Time for Cupcakes

A new trend in paper crafting is decorating cupcakes. Candy created this one using American Crafts' City Park papers and the Scalloped Cupcake Liner from Lifestyle Crafts.

On the opposite side, Candy used the button die and threaded the baker's twine through it.

But, cupcake liners are not just for cupcakes. Look at this 12x12 layout Candy did using papers from My Mind's Eye:

The scalloped edge is actually the cupcake liner. The flowers are made from the extra dies that come in the set.

Everything is Lush with My Mind's Eye by Candy

The new Lush collections from My Mind's Eye are in ... here are a few ideas by Candy:

Tip #1: The frames on the cards and the group that makes up the title and journaling block on the top page are actually journaling tags from this collection.

Tip #2: The flocked papers are challenging to adhere. I would recommend using large Glue Dots (Craft or Memory size) placed where there is not a lot of flock or using brads or the Tiny Attacher. The tape-type adhesives, like the ATG, had trouble staying stuck.

Picking the paper

When customers walk into Scrap Tales, they often ask for a specific themed paper -- like Christmas or Halloween or Baby Boy.

There is certainly nothing wrong with that. In fact, that is how Scrap Tales is set up -- by theme.

But, sometimes the Christmas paper doesn't match the Christmas photos. What do you do then?

There are basically two choices ... you can either work with cardstock that matches the photos or look around the store for something else that will work.

This garden page created by Candy, for example, is using Creative Imaginations paper that was technically part of their Halloween collection. Candy doesn't "do" Halloween, so she doesn't have any Halloween photos. But, since she was given this paper for a Design Team task, she found a way to make it work.

She printed out a photo as an 8x10 and attached it to a sheet of cardstock. Then, using the Fiskars Detail Craft Knife, she cut the gate open on the paper and attached it to the cardstock. When the doors are open, it looks like this:

The title is cut out of leftover photos (the smaller the flowers in the photos, the better) using QuicKutz (now Lifestyle Crafts) Garden font.

The facing page, which uses coordinating paper from Creative Imaginations, shows a few other features of her mother's garden, matted on cardstock by American Crafts.

Click on the photos for a bigger picture, or stop in the store for a closer look.