HEY FRIENDS! I’m back today with a project featuring the new Confection Collection release by Colorado Craft Company featuring birthday and related baking images by Kris Lauren. I did some tricky (but fun) merging of two stamp sets – Piece of Cake and Eat More Cake. When I saw these squirrels, I knew that I had to create a cake assembly line! Included below are the details for the blog hop and giveaways so be sure you stick around to the end of the post!
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Note that a limited number of release bundles are available — see supply list below.
In other news — don’t forget that I’m having a crafty destash sale. Check out the details! Two boxes are still available.
I don’t merge and mask images very often because it requires more patience than I generally possess, but I could see this card in my mind and masking was the only way to make it work. First, I stamped the center squirrel using Hero Arts Intense Black ink. I masked the center squirrel and stamped the cake and the squirrel on the left. Next, I masked off the area for the grass and blended it with Simon Says Stamp Positively Saturated Ink in Sprout. I used the MFT Stamps cloud stencil with Positively Saturated Ink in Tidepool to create the clouds. Then, I stamped the sentiment using Versafine and colored all the images with Copics (see list below). The squirrel in the foreground was much easier since I could use the Piece of Cake coordinating dies. Finally, I assembled all the layers as shown.
Giveaways
Colorado Craft Company (3C) is doing two giveaways! You can enter to win as many times as you wish. Entries will end on July 2nd at Midnight (ET). Winners will be announced on July 3rd on the 3C Blog.
Giveaway 1: 3C will be giving away one clear stamp set per designer to a lucky winner drawn from all the comments left on our social media hangouts. Leave a comment, follow and like! Winners are chosen randomly.
Giveaway 2: 3C will also give away be giving away the entire release to one randomly chosen winner that has placed an order using your favorite designer’s affiliate links (HERE’S MINE!). When you visit their blogs you can then hit their links to the 3C shop to be entered.
Blog Hop
BLOGS
Adrienne Kennedy
Amy Tsuruta
Amy Young
Daniel West
Donna Hitz
Erin Thompson
Kassi Hulet
Kelly Taylor
Koren Wiskman
Jennifer Kotas
Nancy Sheads (That’s me!)
Sandy Allnock
Instagram
Jennifer Gross
Joe Sysavath
Noga Shefer
Traci Jenkins
That’s all for today!
Supplies
COPIC: RV52, RV55, RV63 (red violet); Y32, Y35, Y38 (yellows); YG03, YG17 (yellow green); E50, E51, E53, E55 (brown) R20, W1, W3, W5 (grays)
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What an adorable card and that sentiment is too funny!!
Great card!! Love all the squirrels and the sentiment. Thanks for sharing your tips.
Great card, I love the sentiment. Thanks for sharing your card.
The end results of your added effort with the 3 squirrels paid off! The scene now reflects the sentiments so well! Great copic coloring too.
Love the group of squirrels stealing the cake.
What a fun card, love the multiple squirrels.
OMG Nancy … you had me laughing at this one! And, what’s not to like? I love your idea of multiples. Very clever and ever so yummy looking. Great job. 🙂
I have to admit I giggled making it 😂
Oh my…this is adorable! I love the group marching with their slices of cake! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!
What a great card and the sentiment is too funny
I love it. More squirrels, more squirrels!!
Love the “party atmosphere”! Great card!
It’s absolutely a party now!
Such a cute card.
Love the sentiment; I agree whole heartedly!!
Ha. Ha. Looks like my backyard (minus the yuper yummy looking cakes). That cracks me up… So true.
Your coloring is amazing!!! I love the cake! and colors!
Such a cute card! The sentiment is perfect – every gathering should have cake in my opinion. (No one enjoys a meeting!). Love the colors!
Adorable with all the squirrels and cake to go with this sentiment.
This card is really outside of the box. Very creative. I love it?
Such a cute card! Love the colors, so bright and happy.
So beautiful! Those colors are fantastic!
Squirrel party! Cute! This is a great release~
Hahaha, this reminds me of ants invading a picnic and walking off with the goods. Love it!
Great color combination and coloring! Love your fun troupe of squirrels and the awesome cake! Such a fun card!
Cute idea using multiple squirrels on your card! What a cute scene and beautiful coloring! Love it!
I can really imagine squirrels being just like this with all that cake! So adorable.
Love, love the squirrel !
Love this little army of squirrels….the masking was so worth it!!
That’s a great sentiment and you’ve illustrated it so well with your scurry of squirrels – definitely worth the effort of all the masking!
Fantastic and adorable. Love it.
What enchanting card from a fantastic CCC release! Adorable critters, a quirky cake… it’s pure fun. Thanks for sharing!
That sentiment is perfection! Love your card, so cute!
What a super fun design for your sweet card!! Love this release! Thanks for the great inspiration! 🙂
Super cute card! I really love this sweet release!
Love this set and this card very cute!
Delightful card…the multiple squirrels are a fun design. tfs
I love how you used this, such a fun card!
We just need more squirrels at our house that can bake. This is adorable. I really really love the sentiment.
This festive card is so bright and happy, thank you for the inspiration.
What a fun card! I agree I usually don’t have the patience to mask but so glad you did; you created a great scene.
Love the card….how fun is this new KL set?
Love the creativity!
This is a really fun card! Such an awesome sentiment!
thank you for color card list
Great quote! That just sells the card
So cute and I love your masking technique!
OMG I chuckled at all the mice heading off with the cake like ants!!!
Great idea for creating a fun scene!