Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #500!

Have you heard of the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge? For each challenge they post a YUMMY cupcake photo and color combo for inspiration! Everybody likes cupcakes, right?

The Cupcake Challenge has currently challenge is currently celebrating reaching its 500th Challenge!  How cool! This is also a perfect reason for a birthday themed challenge to celebrate!

We're sponsoring this challenge too so if you head over to their blog today you can see more inspiration! Don't forget to play along you have a chance to win a $25 store credit to our store at newtonsnookdesigns.com! How awesome is that?

Of course I had to play along -- here's the card I created:

If you are anything like me, I never have enough birthday cards on hand so I was excited to play along with the challenge theme of BIRTHDAY! I grabbed the one of my favorite kitty stamps from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set to create a fun birthday card. I colored the image of the kitty in the stack of cardboard boxes using copic markers. This set doesn't have a birthday hat in it so I grabbed one from the Newton Loves Cake Stamp Set to add onto the kitties head! The images were cut out using the coordinating Newton Loves Boxes Die Set and Newton Loves Cake Die Set.

For the card, I kept it simple, using our Pawprints Stencil with orange and yellow distress inks over the white card base to create a fun cat themed background pattern. Then I added a strip of yellow cardstock across the bottom and added the sentiment from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. A little bit of white bakers twine is the finishing touch! This card was so simple to make and will be great to have on hand for a birthday greeting for any cat lover! 

I hope you enjoyed this card today! 

Make sure you pop over to the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge blog to see more fun today. We have several other NND Design Team members featured as "Guest Sweeties" for this challenge and some of the regular "Sweeties" (that's what they call their Design Team -- cute, right?) are featuring Newton's Nook Designs stamps too! And don't forget to create a card with the birthday theme  and link it up over there for a chance to win our sponsored prize!