Dolly Design: Cup Cake Garden

Happy Sunday Morning all crafters

Back on the Blog again. My Crafty room is now finished, and it is just loooovely. Happy Mojito Green - yuhu!

Just to see the room finished and sorted have given me so many new ideas and great inspiration.

So wanna share 2 new card designs I have made over the last couple of days.

The first one is called Cup Cake Garden. My Danish Aunti got birthday soon, and I asked her, how she wanted her card this year! "Just Pink" she said...... Easy peasy! Great challenge!

Found some lovely pattern and colour coordinated paper I have had for some time. Stamped 2 big cup cakes (one for each side of the bead string). Have a look, the principle for my design is a square with a round window through which you can see the inside of the card.

I use an old compas with the knife end to cut the circles as I dont have those smart cutting dies or similar. The old stuff still works :-)

Quick step overview;

Step 1; stick some nice paper or card to the front of your card with double sided tape,

2; cut the circle out from the back of the front,

3; cut a decorative circle in a matching colour card and stick to the front.

4; Stamp your hanging motive twice, just remember not all stamps are suitable for this kind of design, as you will have to stick one of the motifs at the back of the first one with a tread or metal string between.

5; I use metal wire to make the hanging cup cake; open the card under the round window and above it, place some double sided tape. This will help you place your string with the cup cake. So I need. I took a string that was too long(easier to cut after wards). From the bottom window edge i added on some beads, my double cupcake, more beads to fit the length of the opening. Let the extra wire stick to the tape, dont worry if it is too long.

6; I had prepared a paper for the back of the front, meaning having cut the hole in advance and stuck tape on. Just ready to cover the back of the front, so you cant see the wire and the sticky tape.

7; finally, stick some pretty card, if you want, to the actual inside of the card. You can see i chose some pretty butterfly garden design, you could leave it blank if you want to. Also, i cut some pretty cup cakes out of some heavy card with sugar coating to finalise the front of the gard.