Sketch and Cupcakes for the Monkey

HI Everyone.  Happy Saturday.  Hope you are all have a great weekend so far.

I was honored to be chosen as a guest designer across at alacardmonkey this week after this card was chosen as a winner.

The team have a fabulous challenge this week and I really enjoyed playing along. 

I didn't actually have a cupcake stamp – so surfed the net and found a fabulous digi image that was just perfect.  Using a cupcake also gave me a great excuse to use some more of the Le Pouf and add some glitter on top:-)

Here's my take on the challenge:

I printed the cupcake out on card stock and then colored it and adorned it with the Le Pouf, left it to dry and then heated it with my heat gun.  That gives it that fabulous puffy appearance – just like frosting.  I then added some Crystal Effects and sprinkled some glitter on top of the "frosting".  Here's a closer look:

Of course, I HAD to add a little Crystal Effects on the cherry, too!  The base of the card is layered with some of my new favorite card stock from Amuse.  I really do love the look of this venetian pattern and the color is the perfect color of hot Italian coffee – what better thing to go with a cupcake:-)

We hope that you will join us across at alacardmonkey this week.  I can't wait to see what all of you could do with this fun challenge.

On a personal note:

This week has been crazy.  The house is chaos.  Boxes everywhere.  10 years of paper work that needs shredding.  Cupboards opened, emptied and cleaned.  Bags of stuff to be tossed all over the garage.   It's CRAZY.  The cats are a lttle discombobulated by all of this and even Bailey, who is normally very calm and collected, is really not sure what this is all about.   We have guys coming to clean furniture this week.  We'd much rather clean the couches on our old flooring than on the new!  We have had electricians in, plumbers in, a handyman in and this week the builder is coming to replace a tiny little piece of siding that is peeling.   We know for sure that our house is in better condition when we hand it over, than it was when it was handed to us!

We were at the house again today planning out the patio spaces, the driveway and the walkway with the builder.  The painters are still in the house and there are cupboard doors and drawers all over drying.  All of the cupboards have been stained and they are covered up – as are the floors and every other surface!   Lou and I are debating not going to see the inside again until the day we do the walkthrough.  Because so much is covered and is still not complete, we think it will be fabulous to see it all together when it is finished.  We still haven't seen any of the countertops, backsplash tile, fireplace tile, stained doors, our front door – none of that stuff.  Let's see if we can hold out 🙂

We were pleased to see that our little chickadees are still nesting in the tree in front of our deck.  We got our chairs out this afternoon and had a take away lunch on the deck and enjoyed the sunshine and peace and quiet.  Needless to say, we weren't looking forward to coming home to the mess that is our current house.

Oh… yeah… and the least said about Lou's speeding fine the better!  He got it on the way back from the house.  He was doing 72mph – and accelerating  – in what he discovered was a 55mph zone!  I don't know what it is about him when he's driving around the metro area….. as my regular blog readers will remember what happened at our anniversary dinner!!!!

Tomorrow its more packing, more sorting, more cleaning and doing stuff around the garden.  We need to wash the deck and lay down mulch and put some annuals in the beds – all to make the house look extra pretty!

I hope you all have a wonderful Saturday night and that you will come back and visit with me tomorrow when I reveal my card for the Paper Players challenge this week.

As always, thank you for your visit.  Warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a lift tonight.

Hugs
Jaydee

Card recipe:

Card stock:  Early Espresso, More Mustard, Whisper White.  (Stampin' Up!) Venetian patterned card stock (Amuse).  Stamps: – sentiment – So Happy For You (Stampin' Up!).  Tools/Accessories:  Le Pouf (Amuse).  Dazzling Diamonds glitter (SU).  Scalloped Border Punch (SU)