Cupcake Challenge Celebrates 400!

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? This week we are helping the Cupcake "Sweeties" celebrate their 400th Challenge! That's a LOT of Cupcakes & Cute cards too! 

The Challenge is, of course, a Birthday Challenge: 

We're sponsoring this challenge so If you head over to their blog and play along you have a chance to win a $25 store credit to our store at newtonsnookdesigns.com! How awesome is that?

Of couse, I wanted to play along too! Here's what I created:

Of course, I HAD to use our Newton Loves Cake Stamp set! It just seemed so perfect for this! I had so much fun coloring this image of Newton with the giant stacked cake! I used inktense watercolor pencils and a water brush. Then I trimmed out the image using the coordinating Newton Loves Cake Die Set. Since the image is fairly large and detailed I kept the card simple, using a dark blue base and white layer over that. I added some washi tape in teal and lime and a scalloped edge cut out with our Sky Borders Die Set. Then I added on the kitty image with some foam adhesive to give it a bit of dimension. I stamped the "Happy CAKE day" sentiment next to the kitty! This sentiment cracks me up! So cute! And to finish it off I added a bit of blue and white bakers twine! Simple and fun! 

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 a bunch of the regular "Sweeties" (that's what they call their Design Team -- cute, right?) are featuring Newton's Nook Designs stamps too!