Cupcake Tag

Today, I have a tag to share with you. I used a luggage tag (from WHSmiths) as the base, inking around all of the edges. I attached a strip of paper from the 'Hopscotch' pad by BasicGrey across the middle and stamped a sentiment from the 'Party Critters' set by Penny Black, below. I cut the cupcake from more of the 'Hopscotch' papers using dies from the 'Cupcakes' set by Marianne Designs, embossing the brown one using my Cuttlebug 'D'Vine Swirls' folder, and adding an adhesive pearl to the centre of the flower. To attach the tag to a gift, I threaded some chocolate coloured seam binding ribbon through the hole.

Challenges for this tag:

• Charisma Cardz - No Cards Allowed
• Crafts & Me - Swirls
• Cute Card Thursday - Chocolate
• Moving Along with the Times - Have Some Cake

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Lime, Blue & Pink

It's Tracie's turn to set the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge this week...and she has chosen a colour combo of:

'Lime, Blue & Pink

I've used it to make...surprise, surprise...a Christmas card! The image is 'Presents for Two' by Lili of the Valley, coloured with watercolour pencils. The papers are all from a Heidi Grace pad (sorry it doesn't have a name on it), and I distressed all of the edges before adding some faux stitching. You may notice that I've used a couple of new bits'n'pieces on this card...had a little spend of a Secret Crafter gift voucher I got for my birthday...yes I know that was months ago...but it's taken me ages to decide what to get! lol Anyway, as always, Wendy got my goodies to me quickly, and I just had to use them right away! I used one of my new 'Lacey Circles' Nesties behind the image, and cut lots of snowflakes with my new Marianne Designs Creatables Snowflakes. The other snowflakes were cut using my trusty Cuttlebug die. The sentiment stamp is by Cuddly Buddly, the spotty ribbon (just seen) is from Poppicrafts, and I used my EK Success 'Scalloped Diamonds' border punch on the green paper.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

• Crafty Calendar - Sketch & Optional Extra of 'Christmas'
• Crafty Creations - A Beary Project
• Little Red Wagon - Use a Die Cut
• Scrapbook Sisters - Snowflakes
• Stampavie & More - Christmas
• The Stampman - Christmas with Three Colours

For more inspiration, please check out the fabulous creations by my lovely Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge DT buddies.

ABC Christmas Challenge - T is for...

It's time for another ABC Christmas Challenge...Jayne is the host this time,and the theme couldn't be easier...

'T is for Tree'

Optional extra of buttons

We are sponsored for this challenge by the lovely Regina of The Cutting Cafe'.

Regina is kindly offering our winner any 3 sets from

The Cutting Cafe'

Some of the design team are working with products from The Cutting Cafe'...and I chose a cute little pillow box template...which I printed directly on to the reverse of some BasicGrey 'Eskimo Kisses' papers. There's a little tree shaped aperture in the box, which I cut out using my craft knife (saving the tree shape to use later)...there were two templates in the set, one with the tree on the vertical, and the other on the horizontal...so I made one of each! Before I glued fixed the boxes together, I attached a piece of acetate over the aperture...to help keep the contents in place. I made a couple of matching tags using the tree shaped offcuts, and tags cut using a Sizzix die, then tied them around the boxed using garden twine. You're probably thinking...'where are the buttons?'...well, I did use some...I found some teeny tiny 'star' shaped buttons in my stash...and if you look really closely (if you click on the photo it should enlarge it), you'll find them on top of the trees on the tags.

Oh...and if you're wondering what's in the boxes...I couldn't find any sweets to fill them with for the photo, so I used galss nuggets! lol

I'm also going to enter these boxes into the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge...my top tip is to save all your scraps and offcuts...I used mine to decorate the matching tags.

For more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies, please visit the ABC Christmas Challenge.