Gina K Inspiration Hop Day 1: Basket Additions 2 and Lacy Borders

The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop!!! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of deeply etched, pre-cut Gina K. Designs stamps! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!!

First up is a card I made for Jen’s Deconstructed sketch 48 using Melanie’s Basket Additions 2 which coordinates with Spring Basket and Holiday Basket (used the holiday basket to make this colorful Birthday Basket).  I used My Mind’s Eye Fine & Dandy pattern paper which equally matches the colorful & fun feel to this card.  In Melanie’s signature style, with each new set she comes up with, it increases the value of the original sets so you have endless creations to make intermingling them!  The new die set I have is Spellbinders Labels 23 and I used White, Sweet Mango and Turquoise Sea pure luxury cardstock and added some coordinating buttons!  The banner is paper-pieced with the fine & dandy papers and the image is colored with copic markers.

Next up is a card I made using the new set Lacy Borders and yes, I went traditional with the white lace!  I stamped it on the smoky slate pure luxury cardstock and layered some organdy ribbon over it then put some silver pearls on top of that.  What I really love is the simple Spellbinders Labels 4 for the greeting with the top and bottom embossed with my Kassie’s Brocade folder.
Check out all the amazing designs and inspiration:

• Gina K
• Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator Basket Additions 2
• AJ Otto
• Carolina Buchting
• Cathy Tidwell
• Deb Felts
• Donna Baker (you’re here)
• Emily Giovanni
• Giovana Smith
• Jimmi Mayo
• Lee Murphy
• Lori McAree
• Sharon Harnist
• Theresa Momber
• Tina Gilliland
• Vicki Dutcher

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you will come back on Monday, Apr 30 as our inspiration hops will continue!

Happy Birthday Gina K–surprise hop!

I’m glad you stopped by today because it is a special day – Gina K’s birthday!! 

We have all made cards to share made for Gina as a surprise hop for her! 

 

 

My card was made using Stately Flowers 1 (with her home state of Wisconsin, the Wood Violet).  I thought it would be a lovely complement to the new Wisteria Lane pattern paper that was recently released!  The beautiful cuttlebug background is Kassie’s Brocade.  I used a card layout in Tami’s Cardmaker’s Sketchbook Birthday Celebration which is on sale for only $2.95 at Annie’s Attic – what a deal!  I just love using sketches to make my cards, it’s a great starting point than having to create your own layout sometimes! 

Please be sure to visit Gina K on Facebook or on the StampTV Facebook page to wish her a Happy Birthday today!!

Then go check out all the birthday greetings from the following designers:

• Carolina Buchting

• Cathy Tidwell

• Emily Giovanni

• Giovanna Smith

• Jennie Harper

• Jimmi Mayo

• Lee Murphy

• Lori McAree

• Melanie Muenchinger

• Michelle Woerner

• Tami Mayberry

• Theresa Momber

• Tina Gilliland

• Vicky Dutcher

Thanks for stopping by!!

Gina K Inspiration Hop Day 2: Dreams & Birthday Bash

So glad you’ve joined us for the 2nd day of inspiration from the Gina K May release! 
First up is a set by Tami Mayberry called Dreams.  It is a beautiful collection of frames (square, rectangle, oval) and sentiments to be placed inside along with a few smaller accent images.  I’m sure you’ll find endless ways to use this set.  I have made a card to highlight our new Just Peachy pure luxury cardstock, pairing it with one of my favorite cuttlebug embossing folders, Leafy Branches. 

Here is a close up of the coloring of the branches the little bird is perched on.  I stamped the image with London fog memento ink and used a copic marker for the blooms and put star dust stickles on them for some sparkle.  I finished off the card with some white organdy ribbon.

Here is a picture of the whole set so you can see what you get for $23.95.  The set is made of high quality rubber, die cut and already mounted on cling foam.  It also comes on a storage sheet and has an image sheet for your reference. All you have to do is put it on an acrylic block and you’re ready to stamp away! 

Next up is an adorable set by Rupa called Birthday Bash with the cutest puppy, bears, bunny, turtle and mouse just begging to celebrate a birthday with you!  I used the cute puppy on my card and colored him with copic markers.  I used the Happy Birthday cuttlebug embossing folder and Echo Park papers A Walk in the Park.  I thought it would be fun to punch various circles from coordinating cardstock and frame the corner of the focal image.  I embellished with an orange button with pink cotton thread and a smidgeon of brown stitched ribbon. 
To the right is the full set for you to see what you will get for $23.95. 
Be sure to hop around all the blogs of the designers sharing creations with us today and leave a comment for your chance to win a stamp set valued $24.95 or less!  Winners will be announced on Gina's blog – see you tomorrow for Day 3!!

