Punches + glitter or EP = a perfect combination!

Hi! It’s time for more Glitter!

Today’s post is from guest designer Sandy Meier (her name may sound familiar because she is a former instructor at the SNS Shoppe).

Sandy says:

Don’t you just love punches?  I do, and couldn’t wait to get my hands on this punch last year when Margaret bought it to coordinate with our wonderful Cup Cake Sets.  Punches + glitter or EP = a perfect combination!

SNS has sold out of the punch, but you can see it here: Cupcake Chain Large Border Punch #54-50023. I just love the border! 

Cute, isn’t it?  Since I have a number of neices and nephews, I decided to design a card where I could make several and keep onhand.  Here’s what I came up with:

I started by punching out the border in white cardstock, traced the bottom of the cutout along the front edge of the card and cut out.  Sponge a color of ink onto the cupcake wrapper and glue to the card.  Take some dimensional glue #539 and then sprinkle on your desired outcome.  I used Sparkling Snow Glitter G1003 on the light pink card.  Since it is semi-transparent, some of the cardstock color shows thru.  On the dark blue card, I used Bridal Glitter G1029 which is opaque so the cs color doesn’t come thru.  On the purple card, I used the Sparkling Snow, but added multi-colored holeless beads (they are really tiny) to make it look like sprinkles on the icing.  Since I made 7 cards, I really played around with different topping looks and I even did one that looked like chocolate frosting by adding Chocolate Sparkle EP127 embossing powder onto the glue (NO, you do not heat it.  Use it just like it was a glitter).  Sorry, but I already mailed that one out without taking a picture.

The words were from a piece of laser cut paper I bought at the local big box store.

I just cut out the words I wanted, coated with Versafine ink and embossed with different embossing powders. Run it thru the Xyron machine and you have instant sticker words!  On the purple card, I used Dragon Fruit EP410 to emboss the words.  It has a kind of speckled appearance which went so nicely with the cupcake topping. LOL

The Inside of the cards continues the cupcake theme with stamped cupcakes and more glitzy “frosting” on top.  Each card was given different papers inside.

Think the younger grandchildren will like them?  I hope so.  Try making one…..its not very hard.

Have a great day today,

Sandy (Cheesy) Meier

Tagged as: Dimensional Glue, Embossing Powder, Glitter, Punches