You’re So Sweet… Happy World Card Making Day!

Happy weekend! Today is a special day for card crafters everywhere… it’s a day totally dedicated to our craft!

I didn’t get a chance to play along last year, so I am really excited to be posting a couple of cards today in honour of World Card Making Day.

So, I told you awhile back that I’ve challenged myself to pick one stamp set off the shelf every day and ink only that one up for whatever I create that day. I pulled out Piece of Cake, which I like the theory of…

(Now *that* is an awful photo… sorry about that)

So this one took awhile to come together for me. I started with stamping the background using different elements from the set, and that part was easy. It was laying the rest out that just did not come easy!

Here is a close up of the background:

The one thing I definitely love about this set is how many elements are separate stamps, making it really easy to customize everything.

I managed 3 cards before the day was out, and if I am honest, they were tough to finish.

This one I created using last week’s colours and painting challenge from Embellish. I am too late to link it up (what’s new?), but I did create the sentiment tag using the same set:

Hard to see, but I also stamped some of the flowers lightly behind the “Celebrate”.

The next one I made using a technique from Papertrey Ink’s Make it Monday from almost 2 weeks ago… Frosted Images… I used the cake to highlight the technique:

This one I really wasn’t too happy with. I liked the cake image on the button card, but I sort of felt like it fell apart after that…

Another bad photo… again, sorry… trying to get these shot before supper hit the table; not to mention the 16 month old trying to eat them FOR supper…

I also stamped a bit of a background using the frame image again:

So, all in all, I am not entirely convinced about this set. I struggled with these cards – I think because this isn’t something that easily lends itself to my usual shabby style. For me, anyway!

Thanks for visiting my little blog today! I hope you like what you see, and I hope you can forgive some pretty bad photos…!

PS – time crunch… if you’re looking for any of these supplies, pop me an email and I’ll try to help you out!