Christmas, Cupcakes, and Flowers

Here's this week's sketch for the Merry Monday #22 Christmas card challenge.

I used some crumb cake, ivory card stock, and a scrap of dsp from Imaginisce for this one, adding 2 felt snowflakes and a snowflake brad. The sentiment was done with stickers and the horizontal border was done with a CB snowflake embossing folder.

 Here's the {PIN}spirational challenge #9 photo for this week's challenge found here. 

I added another birthday card to my stash, complete with cupcakes :) I used a Sizzix powdered sugar ef for the cupcake base, and a Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirl ef for the frosting, and a SU! square lattice ef for the squares, then added some red gemstones to the tops just for fun. The sentiment is from SNSS and the ribbon is from Pizzazz Aplenty, done up into a bow with the Bow-easy.

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I'm entering this card into 2 challenges. The Shopping our Stash challenge #53 is to add May Flowers (anything floral related) to our cards. I'm also entering this into the Sentimental Sundays challenge #104 which is "A Pocket Full of Posies" or in other words, use flowers, flowers.......lots of flowers on your card plus a sentiment. I embossed some flowers from the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set on yellow cardstock with black ep, hand cut them and popped them up on foam tape. I embossed the background with a TH Sizzix damask ef and punched the edge with a SU fancy scalloped border punch. The black pearls, yellow pearls, and gingham ribbon are all from Pizzazz Aplenty and the sentiment is from SU!

Thanks for hanging with me for this looooong post - I hope you all had a relaxing Memorial Day weekend and I wish you a wonderful week ahead.

Carol

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