You Can Never Have Too Many Sprinkles

I finally had some time to experiment with my first Concord & 9th Turnabout Stamp Set. I started out by stamping 4 different Distress Oxide inks onto white cardstock using the Sprinkles Turnabout stamp set. The cupcake stamps included in this set were too small for the type of card I wanted to make, so I searched through my stash and found a Recollections Cupcake stamp and die set that I knew would be the perfect fit.

I wanted to create a shaker card with sprinkles, so I used some small bugle beads in coordinating colors as the shaker bits. I also made a coordinating card with some of the leftover cupcake die cuts and confetti background paper. To add a little bit of sparkle, I brushed a Wink of Stella clear glitter marker over the pink frosting and sentiment.

For the next set of cards, I wanted to go with a pastel color scheme. I used the same colors of Distress Oxide inks but this time I stamped them on kraft colored cardstock. To create the cupcakes, I used StazOn ink to stamp the cupcakes and liners onto glitter paper. I also stamped the sentiment included in this set onto the same glitter paper. For the shaker cards, I used a small sprinkle punch that I purchased many years ago to punch out the glitter sprinkles. It was difficult to punch through the thick glitter paper so I wasn't able to punch as many sprinkles as I would have liked. I mixed the glitter sprinkles with silver confetti.

I die cut so many cupcakes out of glitter paper that I just had to use them all up. Since I could not muster the strength to physically punch any more sprinkles, I wasn't able to make any more shaker cards. For most of the other backgrounds, I glued the leftover sprinkles and confetti to the cardstock. It was tedious work but well worth it in the end. I was up to my ears in glitter cupcakes and ended up making 5 different designs. They are so cute and can't wait to send them out to friends and family.

You Can Never Have Too Many Sprinkles
Supplies:

Concord & 9th Sprinkles Turnabout Stamp Set
Recollections Glitzy Cupcake Stamp and Die Set
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks - Cracked Pistachio, Picked Rasberry, Salty Ocean, and Wilted Violet
StazOn Solvent Ink in Jet Black
Spellbinders Standard Large Circle Nestabilities
My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle Dies
The Paper Company Assorted Cardstock Glitter Pack
Cardstock by Recollections™
Sprinkle Punch
Horizon Group, USA Chunky Glitter (from dollar section in Target)
Kuretake Zig Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush Marker
Acetate Sheets
Foam Tape

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