Clean and Simple Inspired

This weekend I had a family function to attend that consisted of several birthdays and a going away celebration.  I spent most of Saturday making cards to give to the special guests.

This card was made for my niece who was celebrating her 23rd birthday.   I really like the way this card turned out.  It’s simple and, in my humble opinion, it’s pretty.  She liked it, too.

 

I embossed the rose cardstock on the top and bottom with two different embossing folders.  I also used my sponger to lightly sponge some rose Tim Holtz distressed ink over the top of the embossed words on the bottom portion of the card.

 

 

I added some ribbon to cover the seam between the embossing on the top and the bottom.  I colored the cupcake with my copics (R81, R83, E35, E37) and used dimensionals to pop it up.  I used Recollections Snow White embossing powder to emboss the word birthday on a rectangular piece of brown cardstock and cut triangles out of the ends to make a flag.  I curved the flag with a pencil to give it some dimension and adhered it to the card.

Supplies:

• Inkadinkado Cupcake Stamps
• Cupcake Ribbon from Michaels
• Cuttlebug Folders (Happy Birthday Words … not sure the name of the other one but if you know, please tell me so I can credit it.
• Michael’s Recollections Solid Cardstock – brown and rose.

This card is based on the following sketch found at the Clean & Simple Stamping blog…

I’m entering this card into the following challenges:

Clean & Simple – Sketch Challenge (see above sketch)

Card Makin’ Mamas – Clean & Simple, no bells, no whistles

Daring Cardmakers – Embossability challenge

Joyful Stamper – Anything Goes

Simply Create Too – Anything Goes, digi only

Totally Papercrafts – Embossing Time

Copic Marker Europe – Anything Goes with copics

Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes

Simply Create – Anything Goes Linky Party