Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Party Time?

Here's a second entry, a little more shabby, for this week's Shabby Tea Room Birthday Bash celebration: "Party Time".  Do you think these 2 had a little too much party?


A sweet friend recently sent me several of these older Stampa Rosa House Mouse stamps dated 1997, and this is the first inking of this one for me.  I colored it with colored pencils, making the cupcake like our oldest son David used to request his birthday cakes, with strawberry  or cherry icing.  To shabby it up a bit I added a doily cut in halves, some crinkled hand-dyed seam binding and a ribbon and button.  Since the coloring was pretty pastel, I used pale pink, blue and green to frame it out. 

supplies: white, pink and green cardstock, scrap of dotted blue dp, Stampa Rosa "Birthday Cupcake", Hero Arts CL272 All Occasion Messages, Prismacolor pencils, Donna's yellow seam binding ribbon, paper doily, button, white twine

18 comments:

Barb said...

Love these pretty colors, Lin! And that image is just adorable! Yup. . .they've definitely been partying too much! :) So cute!

Debbie said...

A-dorable, Lin!!! Thanks for joining us in the Tea Room this week for our birthday bash :)

Michelle said...

Awe!! SOOOO cute!! Love those little mice!!

PapierGirl said...

Lin this card is absolutely adorable - love the darling little image! Thanks for joining us this week at TSTR! :)

Virginia L. said...

This is so sweet! I love your use of doily in this and the images are beautifully colored! Congrats on your Moxie Fab Paper-piecing win! YAY!

ivy said...

love the addition of the doily on your card! the image is so cute---but also a bit disturbing to find them in your cupcake! LOL!

Dawn T said...

Wow Lin. I like this one. That image is super cute and love the pink icing!

joy said...

Oh, this is just so darned cute, Lin! I love those old stamps - hard to come by, so hang on to them!

Love your new blog header, too!

Wanda G (stampcat) said...

Hi Lin! What a pretty pretty card! Perfect for the challenge. Also, I love your new blog header. Spring! Have a great day.

Isha Gupta said...

such a lovely card Lin...love the soft coloring too.

walchowDesign said...

Love how you colored the icing - it looks so real, Lin!

Arlene said...

So cute - love that cupcake.. YUMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Yvette said...

I have that stamp too. It's so adorable and perfect to make birthday cards with it. You did a great job: beautiful card!

stampingandstitching said...

Aww this is adorable, Lin! Such a cute and fun image and you have coloured it beautifully! Love the way you used the doily and yes I think they may have partied a little too much!

Pattie said...

What a cute image and I love the doilies! Thanks for joining us for our Birthday Bash at The Shabby Tea Room!

Suzanne C said...

THis is adorable! Reminds me of Templeton in Charlotte's web! He over-indulged at the fair. Super sweet card.

Trees said...

Lovely card, I love the yummy looking cupcake! Thanks for joining us at The Shabby Tea Room!

Robin K. said...

I definitely think those two did a little too much partying :) The pink frosting brings back memories of the cherry chip cakes my mom used to make for my birthday! Sweet card!