{lovin' from the oven - The Paper Variety!}

This week's challenge at The Paper Variety is to make a paper project using cupcakes as your inspiration. One cupcake or a bunch of cupcakes. Little cupcakes or big cupcakes. Chocolate or vanilla...it's all good! :)

On a recent snowy day, I cleaned out some kitchen cupboards and found this old cupcake tin. Thinking of this challenge, I knew I wanted to alter it. When the weather cleared, I made a trip to Hobby Lobby and bought some cream spray paint. Four coats later, and my old cupcake tin was lookin' shiny and new. I then used my most favorite embellies to make it into a piece of wall art - heidi swapp chip hearts and some jillibean soup buttons, tied w/DMC. Love!! The little 7Gypsies chip pieces were made into magnets using a For the Luv of Art stamp, Unity cupcake stamp, some Martha Stewart gold micro beads, machine stitching and a button tied w/DMC. To finish, I looped some Strano ribbon through the top of the tin.

I really love how this project turned out. I have it hanging above my kitchen sink and it looks so cute! My man/son Thomas asked me when I got home from work the other day..."hey, mom...how 'bout some lovin' from the oven?" He cracks me up!!! :)

Check it out!!!

Another fabulous prize from The Paper Variety! I don't know how Suzanne and Abby do it...but they offer up the most awesome prizes every single week! If you're not playing....you're not paying attention. LOL!! ;) This week's prize is from The Treasure Box Club.

~a couple of cupcake tin close-ups~

In this next photo, you can see that I used small round magnets. I adhered them to the chip pieces w/Fabri-Tac by BEACON. Great stuff!!! :)

I hope you'll get a chance to play with us this week at The Paper Variety!! Link up before noon, next Tuesday, February 15, for a chance to win that fab prize from The Treasure Box Club!

Thanks for coming by my blog & have a great day!!
hugs, patti