Sunday 5 September 2010

Out of my comfort zone


Today's new Creative Inspirations challenge has taken me right out of my comfort zone - I hardly ever make any cards that are not square or at least rectangular but the challenge chosen by our lovely Dawn, who is stepping down from the DT, is - Anything but square or rectangle!

I thought about this until I almost ran out of time but finally came up with a cupcake shape to base the card on. I used Distress Inks to colour and stamp on the cupcake case and used coloured card edged with Distress Ink for the icing. The little mouse is a digi stamp which I bought & printed out before my lovely husband accidently deleted all my digi stamps so I'm afraid I don't have any details on where it came from (if anyone can help, I'd be delighted to add the credit to my post). The image was coloured with Promarkers, the sentiment is Stampin Up.

Our sponsor this week is Fantastic Ribbons who are giving away a huge bag of assorted buttons to our lucky challenge winner.

I am also entering my card for the following challenges:
Polka Doodles - Shaped Card
Dare U 2 Digi - Shaped Card
Bee Crafty - Anything goes
Stamp Something - Something Cute
Paper Romance - Furry Friends

17 comments:

Dorcas said...

Ooooh I bet he was in the dog house for a while!! lol I love this card, it came out so nice.

brenda said...

Hi Jenni

What a fab cup cake and that little mouse image on the side added a real fun element.

Thank you for joining us at Polkadoodles this week and good luck.

B x

jaine drake said...

Maybe you should step out of what you think to be your comfort zone more often Jenni, it's brilliant. I love cupcakes and yours is yummy.

Jane said...

Very original, fab card, love the cupcake! :0)

Jane x

Angelwood said...

Oh what a fun card! Perfect! I love that image! Thanks for joining us at Paper Romance. hugs, Angela

SYLVIA-ANNE said...

A really fun card and something a little bit different, which is always nice to see. Love the cute little mouse - looks like he's just eaten a load of cupcake!! Thanks for joining us at DU2DS this week.
Hugs, Sylvia x

cheryl said...

oh this is just great hun really love what you made this week hugs cheryl xxxx

Lori said...

I LOVE cupcakes Jenni! Thanks for sharing it with us at Paper Romance.
Love and hugs ~
Lori

Michelle H. said...

This is so adorable!!
Really love the design and all the colors!!

Vintage Milly said...

Hi Jenni, your card is stunning, nothing like a bit of a challenge to get us going eh? I love your bag, gosh you are so multi-talented, so glad to be working with you in Creative Inspirations, hope to talk to you loads more,
Em.x

Cor* said...

Great way to step outside the box girl! Love it! Perfect NON-square! And what is this about digi's being deleted!!! EEK!!! Hope you had them saved elsewhere or at the very least printed 100 of each!! lol

Annika said...

What a lovely card! So cute and fun and your colouring is terrific!
Thanks for playing at Stamp Something, hope to see you back next week!
Hugs
Annika

Tip Top said...

Ah - I generally always go for cupcakes or wellies as a shaped card and yours looks so yummy!! Thanks for entering the Polkadoodle Challenge - hope you can join us again next week!

Claire Phillips said...

Fab shaped card - thanks for playing along at Polkadoodles! Great cupcake Jenni - such a cute mouse! Cheers Claire x

Jenny said...

Such a cute card & a great shaped creation! LOVE the little pin! Thanks for sharing your project with us over at Polka Doodles.

Fliss said...

Just fabulous shaped card Jenni, looks really yummy and love the cute little mouse.
Thanks for joining in with this week's Polka Doodles challenge.
x

BondGirl said...

aww I love the little mouse. Thanks for joining in the polkadoodles challenge