Eileen Hull

Three dimensional art... with heart

Triple Play Blog Hop #3: Beauty Bloom Cupcake

Welcome to the third edition of the Sizzix Triple Play Blog Hop! And Happy Birthday to my friend Tiffany! Here’s a little cupcake for you along with wishes for a wonderful year…

This week we are working with Brenda Pinnick’s extremely versatile Beauty Bloom die. Many thoughts went through my mind for ways to use it. But I wound up using it as a cupcake topper. I need to get this die.

You will need:
Sizzix Originals Die – Flower, Beauty Bloom
Sizzix ScoreBoards XL Die – Cupcake Holder, Ruffle
Big Shot
1 yard of ribbon
2 1/2″ STYROFOAM ball
straight pins
U-pin
Plaid Folk Art paint
brush
Sakura permanent marker
16 gauge wire
stem of millinery flowers
birthday stamp, ink and paper

Instructions:

  1. Die-cut and assemble cupcake die, cutting off one section to accomodate Styrofoam ball.
  2. Starting in the center, wrap ribbon around ball, twisting it as you go. Hold in place by inserting straight pins and cover while wrapping.
  3. Outline edges of petals with black marker. Paint in desired colors.
  4. Punch a hole in the middle of the petals, layer and insert small millinery flower stem in center.
  5. Anchor flower to top of cupcake with U-pin.
  6. Stamp birthday message on paper, trim to tag shape and punch hole at the top.
  7. Shape wire into a spiral by wrapping around a vase or glass. Coil the end of the wire.
  8. Add stamped image to wire and stick in top of cupcake.
Don’t forget to hop around to see all of the cool projects from the other designers on this hop. They are so clever! Apparently lots of people envisioned duck feet from the petals… not sure how I missed that!

Please join us next week- we designers never rest, even on Thanksgiving! Happy Turkey Day to all…

Comments

  12. Brenda Pinnick says

    So “sweet”!!!
    I love your cupcake die and the beauty bloom is perfect for the topper! Thanks for helping me show off my die, I love your project and now need to go make some cupcakes because I cannot look at this a shake the craving…
    hugs…B

  14. Subriagirl says

    Hey, my birthday is in January so I can wait to collect this little jewel..LOL Beautiful Eileen! Makes you want to create an event just to be able to use this!
    Veronica

  29. Karisa says

    Looks good enough to eat :)Thanks for linking up with us–I hope to see you back for the next blog hop in January. I also wanted to let you know that we featured all of the blog hop projects in a special newsletter mailing that went out to our 850,000 subscribers!

    Karisa
    Editor, FaveCrafts.com