Cupcakes anyone?

As soon as I saw last week's sketch over at Tuesday Morning Sketches, I knew I wanted to use the cupcakes stamp from my Verve Birthday Bash set. It also gave me a good reason to try out my new Stamp-a-ma-jig. This is a really nifty tool for aligning your stamp so that you get the stamped impression exactly where you want it. Perfect for wood-mounted stamps but also very handy for aligning clear stamps. I used it to add two more cupcakes to the right of the three cupcakes of the original stamp.

Here's a close-up of the glitter:

And here's the sketch:

I stamped the images onto Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured them using Promarkers. The cupcakes look purple in the picture but they are pink in real life (blossom, rose pink, maroon & ivory, satin, gold). When I wanted to put the card together, the white looked terribly white, so I coloured the background with my ivory marker and added a little shading under the cupcakes with my satin marker. For a festive touch I added some glitter glue for frosting and Glossy accents for the candle flames.

Materials used:

Cardstock - from stash & Neenah solar white

Papers - My Mind's Eye (So Sophie 6x6 pad)

Sentiment stamp - Paper Smooches (Sentiment sampler)

Image stamp - Verve Stamps (Birthday Bash set)

Doily - came as a surprise goodie with my order from Verve Stamps

Distress ink on all edges - Ranger's (spun sugar)

Ribbons - from stash

Fibre - from very old Avec fibre collection

Stamping ink - Mememto (Rich cocao)

Colouring medium - Promarkers

Glitter glue - Avec

Glossy accents - Ranger's

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe - Anything goes

Papertake Weekly - 81 Tie up your loose ends (bows)

Bearly Mine - (Tic tac toe: bottom row - glitter, twine, pink, doily)

Passion for Promarkers - 182 Favourite colour combo

I love Promarkers - 152 Anything goes

Alphabet Challenge - Y for Yummie

CAS-ual Fridays - 87 Make your mark (use markers)
The Ribbon Girl - Colour inspiration (pink and ivory)
Polkadoodles - Week 4 Monochrome/monochromatic