• Gina K (her post will be up a little later so check back!)
• Giovana Smith
• Janice Whiting
• Jennie Harper
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Michelle Woerner
• Sharon Harnist
• Suzanne Dean
• Tami Mayberry
• Theresa Momber
• Tina Gilliland
• Vicki Dutcher
• Carolina Buchting
• Cathy Tidwell
• Deb Felts
• Donna Baker (that’s me!)

Gina K Inspiration Hop Day 1: Vogue Vases & Border Bling

Welcome to our 1st day of inspiration hops for the May release!  Hope you made it to the party last night – it’s always a blast!  If not, you can always peruse the thread to see what you missed and hopefully you will make it next time!!
First up is a set by Theresa Momber called Vogue Vases.  I just love that she has a solid vase to use with an ink pad and an outline vase you can also paper-piece with, which is what I did on my card.  I used some Echo Park Be Mine papers, which coordinates so nicely with the Bubblegum Pink, Smoky Slate and White pure luxury cardstock I used. I thought the flowers went nicely with the Victoria cuttlebug folder which is one of my favorite ones!  I sponged around the Labels 14 die with Angel Pink memento ink.  The ribbon is Light Pink Gingham.

Next up is a set by Melanie called Border Bling, which will coordinate perfectly with her Bring the Bling set!  I chose to make a clean & simple one layer card because it is for the release party challenge I am hosting, One Love.  Make a one layer card, use one image stamp, one sentiment stamp, and only one embellishment!  You can stamp your image or sentiment as many times as you wish though!  Liquid pearls, stickles, glitter pens, etc do not count as an embellishment (I used liquid pearls here), they count as an ‘accent’.  Hope you will play along!  You have until Monday, Apr. 25 at 7 pm CDT and a winner will be chosen at random and announced at STV to choose a set for free valued up to $24.95!  You don’t have to use GKD stamps, but if you do, your name gets entered twice in the drawing!!

Here is another card I made, adding a flower & circle stamp from Bring the Bling!  See how fun they are together?  I stamped my oval bling border onto a Labels 10 die and sponged around the border to show you that you don’t have to have the exact size oval in order to use this set.  I think it looks nice like this!  What do you think of my cool ribbon rose?  I actually made it with wrapping the ribbon around a length of tin foil!  Here is the tutorial for it.  I used Turquoise Sea cardstock, buttons, ribbon and some white ribbon, Aqua vivid ink.  All supplies except white ribbon can be found in the GKD store.

Now be sure to hop around ALL the blogs listed below and leave a comment on each one so you have a chance at winning some stamps from Gina K!  The winners will be announced on Gina’s blog!

• Gina K
• AJ Otto
• Carolina Buchting
• Cathy Tidwell
• Donna Baker (you’re here!)
• Emily Giovanni
• Giovana Smith
• Janice Whiting
• Jennie Harper
• Jimmi Mayo
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Michelle Woerner
• Sharon Harnist
• Theresa Momber
• Tina Gilliland
• Vicki Dutcher

Thanks for stopping by – see ya on Tuesday May 31st when our inspiration hop will continue!  Have a fun and safe holiday weekend!

April SFYTT: It’s Your Day!

Here is a card I made for the April Sketch For You to Try on Jen’s blog.  I am cutting it close to the end this month since I was getting ready for vacation a few weeks ago!   I just remembered, I promised y’all more pictures from our cruise – I will try to do that this week.  I used the new Timeless Textures stamps from the recent Gina K. release as well as Perfect Pennants for a brightly colored birthday card.  I just love the new Key Lime pure luxury accent color, see how well it goes with Sweet Mango & Turquoise Sea? I love it.  The Timeless Textures are used on the solid color panels.  All supplies used can be found in the Gina K store (except mini white brads).

I hope you have a Blessed Easter tomorrow! 

MFT sketch time!!

