Cupcake card with Arched Wishes & Everyday Arches dies

A cupcake for a birthday …how perfect is that? Coupled with a new set of dies: arches!! Love them!! So I paired both with different background DSPs. Here’s the first version on one of the beautiful Wildflower Birthday DSP prints. I fussy cut the cupcake out and raised it using Dimensionals. The sentiment was stamped directly on the arch die cut:

And here is the inside of the card where I used the same arch die for the inside panel. The sentiment was stamped using the Everyday Details stamp set:

And here’s the same card with a different background print (from the Bright & Beautiful DSP pack). I also decided to emboss just the arch panel for this version and used a retired folder called Subtle Textile:

Thanks for stopping by…have a wonderful day!

Happy New Year 2026 Darling Donkey card

This card was made using a retired but new-to-me stamp set called Darling Donkey and I instantly knew I had to make a New Year's card with it! I had seen this on Pinterest when the stamp set was newly issued as a Sale-a-bration freebie with a $50 purchase. I loved the ingenuity of the person who first created this design, and their sense of humor!

I didn’t actually follow any particular Pinterest pin since I knew I wanted to use this particular DSP pack (Bright and Beautiful)  for its colorful and happy vibes. And my “number” dies were from the  Birthday Celebration bundle so I didn’t really need to further use the exact pin since my colors were set as were the size of the numbers for the year! And one of the Textured Notes dies were the perfect size for the focal panel.

I decided to make this card into a simple easel card so I added the sentiment as the “stopper”:

Here’s a closer look at the “stopper”:

The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set and it fit perfectly on one of the smaller die cuts also from the Textured Notes dies set. I popped it up using foam dimensionals so that it catches the card base easier.

And here’s a side view of the easel card:

I hope you like my version of the Darling Donkey New Year card. Thanks for stopping by. Wishing you a wonderful year with good health and happiness!