Senior Moment Again

Thank you so much to everyone who joined in with our 3rd Birthday Challenge last week. It was fantastic to see so many of you coming to join the party :-)

All those cupcakes have left us with a SWEET TOOTH ,,,, so that is our theme for this week !!

make your cards/creations using cupcakes, chocolates, sweets etc  :-)

This week the Design Team are showcasing Faber-Castell products. If you have any of theie products we would love to see them in your projects this week but its not necessary to join in :-)
 

As usual Heidi will be giving one lucky entrant a $50 voucher to her FANTASTIC Simon Says Stamp Superstore !!

AND

Faber-Castel will also be giving a lucky entrant a lovely Mixed Media Sampler set and a 4 pack of Gelato's !! :-)

So back to my card, I had another senior moment and I remembered the word Sweet for the challenge and totally forgot the Tooth. Lucky for me I had used repositional glue on the white mat of the image and I managed to take the old image off and replace it with this Belles'n'Whistles Cupcake image.  

I made the background using Hero Arts Flourish Background and the two blues from this Gelatos pack.

I can't believe how easy it is to use the Gelatos, once I had stamped and embossed with white embossing powder and I roughly coloured round the edges with the light blue and simply grabbed a wet wipe and wiped the colour from the outside in.

Then I just use less of the dark blue on the outside and using the same wet wipe blended the colours. It would have taken ages to used the blending tool and distress inks. 

I would advice not to use the soggy wet wipes at the bottom because it did start to break down the paper but I've only used my cheapest white card stock which is really thin.

I used the Martha Stewart Cherish and deep edge Lattice punch to make the card. 

Although Simon doesn't stock Polychromos they are by Faber Castell and that is what I use mostly to colour my images. I have Prismacolors but I'm so frustrated with them breaking and I use them only if a colour matches the paper better. Also I find the Polychromos can be sharpen to a decent point to get into small places to colour.

This is my original card using Sarah Kay Sophie's Wishes, I was going for Sweet not Sweet Tooth. I was going to try and talk myself out of it by saying it was inspired by Glacier Mints but I thought that was pushing my luck.

She has come off the card in once piece and I plan to make another card with her.

I had even made another card using the Green out the Gelatos pack but that had nothing to do with Sweet Tooths either. I had used the blue so I wanted to have a go using the green this time I use watercolour paper. You have to remember that a little goes a long way especially with the darker colours. Kicking myself now cos I just ordered from Simon and forgot to get some more colours.

Gosh sorry for the exceptionally long post.