Hi everyone still out there reading my blog!!  I took another much needed break** from posting and I’m back to share this week’s MFT sketch!  I used my new Pure Innocence cutie Something Special Just For You.  This card is for my DMIL to give to our niece Gabby who will be turning 5 in 3 weeks!  I can hardly believe it!  We just talked to her a little bit ago, it had been too long since we had and I was missing hearing hers and her brother’s voices.  She cracked me up saying “Auntie Donna is creatable” when I told her I was making her birthday cards!   A few weeks ago my sister said that Gabby told her, “I can’t get over how talented Auntie Donna is” that really made me laugh out loud and smile!  I just love it!! 

I used my new Key ingredient subscription papers are from the Stella & Rose Gertie Collection by My Mind's Eye.

PERSONAL STUFF: **Am I the only one still reeling from the affects of the time change??  I am struggling with getting to bed/sleep at my normal time because, well it’s not my normal time anymore!  So then I am super sleepy during the day and have no energy to get stuff done in the evenings!  So, my break had to do with that.  Oh and the fact that I have been sewing more clutch purses!  Will share more soon – sewing is addicting!  I guess it’s because I have an addictive personality.  Last weekend I went to a Geocaching event with John and some others and we hosted 2 couples spending the night Fri and Sat.  They all went out Sat & left Sun and I stayed here and sewed – it was a lot of fun! 

MORE PERSONAL STUFF: Speaking of fun, it was our quarterly event at work today – only worked until 10:30 and then met at a bowling alley, had fajita lunch and bowled 3 games.  It was great – started off with a bang, a strike and it’s been at least 10 yrs since I’ve bowled.  I got another 2 frames later then I finished the game and subsequent games with a ton of gutter balls oh and one more strike!  I got tired fast but I still had a lot of fun.  Have I told you lately how much I love my job!!??

Thanks for stopping by – have a great weekend!!!

Surprise Birthday Hop for Nancy McKinney!

Today is TE’s Whimsical Wishes illustrator Nancy’s birthday and her good friend Saucy organized a little surprise birthday hop in her honor!   If you came to my blog from the talented Regina Mangum, you are on the right track!  If not, start at the beginning (Karen’s blog so you don’t miss out on all the eye candy!)

I made a card using the current TE Giving Tree Charity set called Make a Wish, in which a portion of the sale goes to the Make a Wish Foundation!  I used fellow Baker’s Dozen dt member Karen G’s Sweet Sunday Sketch 93 for my card, which I thought could showcase the fun banner in the set.  I used Cosmo Cricket Pixie-licious papers as well as some prismatic cardstock in addition to Choice Snow White.  I had fun coloring in the sentiment with copics, atyou spica glitter pens {on sale for $2.49 each!} and then layering on sparkle with star dust stickles!  I even colored my banner with aqua stickles.  I finished off my banner with a row of ruffled trim and a pixie-licious button!

Now hop on over to the beautiful & fabulously rockin’ stamper Alex Maldonado to see what she whipped up for Nancy! 

Nancy, I hope you have a fabulous birthday – I’m so happy to be working with your awesome images month after month!  They are just delightful!!

Crafty worlds collide for a birthday!

I have a passion for all crafts, in case you didn’t know!  Ever since I was little, I dabbled in all sorts of craft stuff; I used to draw & color when very young, learned to crochet when I was 9 from my Aunt Ange, loved to make latch hook rugs, do paint by numbers, took a sewing class in my 20’s, taught myself how to make jewelry about 3 years ago, learned how knit this past winter and the list goes on!!  So naturally, I like to incorporate several crafts when I can (or am inspired to) so when Melanie’s birthday rolled around this year {April}, I visited a new local fabric store and bought some pretty knit fabric so I could stamp on it and make a scarf for her. 
I used her A Year of Flowers and Pressed Flowers stamp sets and stamped with red & olive pigment inks, heat set it and sewed a hem around it.  It came together pretty quickly and she really liked it!    I also made a matching simple card, using the large circle stamp from the Spring Mix stamptv kit.  I love the elegant touch of tiny pearls on the Blossom nestability die and center of the flower. I used Rocket Red & Green Apple and white pure luxury cardstock.  Here’s a picture I took of Melanie before we were about to devour our desserts!
Last night I discovered a great crafting blog Tea Rose Home which is causing me to itch to sew again (and will once we move because I want to make some throw pillows for the living room and bedroom and cushions for the window seats), but in the meantime, I can dream about what else I can sew!   Sachiko is so crafty, and was featured in a new crafty magazine called Rhythm of the Home with a cool tube sweater scarf tutorial!  I am going to link my creation on her blog because she’s having a link party!  I can’t wait to go check it out!




