CPS sketch and a Flower Soft border

First up, I want to share my card for Card Positioning Systems blog for this week. 

Gina K, designer Melanie Muenchinger is our sponsor.

The set I played with is designed to be used with Spellbinder Nestabilitie shapes. I did not have the shape for this particular stamp but I thought it was fun to show that you could use it anyway. I stamped it with white ink and embossed it with white embossing powder on a kraft colored paper. 

The set includes several shapes with sentiments and what is additionally cool is the shapes can be used with or without the sentiments.

And, the Flower Soft team is having a challenge this week to create a border and to accent it with Flower Soft.  I used the wonderful Sage Ultra Fine Flower Soft. 

The little flower border is cut with my Cricut Expression using a Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Art cartridge.  I just added punched out small circles of cardstock and covered the circles with the Sage Flower Soft. The sentiment is a rub-on by EAD Designs/Paper Smooches.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Birthday cake for everyone!

Talk about two things that just go together, birthdays and cake! I put those two things together in the two cards I wanted to post today, both use a brand new stamp set at Gina K stamps.

Melanie Muenchinger is the creator of this cute stamp set, Candles on Your Cake. It is very evident in this set that it contains a ton of stamps that go together so neatly. I thought this color combo and the great houndstooth patterned paper gave the card an art deco look.

I used four different stamps for the design on the front of the card, the cake is one, the candles another, the main verse another and the last line another. It was fun to put them all together and my favorite is that birthday song and you get to add the recipients name. Notice the slight sparkle to the flames on the candles. I used some Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip. It gives just the right amount of sparkle and it still lets the underneath image show through.

This card uses four stamps from the same set. Who can resist a cute cupcake? The cardstock is from the Vintage collection of Core'dinations cardstock.

Stamps used - the cupcake is one stamp, the candle another, the sprinkles another and the sentiment is the last one. The flame on the candle also has some Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip on it.

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Gotta share a couple photos!!

Guess what is just coming ripe in our yard???? YUM! Our grandkids just love these so we don't actually get very many to eat!

And, is this amazing!? A Lemon cupcake from Whodidily cupcakes in Montecito, CA.

And an amazing rose from the community garden that I love to go walk around in to take photos.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Chic BeBe Girl/Teresa Collins
Stamps – Candles on your Cake/Melanie Muenchinger/Gina K
Glitter 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Self Adhesive Pearls – Queen & Co.
Circle punch - Papershapers
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Stamp pads – Memento
Circle punch and Scallop circle punch - Marvy
Sandpaper


(I SAVED YOU SOME CAKE!) card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Vintage Collection/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Quite Contrary/My Mind’s Eye
Stamps – Candles on your Cake/Melanie Muenchinger/Gina K
Glitter 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Stamp pads – Memento
Circle punch and Scallop circle punch - Marvy
Sandpaper
3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L