The Card Concept {Sweet Treats}

Hello there!  It has been a few months since I've gotten to make a card for the The Card Concept Challenge.  I took this term off from the Design Team because I am so busy with the house that we are building in another state. We've been traveling back and forth every two weeks or so since December but we are making some real progress this week.  Many of the things we've been waiting on have finally arrived and are getting put in place.  This week the wall color got painted. I have a picture, but it was taken in low light, so you can't see very well.  But you can see what this guy is working on for my studio!  That entire wall will be lined with Ikea Cabinets that are being built in.  I would have loved to do more, but it all comes down to money.

The cabinets themselves will sit on a base structure a bit higher than they are right now and the top will have some built in paper cubbies for my most used colors.  That will have a top that is white and then tempered glass will be covering the whole thing.  That will be my staging area for photos.  I am hoping I can give up my very rigged lighting system, but I just won't know until I start working in that room. Because my desk is so large (8 x 8), it will take up the rest of the space in this room which is why we converted the formal dining room into additional studio space. We're not formal dining folks anyway.  We don't entertain or anything so this room will actually get used.  This picture was taken on Monday so they will be a lot farther along when we get pictures later today.  When we started this house last year, I asked Jennifer McGuire if I could use the pictures of her "craft room" in her old house to show to my builder and she said I could.  So this bank of cabinets follows a similar design.

Anyhow, I saw the post yesterday with the inspiration image and I wanted to play along, so I grabbed my Stitching Garden Stamp and Die Set to mimic the big rose on the one cupcake.  Not all of my color follows the inspiration photo and I ended up with a very monochromatic palette with the exception of the roses, but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway.

The products I used are all from Papertrey Ink and will be linked below for your convenience.  For the leaves, I stamped the base layer in Stormy Sea and the detail layer in Ocean Tides. For the blooms, I stamped the base layer in Lovely Lady, the 2nd layer in Lavender Moon and the detail layer in Autumn Rose.  The card base is made from Ocean Tides Cardstock and the striped paper is one of the patterns in Pinefeather Bitty Big.  I cut the card base using the Noted A2 Vertical Scallop Die Set.  The sentiment is from Botanical Blocks stamped on the banner from Tag Sale Quilted using Versamark and heat embossed using Simon Says Stamp Antique Gold Embossing Powder.  The little gold leaves were leftovers from another project, but I love the special little touch they added.



Thanks for popping in today to see my card.  I'm not blogging as much as usual  with our upcoming move, but I hope you'll keep coming by.  We hope to close on our house May 1st so by June 1st, I should be back in the swing of things.  The supplies are linked below (Affiliate Links may be used).

I wanted to sneak back in here to post a picture of my cabinets all assembled. The top bins are for my White Cardstock, Pre-Cut Card bases in vertical and horizontal and all of the specialty papers I use - 3 types of watercolor paper, X-Press-It Blending Card.

Cuttlebug Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	Kokuyo Long Dot Runner Adhesive Refill Shop at: SSS	MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | GKD	PTI Botanical Blocks Stamp Set Shop at: PTI
PTI Ocean Tides Cardstock Shop at: PTI	PTI Perfect Match Lavender Moon Ink Shop at: PTI	PTI Perfect Match Lovely Lady Ink Shop at: PTI	PTI Perfect Match Ocean Tides Ink Shop at: PTI
PTI Perfect Match Stormy Sea Ink Shop at: PTI	PTI Pinefeather Bitty Big Shop at: PTI	PTI Stamper's Select White Cardstock Shop at: PTI	PTI Stitching Garden Dies Shop at: PTI
PTI Stitching Garden Stamp Set Shop at: PTI	PTI Tag Sale: Quilted Shop at: PTI	Ranger Multi Medium Matte Shop at: SSS	Scrapbook Adhesives Thin 3D Foam Squares Shop at: SSS
SSS Antique Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS	Teflon Bone Folder Shop at: SSS	Tonic 6 Inch Personal Trimmer Shop at: SSS	Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Shop at: SSS
Versamark Ink Shop at: SSS	Wagner Heat Tool Shop at: SSS