were inked and adhered together but not to the card base yet.

Next I cut four scalloped squares using my McGill punch, its a 1.25 inch square folding just off center. With scraps from cutting my card base I cut a 1.5 inch strip of yellow cardstock. I then tore a strip slightly wider than my yellow strip, I used the same patterned paper as the scalloped squares. I slightly inked the torn edged and glued it to the back of the yellow cardstock strip.

At this point I adhered it across the center of the first two layers and wrapped the ends around the back and secured them. I then adhered my folded scalloped to all four corners with a small dab of adhesive to hold them in place while I punched holes for my cute button brads. After attatching the brads I finally secured all the layers to my card base using about 8 foam adhesive pieces. I prefer to use a LOT of these pop dots, they are cheap and I dont want my card to sag in the center.

At this point the basic structure of the card is done. Pick out your favorite stamps and decide on your focal image. I chose a cute changito image and sentiment from two different stamp sets. I also went with the tag shape, that was a stamp too. I stamped, colored, cut and blinged out my focal images and those got ribbon tails and were attatched using pop dots as well.

Thanks for stopping by for another Cupcake Inspiration Challenge!! Make sure you go check out what the other Hope Stamps Eternal Sweeties did with this inspiration cupcake!!

Bonnie ~ Carolina ~ Colleen ~ Jessica ~ Michelle ~ Natalie ~ Tammy