Second for Susie

When I was looking at today's featured stamper's gallery earlier today, several cards caught my eye. I couldn't stop with just one, so here's my second card for the challenge.

I based it on this summery themed card here. I really liked the layout of this one. I decided to go with a birthday theme, using the Happy Birthday Cupcake set from Kitchen Sink Stamps. I haven't pulled this set out in a while and I thought the small cupcake image surrounded by a circle of text would work perfectly in this layout. I stamped the image twice in a deep brown ink. I colored one of the cupcake images with Copic markers and cut it out to add to the complete image with a dimensional. I added some Stickles, too.

I found this fun floral paper from KI Memories that coordinated well with the Kiwi Kiss and Baja Breeze papers left over from my first card today. I trimmed off a strip of patterned paper and tied an olive ribbon around it, then attached it to the cardfront and layered a Baja Breeze strip over it. I attached the matted cupcake image over the strip.

Since there already was a sentiment with the image, I didn't need to add one along the outer edge of the round panel. I decided to add a different kind of detail instead. I used my paper piercer to make a curved line of holes in the cardfront, following the shape of the cupcake image panel. I really like how that turned out.

Materials Used:

Happy Birthday Cupcake stamp set (Kitchen Sink Stamps); Espresso Adirondack ink, Yellow and Diamond Stickles (Ranger); patterned paper (KI Memories); Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, and Pink Passion cardstock, mat pack and paper piercing tool, dimensional (Stampin' Up!); 1 3/4" circle punch (EK Success); blue circle punch (Marvy Uchida); markers (Copic Ciao); moss grosgrain ribbon (Morex); white cardstock (Georgia Pacific)