Mum's Cupcake Card!

The first week in August, I started to make notes and write down ideas of how I wanted my mum's birthday card to look.  I knew I wanted to make the card slightly different to what I have normally done in the past.

The picture below is how I wanted the card to look.

I also knew I wanted to put some sort of cupcake or rose on the card.  After making up my mind I decided on having a cupcake on the front as I was ordering a rose for my mum (Which you will be able to read about soon).

I set to work, gathering the materials I was going to use.  I already had the card stock and some of the paper I was going to use.  But I just did not have any cupcake items for card making.

So off I went into town, to see what I could find.  To my knowledge there is only about three places in the town, that sells card making stuff.  One of them is 'The Works'  ( which is a book/stationary/craft store ).  I got some new card and paper stock.  They also had some cupcake embellishments, but not really what I was looking for. 

So I popped into Wilko's to have a mooch round, while I was in there I found Dovercrafts Tea Party 8"x8" Glitter Decoupage pad.  I hummed and arr about getting the Tea party  

    pad, I even walked around the store.  Once I made up my mind I went back and pick it up  

    and went down to the checkout to pay! 

Once I got home I had to hide what I had just bought, as my mum was about.  I wait until mum had gone to bed before I could set to work, with making her birthday card.

I got out one of my already folder purple cards and placed it on the table.  I then folder the front of the card in half again, to make it look like this.

Once I had folded the card I then got out my section of girly gift wrap paper.  It took me a little while to work out which paper I was going to use.  I decided to use two of my gift wrap paper's.  First one is pink with a outline flowers and a pink check effect a bit like a table cloth.  The second one as 'mum' write on it - with bear's and flowers.  

After I had decided on which paper's I was going to use, I cutted them down to size.  I then got my trust worthy double sided sticky tape out and stuck the bears and flowers paper to the back flap of the card.  I did the same with the pink flower paper, but this time I stuck the paper to the front flap. 

Then I got out my Dovercraft Tea Party pad.  I decided to use the single cupcake topper in the pack.  So I pushed out the pieces to the cupcake and then I got out my double sided sticky tape pad's and layed the pieces up, to how I wanted it to look.

Once I had done that, it was time to stick the topper using double-sided sticky tape to the card! 

Mum loved the card I made her and also the rose I got her.