{Cupcake Inspirations}

Sunday, July 23, 2017

CIC415--Cupcake Inspirations

We are sponsored this week by Cupcake Inspirations.

Cupcake Inspirations is generously providing a $5 gift certificate to any one of our 2017 sponsors.

Thank you for sponsoring the challenge!

Each challenge, we provide a cupcake to inspire you to create a card or other craft project following our suggested theme or colors. Here is this week's cupcake (linked to original source):

Mother Day Cupcake Idea

Now for our inspiration from the Sweeties:

Debbie

Kim

Wendy

We would love to have you play along this week! Please be sure to check out our rules in the "Challenge Rules" tab on the top to play along.

Happy Crafting!

Debbie

An InLinkz Link-up

Introducing New Sweetie--Charlotte

Hello! I'm Charlotte a.k.a Lady Joyful. I'm a Brit living in Finland with my husband and our three cats. During the day I work as a nanny for two little boys, and when I'm not working my time is filled with blogging, photography, and, of course, card making! I started making cards at the beginning of last year and quickly became addicted. I still consider myself to be a newbie and feel that my style is still developing, but I lean towards CAS. I'm very excited to be joining the Cupcake Inspirations Design Team, and hope that I will be able to inspire some of you along the way!"

CIC414--Winner

Thanks to everyone who joined us this past week!

Special thanks to our sponsor Gerda Steiner Designs for the challenge!

This week's lucky winner is

20. Artekatie

Please contact us at cupcake.inspirations@gmail.com to claim your prize within 10 days.
Thank you for your support, and we hope you will join us for this week's challenge!

Here are this week's Sweet Six:

Danijela's Pick:

Margo S.

EK's Pick:

Debbie's Pick:

Ishani's Pick:

Saskia's Pick:

Sandy's Pick:

14. Tenia Nelson

Please help yourself to the Sweet Six Badge above if you would like!

Happy Crafting!

Debbie

Sunday, July 16, 2017

Introducing New Sweetie--Christine

We are so excited to introduce one of our new Sweeties, Christine!

Christine will be joining us in August on Team B.

You can find her amazing work on her website Sweet Pea Cards

Hello my name is Christine Garner. I live in North Carolina with my husband Eric and 2 wonderful children. We also have 4 guinea pigs named Buttons. Little One, Cookie, and Ashes. I have been paper crafting for several years now. I like designing cards and planner spreads. I think of this as my therapy for stress and other things that go on. I mostly color my images with Prismacolor Pencils. I do use Tim Holtz Distress Markers and Inks to make my projects also. I look forward to inspiring you and see your wonderful projects.

CIC 413 Winners

Thanks to everyone who joined us this past week!

Special thanks to our sponsor STAMPlorations the challenge

This week's lucky winner is

9. Birgit

Please contact us at cupcake.inspirations@gmail.com within 10 days to claim your prize.
Thank you for your support, and we hope you will join us for this week's challenge!

Here are this week's Sweet Pick:

Kim's Pick:

13. Laurel S

Debbie's Pick

7. Jen Mitchell

EK's Pick:

9. Birgit

10. Ink, Paper, Scissors

8. Christy Stanford

Wendy's Pick:

5. Paper Whims

Please help yourself to the Sweet Six Badge above if you would like!

Happy Crafting!

Debbie

CIC414 Gerda Steiner Designs

We are sponsored this week by Gerda Steiner Designs.

Gerda Steiner Designs is generously providing three digi images
to our randomly chosen winner.

Thank you for sponsoring the challenge!

Now for our inspiration from the Sweeties:

Danijela

Eva

Ishani

Sandy

Saskia

We would love to have you play along this week! Please be sure to check out our rules in the "Challenge Rules" tab on the top to play along.
Happy Crafting!

The Sweeties Team

An InLinkz Link-up

Sunday, July 9, 2017

Introducing New Sweetie--Ishani

We are so excited to introduce one of our new Sweeties, Ishani!

Ishani will be joining Team A next week.

You can find her amazing work on her website Quillish.

I am Ishani, from India. Since childhood I have loved getting my hands smeared with glue and colours. But, the student life and then the work life didn't leave much time to pursue a hobby. I started quilling around two years back as a stress buster and started making cards by incorporating quilled elements. With the internet full of ideas and inspiration, I ventured into using stamps and colouring with different supplies to make cards. I love to learn and experiment new techniques. From a hobby, card making has become a passion, which is also yoga for me. The way I was inspired by other's work, I hope my work inspires a few too.

CIC413 STAMPlorations

We are sponsored this week by

STAMPlorations is generously providing a $15 gift certificate to our randomly chosen winner.

Thank you for sponsoring the challenge!

This week we have a guest sweetie, Tanja, from STAMPlorations.

Now for our inspiration from the Sweeties:

Carol

Coming soon.

Debbie

Kim

Wendy

We would love to have you play along this week! Please be sure to check out our rules in the "Challenge Rules" tab on the top to play along.

Happy Crafting!

Debbie

An InLinkz Link-up

CIC412 Winner

Thanks to everyone who joined us this past week!

Special thanks to our sponsor Sparkle N Sprinkle for the challenge.

This week's lucky winner is

30. CraftyHairLady

Please contact us at cupcake.inspirations@gmail.com within 10 days to claim your prize.
Thank you for your support, and we hope you will join us for this week's challenge!

Here are this week's Sweet Picks:

EK's Pick:

#24 Sherry G.

#4 Beverly

Sandy's and Danijela's Pick:

18. : ATC

Debbie's Picks:

17. Stamps-N-Lingers

14. *Vicki*

31. TheGrandStampede

Saskia's Pick:

11. Barbara Bruder

Please help yourself to the Sweet Seven Badge above if you would like!

Happy Crafting!

Debbie

Sunday, July 2, 2017

CIC412-Sparkle N Sprinkle

Hello Sweeties...Welcome back to Cupcake Inspiration Challenge! Hope you didn't miss us too much during the break.

Grab a bit of cake and a cup of coffee because we have all kinds of news to share with you before we get to this week's challenge!

As we start this new semester we are excited to let you know that CIC is getting a bit of a face lift this semester. Isn't that exciting? Last January our Head Bakers Nina and Jen stepped down and long time Design Sweetie Debbie assumed the rigorous task of Head Baker. We are excited to announce that this semester that EK has stepped up as Head Decorator and will be bringing you all kinds of wonderful cupcakes to feast your eyes on.

We also sad to say that we losing some of our wonderful Sweeties to new adventures. Many of our Sweeties have been long time designers and we are very sad to see them depart.
However, on a more exciting note, over the coming weeks we will be introducing several new Sweeties to our Family! To continue to bring you new challenges each week, we are still working with two separate design teams (the even and odd teams), each as equally talented.

And without Further ado, this week's Challenge!

We are sponsored this week by Sparkle N Sprinkle.

Sparkle N Sprinkle is generously providing a $15 gift certificate to our randomly chosen winner.

Thank you for sponsoring the challenge!

Each challenge, we provide a cupcake to inspire you to create a card or other craft project following our suggested theme or colors. Here in the States, it is time for the Fourth of July, so we thought a FIREWORKS theme might be fun for this week's cupcake (linked to original source):