Thanks for stopping by today!! 

TE Sneak Peek Day 1: Creativi-TEA and Miniature Motifs

I’m so excited about this month’s Taylored Expressions release and I’m sure you will be too!

Nancy has illustrated the prettiest tea set and miniature motif background sets that stand alone and coordinate nicely together! I have a pretty gift set to share with you that I made to give my sweet friend and design team member, Carolina for her birthday!  I bought some ultra soft ivory knit material and stamped one of the background images in the Miniature Motifs in the set on it with old olive craft ink (heat set it), then hand sewed on a little crochet trim I got in the TE store (it’s sold out right now but there are some wonderful trims you can see here).

Here is a closer view of the card I made, it’s a little more frilly and feminine than I usually make (I’m no Melissa Sauls after all) but I like how quickly it went together and how it looks! The label in the set coordinates with Spellbinders Labels 9.  I stamped one of the background images in the Miniature Motifs directly on some Basic Grey Origins paper.    I love the flower in the Creativi-TEA set, I used the paper-tole technique on the centers.  These sets will make wonderful cards & gifts for Mother’s Day, anyone who loves feminine images, tea and more!!

Available this release will be some Here’s a close up of the top of the tin so you can see the pretty scallop square I added a Missing You sentiment to along with a few tiny pearls.



Be sure to check out all the wonderful projects the Baker’s Dozen has to share with us today:
Alex Maldonado
Carolina Buchting
Charmaine Ikach
Jackie Pedro
Jami Sibley
Jeanie Witmer
Jodi Collins
Karen Giron
Karen Motz
Melissa Sauls
Sankari Wegman
Nancy McKinney (our awesome illustrator)
Taylor Van Bruggen

Hope you have a great day – be sure to stop back tomorrow for Day 2 sneak peeks!

Happy Birthday, Sister!!

It kinda bites when you are born around Christmas; I know this because my middle sister was born the day after Christmas and will be celebrating ‘42’ today!  My mom went in labor on Christmas Day – while they were eating out at a restaurant and decided she would name her daughter after Dean Martin’s daughter (who was coincidentally born on Christmas Day) – Deana, pronounced Dean – a.  I remember all the ‘combined’ gifts from family which did not seem to make up the extra value of a separate gift.  So, we always had a 3-day celebration – Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Deana’s Birthday so she would not feel jipped by us!  Deana doesn’t read my blog but maybe I will email her this post so she can see how much I care about her and love her that I dedicated a blog post to her! *wink* I hope you have a fantastic day, Deana!

So I am sharing this birthday card I made using Tech Talk in honor of Deana (although this is not the card I sent her – I can’t even remember what I sent her now, even though this would have been perfect for her).  I used Basic Grey Ambrosia papers to paper-piece elements from this set and create a desk scene.  This set is so fun to use! 

Check this out and click to start shopping!!  Talk about  a great special!!

Happy Birthday hop for Nancy!!

Happy Monday, folks!  Today’s card is one I made especially for Nancy McKinney {Cardworthy}, illustrator of Whimsical Wishes stamps for Taylored Expressions!  Several of her friends and fellow Baker’s Dozen design team members, with the help of Karen M. have organized a special hop to celebrate Nancy!! 

My card was made using For the Love of Cupcakes, which Nancy illustrated with the help of sketch inspiration by Beate for this weekend’s sketch {WSC106}, which I thought would showcase the fun cupcakes she drew.  I paper-pieced the cupcake liners with papers from the September 20th key ingredients.  On the cupcakes, I made the ‘icing’ with white opal liquid pearls.   
I hope that you will spend a few moments hopping around to feast your eyes on the wonderful inspiration the following ladies have to share with you today:

Karen Motz
Dana White
Michelle Leishman
Janet Rossi
Wendy Bond
Jodi Collins
Karen Giron
Sankari Wegman
Charmaine Ikach

I hope you have a wonderful day, Nancy and thank you for sharing your talent for illustrating with TE month after month!  I always marvel at your creations and LOVE working with them! 

Before you go - be sure to check out Taylor's blog - her and half of the Baker's Dozen are doing a Product Focus on the Binder Boxes in the TE store - they can be used for MORE than JUST storing your STAMPS!

