It just wouldn’t be Friday without cupcakes, huh!? I’ve had several requests to make every Friday cupcake day. It seems to cheer people up… and make them hungry! LOL! I would love to make a cupcake card every Friday, but I need your help! If you have cupcake images or images including cupcakes that you would be willing to share, I would really appreciate it if you could send me 1 or 2 images (just in case I mess up on the first one) stamped on Whisper White or something similar. I also like to do a lot of watercoloring and Prismas with gamsol so if you could use a permanent ink like Stazon or Basic Black that would be great! If you’d like to see more cupcake cards and you think you can help me out, send me an email (link on the right under my picture) and I’ll give you my address. I will enter all those who submit cupcake images into a drawing for a ribbon sampler in the following colors that match SU! (Cameo Coral, Pixie Pink, Pink Passion, Pretty in Pink, Garden Green, Mellow Moss, Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Lavendar Lace, Night of Navy, Black, and White). Thanks in advance for your help, and hopefully cupcake day will be a great success! LOL!

Now onto the card… I will do my best to explain, but I’m not the best teacher so if you have questions feel free to shoot me an email. I love to hear from you guys! The Certainly Celery card base is a quarter sheet of cardstock. For the Pixie Pink triangle closure, I cut out two quarter sheets of cardstock and scored 1/4″ from one edge on each piece. The 1/4″ is then folded around the back of the card on the top and bottom. I positioned the pieces as they should go (but don’t glue them down yet) and measured where I wanted the two triangles to meet. The bottom triangle is slightly shorter than the top triangle because I wanted the top to one to come down further so it could hook into the bottom triangle as a closure. Unfortunately, I didn’t measure anything as I was going along. *kicks self* Draw a little pencil line where you want to cut off each of the sheets so that they overlap where you want them to, and then trim them off. Now find the center of each cardstock piece (it should be at 2 1/8″) and make a pencil mark there on the opposite side of the score line you already made. On your cutter, line up one edge of the score line with the center pencil mark and cut. Now cut using the other edge of the score line and the center pencil mark and you should have a triangle piece with a 1/4″ to be folded and glued around the back. Repeat on the other piece of what will become your triangle closure. Stamp each piece as desired before you glue the triangles to the card base. On the picture where the card is open you can *kinda* see the little slit I made so that the top triangle slips into the bottom one (click on pic to see a larger image). I made the slit with an Xacto knife after glueing the triangles to the card base and figuring out where the triangles would overlap. After re-reading this, it sounds like this needs a tutorial with pictures. LOL! Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll do one… and I’ll even measure things next time! 🙂

The cupcake image is from Lockhart Stamp Company and my friend Joy (JoyOfStamping) was so nice to let me take a few images from her stamp! I added little hearts on top of the cupcakes… they come plain so you can top them off with whatever you want. I am drawing challenged though so I think hearts is about as good as it gets! LOL! I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol and stumps. The cupcakes are covered with stardust Stickles and the frame around the cupcakes is covered with Crystal Effects. I am convinced that these are chocolate cream-filled cupcakes on the inside of that silver wrapper, but they can be whatever you’d like them to be… chocolate cream-filled just sounds good to me today! 🙂 I mounted the image to the top triangle with dimensionals. The ribbon came from StarLitStudio. Thanks for looking!