Sparkly Fun Friday -- my new stuff

Sparkly Fun Fridays features a sparkly or glittery project using shimmer paints, embossing powders, glitters, rhinestones... anything shiny to welcome the weekend in a fun way!!!
Hi everyone,



today I finally took a little time to play with some new stuff...

You can see here two of the new Stampin' Up! in color : Pear pizzazz and Poppy parade.

I also played with a brand new stamp set : level 2 hostess Apple Blossoms, isn't it gorgeous??

I really love the softness of those images paired with the new colors, so for a little touch of texture, I used my new (to me!!) itty bitty punch. They're so tiny and cute, love'em , love'em, love'em!! I added a bit of Crystal Effect in the middle of the flower

I made a couple of them because I tought they would be the perfect gift card set for a teacher gift, to show them our appreciation of their awesome work.

Have a nice Stampin' day!!

Gen

Sweet Treat Thursday -- STRAWBERRY!!!!

Sweet Treat Thursdays are all about food -- our other favorite topic -- and features ways to embellish/wrap/present something edible. CAUTION: May be hazardous to your waistline!

Hi everyone,

Every Friday, I meet up with my friend Caroline for a scrapbooking playdate. Of course, no playdate would be complete without some kind of treat. And when the mood strikes me (or when my 2 + 1 kids allow me extra time), I like to bake. For our date last week, I decided to bake strawberry cupcakes.

Since they say presentation is half of the eating experience, I thought I would present Caroline's cupcake in a cute little box:

There are real strawberries in both the cupcake AND the icing. Yuuuuuuuuummmmmmyyy!!!

The box is a modified version of this project. I used the Rockabilly DSP (retired) to cover the outside panels of the box and the belly band is a piece of Old Olive CS.

Here's a view of the box when it opens up to reveal the yumm-o cupcake.

To embellish the belly band, I used 2 Whisper White punched circles, 2 Basic Black punched Extra-Large Flowers and Old Olive swirls made with the Swirls Scribbles Sizzlits die for the Big Shot. The cute little strawberries were stamped from the Tart & Tangy Stamp Set using Old Olive and Riding Hood Red markers.

OK, who's hungry?! :-)

Have a nice stampin' day! Gen

Whatever Challenge Wednesday -- SSSC73

Whatever Challenge Wednesdays features a challenge from the blogosphere, chosen randomly. Here's our pick for this week:

Hi everyone,

For this Wednesday's challenge, we're playing with the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #73. Here's the sketch:

and here's my interpretation. It's quite colorful, even for me, but little girl inspired me to choose these colors (now, if I were really truthful i'd say she "spoke" to me ... but then some people might say I'm crazy!).

The coloring was done with a mixture of Stampin' Up! Markers and some coloring pencils and Gamsol.

This one is going to a customer of mine who requested a few custom cards -- twelve down ... 3 to go!

Have a nice stampin' day! CeeCee

Two 4 Tuesday -- Sara's Thank yous

Two for Tuesday features 2 projects that are similar in either color, theme, layout or embellishment but... with a different twist!

Hi everyone,

I had these for quite a while, waiting to be shown, but not to spoil the surprise, I wanted to wait I hand them all before sharing them with you. While some of you did saw them already, it's because you received one and I really want to thank you again, for all the little things and attentions you gave our family when baby Sara was born, THANK YOU.

They're thank you card, it is very simple, just fold, decorate and slide a belly band. I decided to make two styles , one with cottage wall DSP and the other with strawberry lemonade, all of them using the little ducky from nursery necessities stamp set.

Here's a peek at the inside:

For a little more girly effect, I sprayed the scallop with my own shimmer mist (rubbing alcohol + frost white shimmer paint) and it doesn't show on the picture put they really shine!!!

Have a nice stampin' day!

Gen

Quickie Mini Monday -- father's day card

Quickie Mini Mondays feature a 10 minute-or-less project -- something fast, fun and easy to reproduce and mass produce.

Hi everyone,

I had a difficult time doing something quick and simple today. But then again, using a Simply Scrappin' Kit minimizes the time spent on stamping. Here I've used Tailor-Made SS which is perfect for a masculine card because of its color combo of Not Quite Navy, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip and Sahara Sand.

For the word Dad, I used chipboard letters and left them raw. I inked up the edges in Chocolate Chip ink because it just needed that definition.

In retrospect, it WAS a quickly put together card. Have you got your Father's Day card and gift all planned out? Feel free to CASE this one.

Have a nice stampin' day! CeeCee

Sparkly Fun Friday -- A Beautiful Thing

Sparkly Fun Fridays features a sparkly or glittery project using shimmer paints, embossing powders, glitters, rhinestones... anything shiny to welcome the weekend in a fun way!!!

Hi everyone,

I've almost gone monochromatic today, until I reached for my favorite retiring color (sniff, sniff), Taken With Teal. I'll surely miss this color! And I'm thinking GREEN cuz summer's almost here.

Today's card is also proof that you don't need bling all over it to create an impact. I've concentrated the bling on my embellishment.

Oh, but how it shines! I've stamped the flower with VersaMark ink, then poured Heat & Stick Powder over it, heated it up just so it gets tacky and then poured Olive Cosmos Fine Glitter all over. Then I cute around the image leaving a small border for definition.

The card uses the French version a retiring stamp set, A Beautiful Thing. I randomly stamped another image from the set with Whisper White Craft ink, Certainly Celery and Taken With Teal Classic inks to create a background. The sentiment is stamped with Taken With Teal and I've added a few dashes of White Gel Pen to bring up the white in the center of the flower. Works for me! What do you think?

Have a nice stampin' day! CeeCee

Two 4 Tuesday -- Cupcake bugs

Sweet Treat Thursdays are all about food -- our other favorite topic -- and features ways to embellish/wrap/present something edible. CAUTION: May be hazardous to your waistline!
Hi everyone,

today we had some critters on our cupcakes !! I just wanted to do something fast and fun and, while talking with my friend Marie-Pierre (go see her blog she's a fantastic scrapbooker), I remembered this pig. So, in the same collection of punched creations toothpicks, here are the spring garden bugs

Here are the punches I used : circle ¾ and 1 with heart to heart for wings. Dot dot dot stamp for the ladybug wings and I simply doodled the stripes on the bee with a basic black stampin' write marker. I added a little bit of white gel pen and some funny googly eyes. The little creature was then stuck on a large toothpick with a mini glue dot.

Now, the final result on the flower cupcake. I have to confess that those cupcakes were way cuter on the boxe of the pan. There is one simple yet good reason, they didn't turned out exactly the same...I had help, from my 2½ years old !!

Here for the details of the decorations :

• William dipping the frosting (read: pressing really hard!!) into the blue sugar.
• Baby Sara eating her whole hand imagining she will change my mind about her getting a sample of frosting... (she won!!)
  

Now you can William killing the cupcake with is bee sword.

Looking at this face, I can guess he loved it, and I was very happy to share some quality time doing this.

Sometimes you just don't need perfection in the results but in the journey to get to it.

Have a nice stampin' day

Gen