Birthday Mom

A few weeks ago DMIL turned 60! Here is the card I made her using Melanie's Little Tees set by Gina K Designs. I thought pairing it with Basic Grey's Cupcake paper would be a lot of fun and for this card used 4 of the patterns. DMIL loved it & said she would love to have a t-shirt just like it! There are endless options for this set! I used PTI's Lemon Tart cardstock & twill ribbon as well as the Basic Grey cupcake brads.
Here's a pic of all of us (John's younger brother Steven is on the right). We went out to Johnny Fin's restaurant on Lake Travis with live music that was pretty good. We fed the ducks the whole time we were there, they were so cute to watch scramble for the food thrown to them. It was a real low key time (not a ton of fanfare you would expect for such a milestone birthday but that was about all she could handle physically but it was real nice). We had mixed berry cheesecake for dessert at home.

DMIL is a very special lady, so gentle, kind, loving - a real prayer warrior. In fact, God impressed on her to pray for me even before I was a reality to them. He told her to pray for her son's future wives; to prepare them-call them forth. I had no idea for all those years; but when I was told realized what a value that was and how much it was a true demonstration of God's love. I knew God was looking out for me but not that it spanned hundreds of miles as He held me close to His heart through her (and John because he was also praying for me). Believe it or not - I was praying for him too even before we knew one another. One of these days I may bore you (or inspire you) with our love story. Anyone wonder how we hooked up with me living in CA and him in TX? Well this blog post is about my DMIL so I will wait on that.

I will tell you that the year before John and I 'met' is the year my birth mom died of Lung Cancer. In fact it was a few weeks shy of the anniversary of her death that I made my home with John in Texas. One of the most special things my DMIL does for me is remember the anniversary of my mom's death every year (the day of she takes me to lunch, a way to not remind me of my loss but to honor my mom in treating me like a daughter should be treated and make me feel loved). I am humbled and so grateful for her thoughtfulness and endearing qualities as a mom. That is why it was not hard for me to begin calling her that. She is in no way a replacement for my birth mom, in fact Josephine (my mom) was 'Ma' to me and that she will remain. But God saw fit to be sure I was not without the blessing of a 'mom' in my life so that is what Donna (DMIL) is to me now.

Simple Happy Birthday

It's a stretch for me, but I like the simplicity 2-step or solid images lend to card-making but my desire will be for line art images 9 times out of 10. I really like Stampin' Up!'s new Wow Flowers set (which will be available to purchase beginning next Tuesday, yea!) I love that it comes with 2 greetings in the set, Thank You & Happy Birthday - sure makes the set more versatile. I used it here with 2 of the New In Colors - Pink Pirouette & Riding Hood Red - love them paired with Chocolate Chip! This is the first time I made a flower out of the scallop punch by cutting slits between the scallops. How fun! Now that I look at this card again, I could have made the bottom of it stand out more by placing a pink/red scallop border at the bottom of the front of the card or perhaps rounding the corners.

Dragons & Fairies

Here is the first card I made using my Darling Dragons by Artful Inkables. I LOVE the star sparkle in her set, I used it here to create a mystical background for my birthday dragon. Isn't he the cutest?! So fun to color...like his birthday balloons? They are highlighted with my new Copic Spica Clear glitter pen I got from Ellen Hutson's store, which is real nice, I'm sure I will be getting more colors but love the look of glitter over a colored image for sparkle. I highlighted the dragon with my Sakura Glitter Pen - love that too! See the sparkles on the centers of the stars on the background? THose are itty bitty dot sparklers by Stampendous that I got in my gooodie pail in Feb. LOVE those too! I love a lot today, huh?? Colored image with Prismas & OMS.

Here is the first card I made using my Enchanted Fairies set. I used the cloud from my Darling Dragons set for the fairy to sit on. I kept this card simple but now wish I had sponged some blue for clouds in the background. My designer paper is Basic Grey Two Scoops and I used my Rectangle nestabilities on my image & dp. Colored with Copics & highlighted with Sakura Glitter Pen. I tried photographing the dragon near the angel but it did not work. How cute does the fairy look next to the Angel, though??

Sweet Stitched Birthday

This is my first time sewing on a card, not sure what took me so long, but here it is! Well, I know...I just never think of doing it and last year in the clearance section in Hobby Lobby (love that place) found a cute sew craft machine for $3.59! Of course it's no Janome because I can only do a straight stitch but who knows? Maybe one day I will spring for one! I was inspired to sew because of Gina K's great tutorial the other day.


