Sweet Pink Saturday

It's Pink Saturday again and today I have some yummy chocolate cupcakes. Actually I haven't tasted them yet but they sure look yummy.

I'm making carrot cake for Easter dinner and I thought the kids would like cupcakes better. So this is what they are getting-- chocolate cupcakes with cherry pink frosting. Yum!!! I don't think all of them will make it to my sister's house by Sunday. Shhh - don't tell anyone how many I made.

Beverly at How Sweet the Sound hosts Pink Saturday every week. This is a very fun event. Each of us post a picture of something pink on our blog on Saturday and try to visit as many of the other blogs as possible. I'm not sure how many participate but it is in the hundreds. Big thanks to Beverly for coordinating all of it!

Sarah, I might be late to the quilting bee so serve these until I get there. I set this plate aside for you!

Blessings,

Anna's Birthday Card

I made this card for a little girl in my sister's Sunday School Class using the sketch on the Triple the Sketch Challenge. I've been thinking about this card for awhile and thinking about how to did it. When I saw this sketch, I new that I would do it this way. I water colored it again. I'm really liking the pencils but I think I could have done better on this.

Blessings to all!!!

Jen's Birthday Party, Basic Grey Challenge, and Amy R's Challenge

There's lots of fun going on today!!! First of all, Jen at Pieces of Me is having a birthday celebration and she is having a giveaway every hour. It's not to late to get in on some of the fun. For one giveaway, she asked everyone to make a Birthday card for her. Here's mine.

My camera wasn't working right (the battery is probably low) so I scanned it. The seed beads are actually pink.

This card also qualifies for Amy R's sketch challenge and the Basic Grey Challenge which is pink and grey. All of the paper except the yellow card stock is Basic Grey 2 scoops.

Thanks for dropping in!!! Now I'm off to charge the battery in my camera.

Friday Sketchers 40 & Cute Card Thursday #48

I made this card for the Friday Sketchers. When I got back to my computer I realized I didn't exactly follow the sketch. I hope it works anyway. I used some scraps from paper I bought last year. The image and sentiment are Hero Arts (I think). {Note to manufacturers of clear stamps, put your logo on the acrylic backer.} Ribbon is Daisy Hill, flowers were a special buy at Robert's so they are probably Provo Craft. The pink flower in the center was white and I dyed it using a stamp pad. The jewels were from the Hotspot items at Archivers. I also put seed beads on the frosting for sprinkles but they don't show up very well. I tried to take a close up picture but it didn't turn out very well. I used Pebbles chalk to color the cupcake and a Souffle pen to color the frosting.

It's a fun card. I love cupcakes!!!

P.S. I just realized that this card also qualifys for Cute Card Thursday. There theme is "Signs of Spring".

Valentine Boxes

My sister told me about this project that was on KSL in Utah's Studio 5 show at noon. I think everything on it is so cute. I'm going to make one of them for my friends. I wish she lived near me so I could give her one. I don't know how to embed the video like she does so I'll give you a link. Hopefully, she'll read this post and show me how. (I have tried like a dozen times to add a space after this paragraph it keeps deleting it.)

The project sheet also includes a little purse box, a pyramid box and a slide out box (match box style) just the right size for Hershey nuggets candy bars.

http://studio5.ksl.com/index.php?nid=61&sid=5463964

I Love Cupcakes

So on the Martha Stewart show the other day, she announced that she is releasing a cupcake cookbook. It is going to be full of recipes and techiques. I've decided I'm going to buy it when it comes out and make my way through the book. I will post my results (good or bad) here.

I went to the scrapbook store today and bought a set of cupcake themed acrylic stamps.

I can't remember when she said the book was coming out. I don't think it's for at least a few months.
I can't wait for my new project.