Challenge 53...HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY...CUPCAKE CRAFT CHALLENGE

Good morning and welcome to another Cupcake Craft Challenge and a brand new look to the challenge blog...we hope you like it! This week is special as we are celebrating our 1st birthday and we have some fab goodies for you to win...not just here on the challenge blog but most of our design team also have some fab candy to giveaway so make sure you check out all the details below so that you don’t miss out on anything…there is a blog hop involved and you won’t want to miss a thing!

Thank you to everyone who entered last weeks sketch and colour combination, we were totally bowled over by you’re your beautiful creations and the way in which you all interpreted the sketch…we had another fabulous response and the design team thoroughly enjoyed visiting your blogs to see all of your amazing creations! Don’t forget to pop back later to see who Tammy has chosen as her Top 5!

Onto this weeks brilliant challenge which has been chosen to coincide with our 1st birthday celebrations and the theme is

"SOMETHING SWEET"
There is also an optional extra to include a CUPCAKE on your creation!

We just know that you will create some amazing projects to help us celebrate our birthday and the design team have been so excited about this weeks challenge, they have been talking about it for weeks! We hope that you will be just excited as us when we show what prizes you can win, we have some very generous sponsors this week so be sure to check out their details below and we would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to our sponsors for being so generous with their prizes!

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Our professionally designed monthly collections consist of stylish cardstock and embellishments that allow you to create unique custom designs for scrapbook pages, cards and gifts. Imagine your excitement when your perfectly coordinated supplies come delivered right to your door each month.

Created with Paper are offering one lucky winner the chance to win their current 'Kit of the Month' called 'The Calypsicle Collection' worth $35.00 click on the picture to view a detailed list of what this fab kit inludes:

In addition to the above prize Created With Paper are also offering a free set of American Crafts Foam Latte Thickers Alphabet to any Cupcake Challenge bloggers who make a purchase at Created With Paper this week. Wow! What a great offer! Picture of the alphabet is shown below!

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Digital Delights are offering one lucky winner the opportunity to win a $10 gift voucher to spend in their digi store!

Digital Delights, a magical place filled with my little digi creations from all walks of life. Digi stamps are so very versatile. All images are instantly downloaded to your email upon payment, so you have no waiting!! You can get to work on your creations right away!! All images are set at a great size which means that you have no loss of detail as you resize them!! Oh Yes!! You can resize them to whatever you size you want!! You can also flip/reflect the images. These are just a couple of options!! You can check out my tips tab on my blog for many more helpful instructions!! Check back often to see what is in the works!! I hope you enjoy our digi site and have fun using our creations!!"

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JEANNETTE SU DEMONSTRATOR
Jeannette is offering one lucky winner the opportunity to win a Crazy for Cupcakes Stamp Set and 96 6x6 Assorted SU! Designer Papers!
Hi, I’m Jeannette and I love Card Making, Paper Crafting, and Stamping! I started Crafting in October 2006 and Signed up as an Independent Stampin' Up demonstrator at the beginning of the year. Since joining SU! I've started using colours and stamps that I never thought I would use. If you don't already know how fabulous the products are, here's a prize that will help you on your way.

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Paper Make-Up Stamps are offering one lucky winner the opportunity to win a Sprinkles & Cherries Stamps Set and a Lily Fairy Stamp!

Paper Makeup Stamps are deeply etched red rubber stamps that you can order the way you like it! If you're a fan of naked red rubber, then order it bare! If you like them already mounted and trimmed for you on a static cling cushion; order them on EZ Mount™. And we only use name brand EZ Mount, the best in the industry! We have numerous illustrators so there are various styles of stamps as well as lots of quotes (many available in 2 sizes!). We also carry many essentials to card making (copics, spellbinders, inks and more!)

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OK, so there you have the details of our sponsors and the prizes they are giving away…now on to the details for the design team’s blog hop…the DT have been really generous in putting together their own blog candy to give away for Cupcake’s birthday celebrations so I hope you will support them by visiting their blogs and leaving a comment for them! If you get lost during the blog hop you can always come back to the Cupcake Craft Challenge blog to find out which ones you still need to visit!

Here are the rules
Visit each DT member in the order we have shown below
Leave a comment on their blog
Come back here to enter the challenge on the Cupcake blog!
If you don’t enter the challenge on the Cupcake blog then you won’t be eligible to win their candy
We want to make this fair so that our regular supporters and followers get the best chance to win some candy

Caryn Davies
Denise Morgans
Donna Barber
Erin Bailey
Evelina Wilkberg
Ida Melby
Jeanette Eames
Kathrin Donhauser-Ruth
Lisa Mckinney
Liza Caurruthers
Paula Morfitt
Sandy Brown
Stephanie Serrano
Tammy Wark


The design team have provided some amazing inspiration using this weeks theme....if you want to find out how they made their cards then you can go directly to their individual blogs to find out all the details

Caryn Davies

Denise Morgans
Donna Barber

Erin Bailey

Evelina Wilkberg
Ida Melby

Jeanette Eames

Kathrin Donhauser-Ruth

Lisa Mckinney

Liza Carruthers

Pops

Sandy Brown

Stephanie Serrano

Tammy Wark

A Few things to remember!

Please leave a link to your blog post and not just your blog!

Make sure that 'Cupcake Crafts' are linked in your post...if you don't mention us in your posting then your link entered with Mr Linky will be removed and you will not be eligible for any prize(s) offered by our sponsors!

Please only link to new entries - it isn't fair to backlink to older posts!