Spots or Dots

“Spots or Dots”—that’s the challenge this week at Just Us Girls.

It’s been awhile since I’ve joined in at JUGS, and in my continued effort to use stamps that I haven’t played with, I came upon The Stamp Market’s “Dotted Background” stamp. I had already started playing around with The Stamp Market’s “Party Pieces,” and ended up with a birthday card for Tracy’s cousin.

It’s a mini-slimline card which is becoming one of my favorite designs, and worked well with this little stamped and die cut birthday cake. The chocolate cake with blue decorative icing is sitting on a silver cake stand. I used some dimensional tape on the white frosting as well as on the die cut sentiment.

I added some glitter to the candles, and “painted” the flames with a gold paint pen. The sentiment is from Pinkfresh Studio’s “Happy Birthday Sentiments.” I love the font and the die works perfectly every time. After cutting down the dotted background, I added it to a layer of Blueberry Sky paper from Papertrey Ink which matches the blue stamped images. 

I’m also adding this to the June NBUS Challenge which already has some great cards in the gallery. Darnell, who hosts the site, is correct that it’s a great place to scroll through the gallery for design ideas.