Cupcakes

Birthday Cupcakes

June 21, 2014

We invited our friend and frequent guest designer Judi Kauffman to create today’s project. As always, her card is colorful, fun, and easy. And as always, she sent detailed instructions so you can make the project your own!

I’m glad to be back, Joset. I love cupcakes – the real ones with icing as well as Elizabeth Craft Designs’ Peel-offs. They’re almost as much fun and zero calories! I can never decide between chocolate and vanilla so I included three of each on this 11” wide Birthday Cupcakes card.

Instructions:

1. Place peel-offs onto white cardstock. Color with your favorite markers (flat color, no blending needed).

2. Using black and white pens, doodle dots and short lines to add extra details and contrast.

3. Cut out the cupcakes, staying close to the outlines.

4. Cut red cardstock to 6” x 11”. Score lengthwise, fold in half to make a 3” x 11” top-fold card base.

5. Arrange the cupcakes so they “dance” across the card. Four of the cupcakes extend above the fold. Adhere so that the cupcakes vary between chocolate and vanilla, using foam dots for added dimension. Tip: Instead of alternating, start with two chocolate and one vanilla, and end with one chocolate and two vanilla cupcakes.

6. Add Happy Birthday Peel-offs in the order shown on the card. “Happy Birthday” is beneath the two cupcakes at the center of the card. Place the word “Birthday” at the far left, the word “Happy” at the far right. *Design Strategy/Tip: There is a strong visual pull toward the center of the card because the two cupcakes at the center are side by side and positioned high within the space while two others are lower and to the left and right of the words. This means that your eye will naturally gravitate toward the spot where “Happy Birthday” is positioned. The four cupcakes surrounding the words form a frame.

Options:

*I used all six cupcakes on the sheet of Peel-offs, but shorter cards (4” wide) with only one or two cupcakes would work well, too. One sheet of 12” x 12” cardstock will yield six 4” wide cards. Cut into six 4” x 6” pieces. Score each one lengthwise and fold for six 3” high x 4” wide top-fold cards.

*I chose a mix of bright colors, no two cupcakes are alike, but they are unified by the dusky pink, chocolate brown, red and yellow that repeat on several of them. Stick to a pastel palette, use school colors, or whatever you want!

*There are extras on the Peel-offs sheet (a cherry, butterfly, candles, bow, hearts and flowers) that were not used on the card front. Save them for another project or use them for the inside of the card or the envelope.

SUPPLIES:

Elizabeth Craft Designs –

0379 Cupcakes Peel-offs in Black

390 Happy Birthday Peel-offs in Black

Letraset – ProMarkers

Sakura of America –

Pigma Micron 05 in Black

Gelly Roll Medium in White

Other – Foam dots, red cardstock, fine point scissors, paper trimmer, scoring board

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Fancy Label Accordion Cupcakes Card

March 24, 2014

Hello! Helen here from sunny England! (I’m actually writing this is advance, so the chances are it will be rather grey and blustery again by the time you read this!)

I’d like to share a card with you which features the delightful Cup Cake Peel-Off Stickers, on the Accordion Fancy Label Card.

I started by sticking some Transparent Double Sided Adhesive onto white card stock, and adding the peel-off stickers, then some Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter. I then coloured in the stickers with the Copic markers pictured. Els has a great tutorial on the best way to do all of this, here.

I also wanted a glittered ‘Happy Birthday’, and achieved this by adding a strip cut from Double Sided Adhesive to some pink card stock. I added some Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter, rubbed it in with my finger, then die-cut the ‘Happy Birthday’.

Here are the die-cut elements I used for my card:

You can see that I cut four panels with the Fancy Label Accordion die, four borders for each panel with a Fancy Frame Edges die, and a middle layer for each panel (with one of the other dies in the Fancy Label Accordion set).

I lightly embossed each of these smaller layers with a different Elizabeth Craft Design Embossing Folder (which are listed at the bottom.) I also cut out the cupcakes, plus three extra little peel-off sticker candles, an extra ‘Happy Birthday’ from black card stock, and three little diamonds to go in the corner of each panel. (The diamond die also comes in the Fancy Label Accordion set.)

To give a little extra definition to each of my die-cut pieces, I inked the edges of them, with black ink on a sponge dabber.

I then adhered all the elements of my card, working on a panel at a time, and sticking the four panels together last. You can see below that I layered the pink glittered ‘Happy Birthday’ over the black one, to give a little shadow, and I also added a peel-off bow to the first panel.

I stuck the candles and cupcakes on with foam pads for extra dimension.

I thought my card would be finished then, but it looked a little plain, so I die cut some card stock flowers with the ‘Bunches of Flowers 1’ die set, and glued them over the little diamonds in each corner, along with a candy dot centre in each. I like how the little diamonds now look like leaves.