Retro Sparkly Cupcakes

Hiya!

This week's ColourQ challenge is a bright and funky one...

I had LOTS of fun playing with this one - I decided to create some colourful cupcakes...

When I saw the Retro Sketches layout this week I knew I wanted to use it for this challenge - I love the circle shape coming from the side and I immediately thought of using framelits to create the circle frames. The cupcakes are from Another Great Year, stamped on Naturals White with Stazon then watercoloured with ink and an aqua painter. I then cut them out with my paper snips and stamped over the cases with different stamps and the coordinating ink. The final touch was adding some Dazzling Details to the icing!

Here's the recipe:
Stamps: Another Great Year, Yippee Skippee
Ink: Melon Mambo, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Versamark
Paper: Quatrefancy dsp, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Naturals White, Whisper White
Accessories: Rhinestones, Dazzling Details, White embossing powder
Tools: Circle Framelits, banner die from Thinlits card collection

Make sure you check out what the rest of the Royal Court have created to inspire you this week!

Thanks for stopping by...

x Amy x

Another Great Birthday...

Hiya!

It's time for another fab ColourQ challenge and this week we've got a really versatile combo to play with...

I was determined not to use flowers again (lol) as I seem to always gravitate towards those kind of images. I wanted to create a guy's birthday card and so pulled out a few different stamp sets and dies and ended up with this...

I wanted to try a fun background technique I've seen around recently where you sponge the ink onto a portion of the stamp before stamping - I used the Dictionary background stamp and Tempting Turquoise ink then stamped over the top with Gorgeous Grunge and Encore gold ink. The film strip frame was die-cut with Choc Chip card the the sentiment (stamped on Naturals White with Choc Chip ink) was layered inside. I added some stars stamped with Pool Party (from Perfect Pennants) as well as a smaller one from one of the Thinlit die collections. The banner at the top was cut from Gold foil card and layered with a Tempting Turquoise die-cut arrow (again from a Thinlits collection) and a Neutrals button.

Here's the recipe:
Stamps: Dictionary, Another Great Year, Perfect Pennants, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Pool Party, Chocolate Chip, Gold Encore
Paper:  Tempting Turquoise, Pool Party, Chocolate Chip, Gold foil, Whisper White, Naturals Ivory
Accessories: Neutrals button, gold sequins
Tools: Banners framelits, On Film Framelits, Thinlits card collections

Make sure you check out the rest of the design team's creations this week - I'm sure you'll be inspired!

Thanks for stopping by...

x Amy x

Colour Q Cupcake

Hiya!

This week's combo at the ColourQ is sooo pretty:

There are so many things you could do with this combo (check out the rest of the design team for more ideas!) but I chose to go with a birthday theme using a new stamp set in my collection - Another Great Year...

Pretty clean and simple for me, really but I just had to let that fab sentiment take centre stage! I embossed it onto Bermuda Bay Top Note die-cut shape with silver EP, and again onto Whisper White, embossing with silver again. I then cut out the banners from the white image and coloured in the letters with a Tangerine Tango marker and added some faint shading (very pale Tangerine Tango... looks close to Peach Parfait I thought!) with an aquabrush. I then layered the banners over the Bermuda Bay piece with dimensionals on the ends and glue in the centre to get a multi-layered look.

The cupcake is from Create a Cupcake, stamped with a combination of Tangerine Tango, Bermuda Bay and Pool Party inks (the flower is 2nd generation Tangerine Tango, which looks like Peach Parfait). I cut out the cupcake with the matching cupcake punch, cut out the flower by hand and added a rhinestone to the centre. The final touch was the embossed stitching borders on the white card base, using one of the Needlepoint Border embossing folders.

Here's the recipe:
Stamps: Another Great Year, Create a Cupcake
Ink: Versamark, Tangerine Tango, Pool Party, Bermuda Bay
Paper: Bermuda Bay, Whisper White
Accessories: Rhinestones, silver embossing powder
Tools: Cupcake builder bunch, Needlepoint Border embossing folder

Make sure you check out the rest of the Royal Court's gorgeous creations this week!

Thanks for stopping by...

x Amy x