Got Cake? Digi Darla Challenge Day

Hello!

It's challenge time over at Digi Darla's again, and this week's theme for Challenge #50 is "Food for Thought" which means an image which is either food or beverage related, and a sentiment.  One winner will receive 5 Digi Darla images, and any entries using a DD image get entered into a SECOND drawing for 3 images, so you could conceivably win 8, yes, eight Digi Darla images.  Very cool!

My card today is of one of my favorite subjects - cake.  Is there anyone who doesn't like cake in one form or another?  My favorite is layer cake, though I don't have a specific favorite cake or frosting.  I like them all.  Today's special is strawberry cake with chocolate frosting, topped with strawberries and slightly whipped cream.  YUM.

 
  
I colored the image, "Digi Darla's Cake Topped with Strawberries," with Copics and used the tip of a Blender Pen to add a bit of texture to the cake part.

I used several dies and punches to make the layers with the addition of a couple of pearls on the sentiment.

This is my favorite part, the bow.  I always love adding ribbon in one form or another to my projects.  This is a "messy" bow with a small crochet lace rosette on top and a small vintage button added to that, then topped off by one of my handmade stick pins.  

Thank you for joining me today, and I hope to see you over at the challenge where you can see what the rest of the lovely DT have come up with.

Happy crafting!

Supplies:

Stamps: DD Cake with Strawberries, Tag Lines (Flourishes)
Ink: printer, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper: Blushing Bride, Whisper White (SU); X-Press Blending Card; Prima Sweet Fairy
Extras: Edgelits Adorning Accents die (SU); MSPAP, Labels One and Fancy Labels One dies (SB); Copics, seam binding, crochet lace, vintage button, Scallop Oval and Large Oval punches (SU), handmade stick pin, pearls.

Challenges entered:

IBS February Blog Hop (Bows)
Tuesday Throwdown #134 - Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Pink + ??? (in this case, blue)
Delightful Challenges - Frilly (Scallops and Lace)
IIC97 - Ribbon or twine
Really Reasonable Ribbon #66 - Spring colors and ribbon 
Crafty Ribbons #39 - Button Up
Pals Paper Arts #152 - Spring Fresh Colors (rose, aqua, red)
3 Girl JAM #12 - Anything Goes w/Ribbon
Sugar Creek Hollow - Metal Mania (the stick pin)
Pile It On #7 - Clips and/or pins

Shabby Bird

Hello and good morning!


Today's card is a shabby Christmas card to play along with the challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room, "Pretty Baubles."  It's been awhile since I've made a shabby card and thoroughly enjoyed it.  Or maybe I enjoyed playing in girly, sweet, soft colors.  And glitter.  And ribbons and lace.  Whatever the reason, I had so much fun making this card.  Don't you just want to eat it up?

The challenge was to use the image below as inspiration and to include a bird.  I would LOVE to have a wreath like that!  I think I would leave it up all year.  The colors are just so delicious.

This card came together relatively quickly.  I knew I wanted to use a soft blue/turquoise with pink and white as the main contrast colors.  I embossed the white layer with the SU Fancy Fan embossing folder and sponged the top very lightly with TH Distress Ink Spun Suger using a sponge dauber.  Easy does it.  I stitched two layers of wandering straight stitch, one with pale blue, the other with pale pink embroidery threads.  I then layered two rows of pink scalloped borders, a layer of lace, then a thin velvet ribbon.

The bird was punched from pink printed paper using the SU bird punch (though it looks more coral in the photo), then brushed it lightly with Ivory Creative Inspirations paints.  Love that shimmer.  I applied glitter to the tail and wing and Gold Perfect Pearls to the beak.

The bottom tag really is a tag, I promise - it comes from the SB Antique Frame and Accents Shapeabilities set, and I stamped it with a pine branch stamp before adding the bird.  It's just a bit covered up by the bow.  

The bow isn't seam binding, it's a faux silk with a crisp hand.  I added a second little tag with the sentiment stamped in Versafine Smoky Gray.  Black just seemed too harsh.  

I inked the edges of the tag with more Spun Sugar and the edges of the blue tag with SU Marina Mist.  The stick pins are my own making, and the metallic gold thread is from my stash.

Some palest blue pearls finish this card.

Thank you for joining me today as I step out of the traditional Christmas color zone.  Sometimes you've just gotta be different.

Have a lovely day, and happy crafting!

Ingredients:

Stamps:  Christmas Classics, All That Glitters (both by Flourishes)
Ink: Versafine Smoky Gray, SU Marina Mist and Certainly Celery, TH Spun Sugar Distress Ink
Paper: SU Pool Party, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Annalee by Prima
Accessories: SB Shapeabilities Antique Frame and Accents, SU Fancy Fan ef, Dienamics Double Scallop Border, SU Edgelits Adorning Accents, SB Tailor-Made Dies (small tag); SU Bird Builder, pearls, faux silk ribbon, lace, thin velvet ribbon, gold thread, custom made stick pins, Creative Inspirations paint (Ivory) and Resplendence Angel Dust, sewing machine, dimensionals.

Challenges Entered:

The Shabby Tea Room Week #143 - Pretty Baubles
There She Goes TSG184 - Tag, You're It
Incy Wincy Designs - Non-traditional Christmas Colours
The Pink Elephant Challenge TPE 177 - Make It Girly
Anything Goes Challenge 81 - Tags
SCS WT404 - Brown Paper Packages (use favorite things - mine are ribbon, glitter and lace).
CCEE1249 - Use a favorite new die (I used the SB Antique Frame and Accents)
Crafty Ribbons Challenge 34 - Label/Tag, Big or Small
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 184 - Christmas
Fussy and Fancy Challenge 77 - I Love Christmas
Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 136 - Christmas Card, No Red or Green
My Sheri Crafts Challenge 99 - 'Tis the Season
Pile It On #49 - Pile On the Embellishments
3 Girl JAM Challenge #8 - Christmas Inspiration
Frosted Designs 12 Days of Christmas - First Day (Bird)

MOJO Monday - sketch 270