Princess Birthday

My daughter's 6th birthday is coming up on June 9th, so I am practicing some decorations. The first is the castle from Once Upon a Princess cart and the second is pinwheels from the Mother's Day 2010 cart. I made the castle at 8 1/2 inches and the pinwheel at 4 inches.

I plan on making the castle again with patterned paper and make it larger perhaps 10-11 inches. We will see. TFL

Summer In Paris

I bought the Summer in Paris cart specifically for the dress form image, I absolutely LOVE it. I couldn't wait to make something with it. I pulled the cart out today, slapped some Paper Trey Ink paper on my mat and cut, grhhh, I was soooo frustrated cutting at 5 inched the image was ripped and just plain horrible. I was soooo upset.

Not one to easily give up I decided to try using the new Bazzil paper I picked uo from HSN when it was on clearance. What a difference my images came out beautiful, crisp and just the way I imagined they should look. Still love my PTI paper, but maybe not for intricate cuts.

For this card I layered 3 different paper trey ink colors on a craft stock base. I then embossed the black layer with the D'vine cuttlebug folder and accented with VersaMark Watermark ink. I then cut the dress form image at 5 inches and used clear embossing powder on both layers, just LOVE the shine it adds. I also cut a little tag from Elegant Edges at 1.5 inches and layered on top of the same tag cut at 1.75. I then stamped with a My Pink Stamper stamp from the Simply sweet occasions set.  Thanks for looking!!

Cricut Cake

I wanted to do a practice run with my Cricut Cake for my DD's 6th birthday.I made the cake and butter-cream icing from scratch, yummo!! I also made the white fondant that covers the came. I used Duff Goldman fondant for the decorations. I think for the actual cake I am going to do 3 cakes and have them at different levels and I will practice on my piping skills.I think I might tweak my colors a bit. Other than that I am loving how easy the Cake worked!! Can't wait to start on the actual cake.

Birthday Invite

Been forever since I last posted. We moved last weekend, finally. We have been working on our new house for almost 2 years and it was fianlly time to move in. I also happened to be the week of my nursing finals. Needless to say it has been a very stressful couple weeks.

Anyhoo, my oldest daughter is turning 6 in June. I made this card using my favorite Paper Tray Ink paper, Pink by Design Cupcake stamp (my fav), My Pink Stamper stamps, and a set I bought at Michaels made by a company called Stampendous.   I had the best time making this card, loved finally getting to play with my Copic markers and I even used some glossy accents for the sprinkles. Hope you enjoy!