Thursday 16 July 2015

CAS Cupcake Card

As it says in the title of my blog, cupcakes are a favourite theme of mine. In fact, I think cake is my favourite food! So I'm happy to share another cupcake card with you for the new challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches
It is a colour week and we have a very delicious trio of colours for you, featuring Melon Mambo


I am also entering the challenge at Casology where the cue word is Cupcake.


I stamped the two parts of the cupcake using Create a Cupcake and added some Bermuda Bay sprinkles and a Melon Mambo coloured flower brad. I have a difficult time with bling and CAS, I love both and they don't always go together, certainly you can't overdo bling on a CAS card, but I think I've kept it to a minimum here. I used the Cupcake Builder punch and added the cupcake to the front of the card where I had ready stamped the greeting, using Early Expresso.



I quite liked the clean and simple look of this card left how it is, but I did want to use the embossing for the challenge at Cas-ual Fridays
I have used a really old embossing folder, one of the first craft things I ever bought. I cut the aperture first, before embossing.


I used foam pads to give depth to the aperture. These second photos were taken indoors, they show up the embossing better but it does give the white card a kind of blue cast.


Here is the detail of the cupcake in the centre.



9 comments:

  1. I LOVE how your aperture frames the cupcake Louise!
    Thanks for playing at Casoloy this week!

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  2. Oh MY this is SUPER sweet!!!!! Love the gems! The embossing, how perfect!!!!! Thanks so much for joining CASology this week, Yummy!!!!

    This card also applies to the Stampin' Celebration Challege too!!
    Here is the link:
    http://stampincelebrationblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/sc108-inspiration-challenge.html

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  3. I love this card! Everything's better with cupcakes... and lots of them!

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  4. Hey Louise!! I love your pretty adorable cupcake!! Your embossed top panel is cute too. Thank you so much for playing us this week at CASology.

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  5. Cute card but I really like the old (dang) embossing folder and the shape of the aperature.

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  6. What yummy cupcake cards! I love that textured cupcake embossing background! Thanks for playing along with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  7. Love the extra texture from the embossing folder - sweet cupcake!

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  8. I love this Louise! I love how the cupcake is framed in the aperture with all the embossing...yummy! :)
    Lizy xx

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  9. Very cute! Thanks for playing along with us at CAS-ual Fridays Challenge! Rebecca x

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Louise xx