Card Week, Part 6 - Guest Designer

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Card Sketch #10

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"Happy Birthday Cupcake" card by Mary Bezdicek
Supplies used - Paper and stickers: Echo Park (Summer Days); Embroidery floss: We R Memory Keepers; Stickles: Ranger (Diamond Dust); Bazzill: Cardstock; Ink: Clear Snap; Other: Cricket Design Studio and Lacy Labels Cartridge

Variations

• For this card I eliminated the square card base and used the scallop circle for the base. To accomplish this, I used my Design Studio to weld two scallop circles together. I then layered all of the pieces of my cut out on top of the base. If any of you would like the cut file I made for this contact me at my blog.

• I then stitched around the inner edge of the circle and left enough floss to tie a bow.

• The cupcake wrapper I ran my cardstock thru my corrugater to give the wavy effect that you have with a real cupcake wrapper. I then inked to the top of the ridges to give a little dimension.

• Instead of circles, I used clouds from a boarder that came with the paper, layer two of them and added Stickles for the icing.

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"Cupcake" card by Mary Bezdicek
Supplies used - Paper: Echo Park (Summer Days); Ribbon: American Crafts; Bazzill: Cardstock; Punches: Marvy Scallop and Circle Punches; Glitter: Doodlebug; Ink: Clear Snap; Other: Sizzix Texture Boutique and Cuttlebug Polka dots embossing folder.

Variations

• For the base I ran the purple Echo Park paper thru my Texture Boutique using the Cuttlebug Polka dots embossing folder. Once the paper was embossed, I sanded it down for contrast.

• I shrunk down the scallop circle and made it by punching a circle smaller than the scallop punch. Then I centered the punched out circle in the scallop punch and punched the scallop.

• The cupcake wrapper I ran my cardstock thru my corrugater to give the wavy effect that you have with a real cupcake wrapper. I then inked to the top of the ridges to give a little dimension.

• I used a small circle punch to create the layers of frosting.

• For the sprinkles, I made dots with a glue pen and coated it with Doodlebug pink glitter.
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