Sunday, November 1, 2009

2-Card Sunday

I made this adorable little cupcake card for Sugar Nellie's 2nd birthday cupcake challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. You can't tell from the photo, but the little cupcake on the cupcake card has glittery sprinkles on the top. I colored in the Sugar Nellie Gorjuss Girl stamp with my Prismacolor pencils and paper pieced her dress with some paper from The Angel Company. The mini cupcake and "Happy Birthday" stamps are both retired stamps from The Angel Company.
I used my Cuttlebug embossing folders to get the two different textures on the cupcake card. I found this cute cupcake card template over at Outside the Lines blog.

For this card I chose a different fold (the Gate Fold Card) from my everyday card to participate in the DP2 Challenge this week, Fancy Fold Card". On the DP2 challenge it was also suggested we get out of embellishments we've been saving. So, I thought it was a great time to use some of these cute see through, sparkly buttons I've had in my collection for close to 2 years! The stamp I used is Mo Manning's digital stamp, "Shire". I simply looooove horses, so when I saw this stamp I just had to have it! I colored it in with my Prismacolor pencils and blended with Gamsol.

I chose these colors to play along with The Play Date Cafe this week. Their challenge was to use these colors:

I had a great time doing something crafty this weekend! It sure beat last weekend when I was sick with the swine flu! I would love to hear what you think of my cards - comments make my day! :) Thanks for looking!

9 comments:

  1. Rachael...So glad you are feeling better and you are definitely back to your creative self with 2 cards this week! I love your cupcake for SCS and the coloring on the horse is brilliant!
    Thanks so much for playing The Play Date Cafe Challenge with us...feel free to add the 'I Play...' badge from our sidebar to your blog!

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  2. I love this image and what you've done with it! Thanks for joining us in Mo's challenge this week.

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  3. Yuor both card are gorgeous!! Beautiful coloring.

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  4. WOW!!! just WOW!!! these cards are both so beautiful.. I LOVE THEM.. great job..
    thanks for playing with us at The Play Date Cafe.. Hope you come back next week for my challenge colors

    Ps.. I still have some free digi stamps on my site. PLUS some MAJOR BLOG CANDY!!! HUGS

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  5. Rachael, beautiful cards, thanks so much for taking the Play Date Cafe Challenge. Sandi

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  6. those colours look great! I love using prismacolour pencils too, fab colouring on the image :)

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  7. Beautiful job on this card.. and two challenges! Good for you. Thanks for playing along with us at Mo's challenge this week. Hugs, Peggy

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  8. Sweet card. I love the colors they worked for this challenge and you got to use it for another challenge. Wonderful coloring.

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  9. Hi Rachel,a first time visit for me. I love cupcakes so must compliment you on putting together this stunning card. Pop around and pay me a visit sometime. Hugs from Cape Town, Sharon

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