It's a cupcake kind of day

I love this cute stamp and punch set from Stampin' Up. There is a choice of cupcake cases and cupcake tops to choose from as well as a cherry and a candle to top and decorate the cupcakes. This was a quick make and I used it for my recent workshop and the cards turned out fantastic. Lovely colours and with some 3D sticker pads to raise the images from the paper just finished off the card really well. The layout was inspired by another card I had seen but was an autumnal leaf design with 3 leaves going across the card. You can take the layout and change the images to suit whatever stamps you have. Give it a try.

Flip card

My husband's birthday was approaching so I racked my brains to think of a card that was a little special but it also had to be quick as we were all getting ready to go on a family holiday. Eventually I settled on a flip card design. This card was made on a 6" x 6" card blank. I folded the front of the card back on itself to provide the concertina effect leaving the back of the card untouched. Then I ran the card through my sizzix machine using the tutorial  found on this website however I did not follow her measurements as I was using a different card size and die. Once the cut was made it was simply a task of decorating the card with paper and stamping my hot air balloon. I used the stamps and papers from stampin' up. The stamp set is called celebrate today and I also used the matching balloon framelit dies.