Celebrate Simplicity!

This card was submitted to these challenge blogs:

Anything Goes: #79 - Anything Goes

4 Crafty Chicks: #114 - A Day To Remember
C.R.A.F.T.: #179 - Birthday
Divas By Design: #54 - Feeling Festive
Penny's Paper Crafty: #100 - Birthday
Twisted Tuesday: #30 - Anything Goes

Tuesday Alchemy Challenge #32: Color Recipe - Golden Brown, Mustard & Navy

A new challenge starts today at Tuesday Alchemy.

It's a color recipe, so you can mix it up with color.

Golden Brown, Mustard & Navy - Enjoy creating with this threesome!

We have two sponsors this week, which is always fantastic as it gives your more chances to win!

 Robyn's Fetish - 5 Digital Stamps

~ AND ~

Scrapper's Delights - 3 Digital Images

For this creation, I kept it CAS and I used a new flower tutorial that I found while perusing blogs. I didn't like my finished flower (as I really did need to ink the ends), so I changed it up. You can find the tutorial on Doing Life - A Blog By Desire Fourie. Thank you, Desire!

This card was submitted to these challenge blogs.

4 Crafty Chicks: #107 - Colors
Inspire Me Fridays: #76 - Anything Goes
Make It Monday: #107 - Anything Goes
Shopping Your Stash: #69 - Emboss It!

{PIN}spirational Challenge #13: Inspiration Photo - Butterfly Cupcakes

A new Tuesday means a new challenge at {PIN}spirational Challenges. This week, we are inspired by cupcakes covered in a creamy mint frosting & topped with pretzel butterflies. Sweets always taste better when they look so beautiful, right?

How does this photo inspire you? Are you taken by the colors? The cupcakes or their unique embellishments? We would love to see what you come up! Create something new & share it with us at {PIN}spirational Challenges.

By participating, you have a chance to win a prize from this week's sponsor, Melonheadz. Their digital graphics are very cute & have that illustrated look for lots of fun!

Ok, so, yeah . . . I loved this picture & I was inspired by it rather quickly. It's always nice when that happens! I quickly put together this creation. It's CAS, but oh, so lovely :)

Instead of making cupcakes, I decided to create an ice cream cone as I'd already done the cupcakes on a past {PIN}spirational challenge. If you are like me, you enjoy a triple decker cone. Who wants just one scoop, anyway?

The ice cream & the cone was made using foam that I covered with glitter embossed cardstock. It's shiny & sparkly, although, you may not be able to tell from the photo. The butterflies are die cuts. I gently bent them in the middle to give more dimension to them.

I decided to keep it completely CAS, so the entire focus is on that yummy dessert.

Recommendation: Chocolate Peanut Butter, Organic So Delicious (Turtle Mountain.)

{ Fun Facts }

The U.S.A. enjoys an average of 48 pints of ice cream per person a year. That's more than any other country! (I'm not quite sure if this is something to be proud of.)

July is National Ice Cream Month in the U.S.A. It was proclaimed as such in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan.

What is the most ice cream cones prepared in a minute? Nineteen!