Fudgie the Whale

CIC137

Are you old enough to remember Fudgey the Whale?  This cupcake cake reminded me of Fudgie and the Tom Carvel commercials.  For those of you not old enough to know what I'm talking about, Tom Carvel started the chain of ice cream parlors and popularized the ice cream cake.  His first cake was Fudgey, and that mold got used for several other cakes by changing the decorations on top and this turkey just looks like a cake Carvel would make and have multiple uses for the mold.

Onto the challenge...this is the photo for Cupcake Inspirations Challenge CIC137.  Our sponsor this week is JLJ Designs.  By the way, JLJ Designs is owned by one of our own sweeties,  Jennifer, and she's offering a $10 gift certificate for use in her store and $10 can go a long way.   For my project I used the Thanksgiving Digital Scrapbooking kit.  What a great value!   There are 15 digital papers and 30 elements and as you can see they're not just for scrapbooking.  I used just two of the the papers and one of the elements to give you an idea of how you can use them before you have the photos to scrap.  I've started with place cards, which no one in my family will ever pay attention to but maybe your folks are better behaved.   If you make the place tag large enough later on it can be used for the "totin" bag.  Whenever I host Thanksgiving dinner everyone gets sent home with a bag of leftovers so they too can enjoy a turkey sandwich.  Then there's the little bag of doggie cookie treats, there's always room for pets at our celebrations and they get a bag too.  This would be perfect for a grandchild too, of course you'd put real cookies in it.   If you've got kiddies running around, you can enlist their help cutting out the turkeys or other decorative elements you use.  The kids love to help with arts and crafts projects. 

Here's the deets:
everything except the adhesvies is from the JLJ Designs Thanksgiving digital scrapbooking kit  -

Here's the challenges:
Cupcake Inspirations CIC137 - photo
Paper Cutz #117 - Let's Talk Turkey
Catch the Bug - Give Thanks/Thanksgiving
Play Date Cafe PDCC108 - Maroon, Copper and Tumeric
Fussy and Fancy #50 - Make a gift/Anything but a card

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again and that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday spent with your family and friends. 

Please join us at Cupcake Inspirations for this week's challenge.  You can find the rest of the design teams creations, the rules and the linky thingy by clicking here.

Purple, yeah!

CIC120

Purple, yum, I love purple.  If you love purple too, then this week's Cupcake Inspirations challenge CIC121 was made for you.  This fun and utterly adorable dragon  topped cake is the inspiration and our sponsor is JLJ Designs offering a $10 gift card to the store, with which can get you plenty of goodies.  If you don't have a lot of space for your crafting supplies check out the digi paper, you can keep a vast selection on file and just print it out as you need it.  For my card I used the "Ballerina Angie" digi image and the "Dots Digital Paper".  

can you see the ballerina charm, click on the photo to enlarge

Here's the deets:
stamp - JLJ Designs "Ballerina Angie"
Ink - hp printer
paper - JLJ Designs "Dots Digital Paper Pack"; Stampin' Up "Pacific Point cs
miscellaneous - copics; mini brads; ribbon; baker's twine; charm; Creative Memories rounded corner and scalloped rounded corner punches; stickles; sewing machine

don't forget the inside

Here's the challenges:
Cupcake Inspirations CIC120 - photo
Papertake Weekly #58- sketch
Top Tip Tuesday #44 - Make it Girly
Crazy CCH77 - ribbons
Stampin' Bee #121 - use ribbon
Cardmadfairy #13- Oh So Girly




Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.  I also hope that you'll play along with us at Cupcake Inspirations and make a card inspired by the photo.  You know you'll have fun if you do, so do it.