Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #242 And I'm A Sweetie!

WOW!  It's 2014!  

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!

It's a new year and sometimes with a new year comes new things.

Today is exactly that for me --- something new!

I am officially a SWEETIE!

What's a SWEETIE? 

Well, it means 

I'm a "sweet" 

Design Team Member

over at 

Cupcake Inspirations! 

YEA!  

My third design team position!

And today is my debut 

along with four other 

new Design Team Members

as well as

the first 

Cupcake Challenge of 2014!

So, here is the inspiration photo

for this week's challenge, 

which is a color challenge

to use the colors ---

Gold, Cream and Kraft.

And what is a cupcake challenge

without an awesome sponsor

and cool prize

to ring in the new year

in style!

Our sponsor this week 

is none other than

Stamp and Create!

The prize for one "sweet"winner

is a cool

Spellbinders Layer Creator Basic 

by Cindy Echtinaw Designs.

Below is a picture of one of the basic sets:

Basic Set A for A2 Cards

There are several different basic sets to choose from, depending upon card size.

And for a shot of inspiration, 

here is my card

for this week's challenge:

SPIES:

STAMPS: Hearts (Recollections); Sentiment - from Flopsy Valentine set (My Favorite Things).

PAPER: Buttercream and kraft cardstock; Gold glitter cardstock; Patterned paper - (SEI).

INK: Versamark and gold emboss powder.

EXTRAS: Tree emboss folder (Cuttlebug); heart punch (Fiskars); cream satin ribbon; gold dots.

I have to admit that my very first challenge as a DT at Cupcakes was a tad bit challenging!  I discovered my supply of gold anything except glitter and emboss powder is very low.  So I decided to gold emboss heart stamps for a heart tree or love tree.  I stamped the hearts on cream cardstock and embossed with gold powder.  I love how they came out!  I did have a tiny bit of gold glitter paper so I punched out some tiny gold hearts to add.  With all the embossing I decided to go simple and just stamp the sentiment right on the cardbase and emboss some more.

Now--

 drop in at 

Cupcake Inspirations 

and check out 

ALL the Design Team Members projects 

and 

leave them some blog luv!  

We DTs love comments too!  

Then, create, upload, and share your project 

with us this week 

at Cupcake Inspirations
and maybe you will be our lucky winner!

  

We love to have you play along!

New Cupcake Blessings!