Summer Stone's Cupcake Card

Summer Stone One of the Artisan Award Winners created this card for our swap. I love this card due to the fact that it uses the punch that is nearest and dearest to my heart... the cupcake punch.

I love the color combo and layering.

2011 Artisan Award swap

Ok, Here it is as promised. This is the swap I made for the other nine Artisan Award winners, 2 concept artists, Amy Schwartz (The VP of sales) and Shelli Gardner ( The CEO and Co-founder of Stampin' Up!) Yeah, no sweat right?!? At first when we started talking about doing this swap we were going to swap cards, however some of use feel we excel at 3-D projects. When they gave the option of a card OR 3-D I knew i would do a mini version of my birthday countdown I entered in the AA contest.

I used Galvanized flashing that I got from the roofing section at the home improvement store. I have no idea what it is really intended for, but it came in a size I wanted AND the crop-a-dial punches the holes for the ribbon like it is butter!!

It is a ten day countdown. The nice thing about this verses making the board magnetic with paint is that you can store the cupcakes on the back and put them on front as you countdown.
Thanks for stopping by. Check out my blog tomorrow, I am showing off a Scrapbook page layout that I created for an organized swap at Convention!

See you tomorrow,

xoxoxo-Heather

2011 Artisan Award blog hop Day 9

Day 9!?! WOW! We are almost done! You should be coming From Jenn Pucard's Blog. Sorry about the posts being out of order. We went out of town for a wedding and apparently I am NOT tech savvy!

We are now on to my first 3-D project. This is the perfect project for today because it is MY birthday. "Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me...."

O.K. now that I have that out of my system, on with my project.

I used magnetic paint to cover a picture I had hanging on my wall for WAY too long. Do not use Magnetic spray paint, it takes way to much and holds almost nothing, Go to any home improvement store and buy an entire quart of the stuff your apply with a brush for what you would pay for a can of spray paint at a craft store. Then I painted over that with regular paint. I matched the paint to Pear Pizzazz.

After I created my 30 cupcakes I put them on Stampin' Up!s Magnetic paper. They hold amazingly well to the board!
I have picked out a couple of my favs from the batch.

This is the one I am most proud of.....I LOVE the little bite. I used the scallop circle from the Bitty punch pack to take that bite. I also did the same with an Early Espresso cupcake topper and placed it behind the Pear pizzazz one so It looks like chocolate cake under the frosting.
My basket weave.....
My Son's absolute favorite..... the cherry topped one! I just punched out a bunch of cherries with the cupcake punch from Real Red cardstock. I used an Early Espresso Stampin' Write Marker to color the stems and the covered them with Crystal Effects.
finally to hold the cupcake magnets while you countdown, I decorated this envelope.

Thanks for stopping by today! Summer Stone is waiting with another great project!!!