Sweet birthday treats

I have a serious sweet tooth, so when I saw that the August theme for the Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero challenge was "Sugar Sugar," I figured I should enter. The challenge is to make something sweet, so I decided to go with birthday cupcakes.

I used the Color Layering Cupcake stamps and dies (Hero Arts) to create the cupcakes. I wanted to have lemon frosting on my cupcakes, so I used two shades of yellow ink. The cupcake is chocolate, of course, and I used two shades of teal ink for the cupcake liner. I also stamped a few chocolate sprinkles on my cupcakes.

For the card base I used Bermuda Bay card stock and a Chocolate Chip frame made with Stitched Frame Stacklets 1 dies (Taylored Expressions). Inside the frame I stamped streamers, stars, and confetti images from the Cheeky Birthday stamp set (Hero Arts). I adhered the cupcakes in the lower left part of the card -- the front cupcake is popped up with foam tape -- and added a sentiment strip in the upper right corner. I finished the card with a few yellow sequins.

While I had out the Color Layering Cupcake stamp set, I decided to make two more cards. (Note: The rest of the cards in this post are not challenge entries.)

I stayed with the same kind of cupcake, but I switched the color of cupcake liner to purple. I cut the Birthday Message Cover Plate (Hero Arts) out of Lavender Lace card stock. For the first card (left), I adhered the die-cut layer to a Lavender Lace card base for a subtle, textured look. I adhered the cupcake just above the middle of the card and added a die-cut Gorgeous Grape "celebrate" (My Favorite Things) below the cupcake. Again I finished the card with yellow sequins.

For the second card, I used the letters from the die-cut Birthday Message panel and glued them to a Gorgeous Grape card base. I attached the cupcake toward the left side of the card using foam tape and added a small sentiment strip (Tiny Words Birthday, Simon Says Stamp) to the right of the cupcake. I chose sparkling clear sequins for a little bit of sparkle.

Since I'm sharing cards with sweet birthday treats, here is one last card:

This card came together pretty quickly. A few weeks ago I pulled out the Cake stamp set (Ellen Hutson) to make a birthday card, and in the package I found three images that I'd previously colored and die cut. Score! I took out those pieces and used foam tape to attach them to white stitched circles. While I was deciding on a card base, I found this one in my paper files, already stamped the scattered dots along the fold. I thought it looked like confetti falling, so I went with it. I arranged the images on the card base, added a stamped sentiment, and finished with some clear sequins.

I hope you have a sweet day. Thanks for stopping by!