I love these colors! I got them from my favorite website SU Color Combos - I would have NEVER thought of putting them together but they really work! Of course I think one reason is because they are fun, sweet & cheerful just like the set I used by Gina K - How Sweet It Is (Stamps for a Cause, Adult & Juvenile Diabetes).


I used my Large Polka Dot Backgrounder by Cornish Heritage Farms and Canvas by SU! on the cardbase. Colored w/ my prismas & osm. The 'celebrate' sentiment is Love & Happiness rub-on by SU! Only 15 more days of SAB to take advantage of something free with a $50 purchase!!


Colors are: Purely Pomegranate, Ballet Blue, Chocolate Chip, Lavender Lace and Gable Green.

Hoppy 'Bright' Birthday

I just realized I hadn't ever posted the first Kangaroo card I made when I got my Just so Hoppy set! I guess I got distracted by all the interactive cards I've made tht I forgot about the simple straightforward ones I am capable of making. I took my color inspiration from my DCWV Adhesive patterned paper and used my stardust glitter pen on the balloons. Hope you like it & have a great week!

Beate's WSC34 - Cupcake For You!!

Here's my sketch from Friday, which I actually made Friday but forgot to photograph it on my cupcake stand (sorry not going to start all over). I actually stamped & colored this cupcake earlier in the week but never got a card idea for it until the weekend sketch came up. I looked at the cupcake 'bottom' and realized my cb embossing folder d'vine swirls resembled it so I went with that. Don't you just love the pearlized look of the frosting? I do...it's liquid pearls! I also used a sakura clear glaze pen for the cherry (so fun, I love glitter & shine, you'd be able to tell if you ever saw me IRL with my wardrobe).

Madison's 2nd Birthday

Here is the first card I made using Aquarello Watercolor Paper by Fabriano. It really is nice!! I love how simple this card is-DH saw it and said it was his favorite! Loves the simplicity of it & the watercoloring. I used the little girl from All in the Family and new SAB set Birthday Whimsy (sentiment) I love the lowercase font. I used the heart balloon from Just so Hippy & added Crystal stickles to it for some sparkle. Madison is an adorable redhead - very petite so I think this card will be perfect.

Hanna Sketch Challenge & CC150

I made this card for Hanna Stamps Sketch Challenge 1 on the Hanna Stamps Forum from Kristi's party on Friday night. Decided to use CC150 - Real Soft Bayou (Real Red, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou) for my colors. I used the large polka dot backgrounder by Cornish Heritage Farms on my soft sky base. I used Prismacolor Pencils & OMS to color (FUN)

And since I had leftovers from the above card, I decided to make a birthday card with my Billboardabella from Stamping Bella.

Happy Birthday eP Double Cupcake Challenge (WINNER)

Taylor posted a fun cupcake challenge - to celebrate eP's 1-year birthday! I had to play because I had not yet used my stacked cupcakes I got a few months ago from Ellen's store (which was enabled my StamperSharon's card here) and decided to use Beate's weekend sketch WSC31 so here's my double challenge! Phew - that was a lot to say!

I used my new Basic Grey Two Scoops paper & matching brads I got from All That Scraps and love that it matches my new Wild Wasabi striped grosgrain ribbon by SU! The frosting on the cupcakes is also from Ellen's store - Liquid Pearls as well as the pearls on top which I colored pink with my copic marker. The sentiment, Happy Cupcake Day is from My Favorite Things, Essential Sentiments!

What a fun card this was to make!

Edited to Add: I JUST FOUND OUT I WON THE CONTEST!! HOW STINKIN' COOL IS THAT?! Right before I opened up the thread, I said under my breath, "I hope I won" (I actually checked several times today to see the winners)

Check it out:

Thanks to all of you who stamped and uploaded some really great creations in response to the eP birthday challenges hosted by Taylor VanBruggen and Jami Sibley over the weekend.

The winner of the Taylor's Cupcake Challenge is Donna Baker(donna b).

The winner of Jami's Birthday Ensemble Challenge is Katrina Koop(Kookie).

They each won a clear acrylic pail loaded with assorted Stampendous goodies. Congratulations, ladies! Email us your mailing address. If you haven't seen them all, go over to the Gallery and view all the SWEET creations that were uploaded by fellow friends and stampin' addicts. You c

Cheers! Daisy