It is Sunday, which of course means it is time for a new Cupcake Inspirations Challenge.  This week we are sponsoring a theme challenge looking for cards for Bows.

I am not a big ribbon person, and rarely use actual bows in my work.  The main reason for this is that I just can’t tie pretty bows.  There are crafters who have made an absolute art of bow tieing.  I just have never been one of them.  So I knew in this challenge I would have to rely on other types of bows (even though I did find in the end that could tie a fairly decent bow if I used quite a bit of glossy accents).

I pulled out a Santoro Gorjuss stamp and stamped out the focal image.  Then using two different sized bows from the stamp pack I created a wall paper behind the focal image.

I did pull out a bit of scrap ribbon I had laying around and pulled the colors from the ribbon to pick the colors to color.  (I just couldn’t bring myself to use the hot pink in the inspiration photo.)  I colored in the focal image and bows with my copics, trying to keep everything crisp and white in the back ground.  Then I pulled out some Liquitex Iridescent bright Gold ink and painted the rim of the tea cup and saucer.  I wish you could see how pretty the gold ink reflects light in real life.  It added something really neat to the whole image.

I added the bow with some double sided tape and spent forever trying to tie a pretty bow.  In the end, with quite a bit of glossy accents I came up with a decent bow and adhered that too. Then I added the whole thing to an A2 card base and left it at just that.  

I encourage you to take a minute and go see what the other Design Sweeties came up with.  Their interpretation of the theme is really amazing (and there are some really pretty bows).