Creative Cucina

One of the new sets, Crazy for Cupcakes from SU, I’ve been dying to use. I’ve got quite a few birthdays coming up in October so I’m getting a head start on my cards now. This is a great set to use markers, watecolor crayons, or pencils. I did try watercoloring with the brush on watercolor paper but it ran a little into each cupcake, maybe because the images are so small? Anyway, these are the samples that were good enough to make the blog.

Left: Stamps: Crazy for Cupcakes; Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Sweet Always DSP, Pumpkin Pie, Watercolor paper; Ink: Black Stazon, Markers: Regal Rose, Creamy Caramel, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red; Accessories: Regal Rose 1/4″ grosgrain, Scallop Edge Punch

 

  

Left: Same supplies as above except regal rose 5/8″ grosgrain, whisper white cardstock, and pretty in pink marker. Cherries are popped with a tiny Rain Dot, but you could also use Crystal Effects to achieve the same look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Left: I was going for a more minimalist look here. I played around with putting a piece of pink cardstock behind the big circle but I think this way looks better. This is another image from Crazy for Cupcakes. For the largest circle I actually traced a spool of ribbon and cut it out myself. The white circle is the pink Marvy circle punch. The flame to the candle is actually cut out and popped up on a small glue dot because it was cut off when I punched out the circle. I’m finally using my buttons lately. Now that I started I can’t seem to stop. Oh and I used Dazzling Diamonds on the cupcake’s sprinkles.

OK I know I posted Christmas cards last week and now I’m posting Fall cards. What can I say? I’m a little backwards. The following stamp set, Season of Friendship, is available in the Holiday Mini Catalog, which runs until November. The matching double sided paper, Autumn Vines is really nice too. Actually, all of the DSP this time around is awesome. I had a hard time choosing which ones to buy!

 

 

Autumn Vines DSP colors include Really Rust, More Mustard, Sage Shadow, and Chocolate Chip. Season of Friendship includes the tree stamp, leaves, flower, snowflake, and bird.

As a continuation of yesterday, I’m posting more pics of cards I made with Eastern Blooms. I have a gallery also at splitcoaststampers.com which you can view here if you’d like. These are really simple cards, good for card classes because it took me literally 5 minutes to make this card. I even made a second one because it was so quick!

 Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Sincere Salutations; Cardstock: Kiwi Kiss, Black, White; Ink: Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze, Basic Black.

 

 

 

 

 

Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Upsy Daisy (sentiment); Cardstock: Barely Banana, Basic Black, White; Ink: Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze, Basic Black.