Well it was the House IT Desk (aka my brother) to the rescue. He got me a new card reader and I’m back in business. I decided to celebrate by finally entering another Pootles’ Colour Challenge; recently I’ve been leaving it too late in the week because I know that there’s more time and then suddenly I’ve missed the deadline! Also I wanted to make a card using the cupcake cutouts framelits dies to show why you need them if you don’t already have them. So I banned myself from using the stamp set and just used the dies. Sam’s colours for this week were rich razzleberry, sweet sugarplum, blushing bride and crumb cake. I usually forget about crumb cake so this was a great challenge for me.

I first cut out a number of the squiggles using the three pinks and decided that they looked very celebratory and should be bursting out joyfully. So then it was a matter of finding the right sentiment that wouldn’t take up too much space so that the squiggles could shine. I found my greeting in the Cottage Greetings set – a really happy one and stamped it in rich razzleberry on crumb cake. I cut it and the rich razzleberry mat using the layering squares framelits dies and then glued on my squiggles ensuring that they continued off the crumb cake cardbase and came together close enough so that my square would cover the ends. To continue the feeling of celebration, I added some enamel shapes in sweet sugarplum and rich razzleberry. The square is popped up on dimensionals so that the ends of the squiggles don’t create a lumpy look. I’ve now got lots of little pieces of cardstock that came out from the loops of the squiggles – I’m contemplating a shaker card with them! The cupcake cutouts framelits dies are a must have in my opinion – very versatile.

See you tomorrow,

Liz