Inky Impressions - Birthday Cupcake Giftcard holder

It's Wednesday and that means it's time for another Inky Impressions challenge. The challenge this week is to use pastels or bright colors on your card - "think Spring." Spring always reminds me of my daughter's birthday. She was born in April and now that she's getting older, she prefers giftcards instead of actual gifts (even though I do still buy gifts). So this week I made a cupcake giftcard holder. I first saw this over at Rach's blog and she linked to the Stamp Goddess' tutorial for the instructions.



I used my favorite Angelica stamp, Angelica's Daydream, to decorate the cupcake. She's so versatile - I can think of a million ways to use this stamp. I glued a heart backdrop to her and included the birthday sentiment and wrote "pull me." When you pull the heart, the gift card is revealed. Cute idea, isn't it? Check out the tutorial linked above - she makes it look so easy. I then attached a toothpick to the back of the heart and stuck it in the cupcake with a bit of glue.

Closeup of Angelica:



Closeup of giftcard:



Here is a picture of the copics I used:



I used ribbon for the "whipped cream" and prima flowers for decorating the cupcake. With spellbinder dies, I also cut flowers out of hand made pink paper that has flecks of dried flowers in it by Anna Griffin. I painted a wooden bead and glittered it up with Martha Stewart glitter.

I will be entering this project at the following challenges:

The Corrosive Challenge: sewing (the ribbon was stitched to look like frosting)
Pile It On Challenge: flowers
Saturday Spotlight Challenge: use a household item (I used a toothpick to hold Angelica to the cupcake)
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge: folds (see the folds in the cupcake base)
Paper Sundaes Challenge: glittery spring (glitter on cherry)
The Pink Elephant - ribbon (frosting is made of ribbon)

Hope you like it. Have a great day!