It is Sunday, which makes it time for a new challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations.  This week we are sporting a color challenge, looking for designs whipped up with the colors forest, papaya, and eggplant.

And on a side note, who doesn’t want one of those beautiful little cupcakes?  Yum.

This week we are sponsored by Newtons Nooks who is offering one random participant this week $25 in store credit.

This week I found myself a little stuck in the muck of design.  I just couldn’t come up with a something that I even liked.  I don’t know if it was due to the dark colors, or just over thinking things, but for once I tossed a bunch of work into the bin.  This one came close, but ended up on the cutting room floor when I just simply messed it up over inking the paper.

In the end I went back to basics.   I just KISSed it…as in ‘keep it simple, stupid’.  I colored in a sweet little Newton stamp from the Boo Crew with my copics, and fussy cut him out.  Then I snagged a bit of dark purple card stock and trimmed it up.  I didn’t cut it even, so I went with it, and really cut it uneven.  Then I snagged some dark green halloween printed paper, that just happened to have some orange with in it and placed it under the whole assembly.

Once again I thought I had just mucked up another design…but I was too tired to start over.  So I tried something.  I grabbed my Versamark and white embossing powder and started embossing candy onto the purple card stock.  I worked.  It made the card settle in a way that I liked.  I would have been easier to emboss everything had the card not already been assembled, but in the end, I liked the results.

Take a few minutes and pop on over to the blogs of the other design time Sweeties to see how cute their designs are this week.  It is a super diverse group of work this week.