3D Sparkle for Friday Mashup

This week at The Friday Mashup Holly is our hostess and she has a fun challenge for us, one that pushed me out of my comfort zone a bit. She would like us to make a 3D item plus use glitter. 

For my 3D item I decided to do a flat backed treat box, directions can be found HERE. I made both boxes out of Crumb Cake cardstock and then decorated them with various papers and stamps for each holiday. The glitter on the Christmas box comes in the form of Silver Glimmer Paper and on the Halloween box I used some retired Black Chunky Glitter around the edges. Hershey Kisses fit in these boxes perfectly and would make a great teacher gift during the holidays!

I also have to give my husband credit because when I showed him the boxes he said I should put 3 pumpkins on the front of the Halloween one. I said yeah, we'll see and went back to my craft area. I put 3 pumpkins on and sure enough, it looked good. I went out there and told him "you better write this down on the calendar because you may never hear it again....you were right". ROFL 

Head over to the Friday Mashup blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us!

Here's your Mashup Challenge:

• Create a project with Glitter.
• Create a 3-D Project.. Box, Bag, Candy holder etc. 
• or Mash it Up! and create 3-D item using some Glitter!
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Stamps: Snow Place, Howl-O-Ween Treat

Paper: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Home for Christmas DSP, Tangelo Twist DSP, Silver Glimmer Paper

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Cherry Cobbler, Tangelo Twist

Accessories: Big Shot, Snow Friends Framelits, Boo to You Framelits, Chunky Black Glitter (retired), Simply Scored Tool

Shake Your Congrats for Friday Mashup

This week at The Friday Mashup Holly is our hostess and she wants use to create shaker cards with a congratulations theme!

I decided to use the set Celebrate today. I used the balloon die to cut a shape out of the DSP and then created my shaker portion of the card. I used 2014-16 In Color sequins for the shaker. Even though I stamped 'celebrate' this card can be used for any occasion. I think I'm actually going to use it as a congratulations card for a new baby!

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us!

Stamps: Celebrate Today

Paper: Coastal Cabana, Whisper White, Best Year Ever DSP

Ink: Coastal Cabana

Accessories: Big Shot, Balloon Framelits, Scallop Edge Border Punch, In Color Sequins

Grungy Layer for Friday Mashup

It's Friday once again and it's a good one around here, my daughter flew in from AZ last night to spend Christmas at home! She moved to the Lower 48 in August and we've missed her terribly, so having her home for the holidays is very nice!

Holly is our hostess this week at The Friday Mashup and she has a great sketch for us, plus she'd like to see a grungy element on our project.

I'm working on some cards for a friend here in Alaska so I grabbed the Walk in the Wild set to use this beautiful moose. Our lack of good snow has been keeping all the moose higher up in the hills so I haven't had any in my yard yet this season (that I've seen!), which is such a bummer. Hopefully we get some snow soon and they move on down this way.

My grungy element is one of the stamps from the Gorgeous Grunge set stamped behind my image and across the card. The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

I hope you'll head over to The Friday Mashup and play along with us. The challenge will run 2 weeks this time due to the holidays, giving everyone plenty of time to play along!

This week's Mashup Challenge is:

• Create a project using the "Sketch". 
• Create a "2 Layer card with a grungy element in the background". 
• or Mash it Up! and create a project "using the sketch that's 2 layers only".

Stamps: Walk in the Wild, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, White Craft

Accessories: Sponge, dimensionals

Going to Space for Friday Mashup

I'm back with The Friday Mashup this week and Holly has a fun technique for us to try. It's called the Galaxy Technique and you can watch videos on it HERE and HERE. She also wants us to create a project for a friend.

After asking my fellow DT members what they used I went with reinkers on wax paper. I mimicked fellow DT Sara by using Naturals White card stock instead of watercolor paper. Its a great replacement and I frequently use it for watercolor projects, even though I do have watercolor paper on hand.

For my reinkers I used Crushed Curry, Basic Black and Bermuda Bay. I also used a Smoky Slate Stamping Spot. I dropped/stamped them all on wax paper and then spritzed it with water and used a paper towel to make sure it was wet but not too wet. I then put my piece of Naturals White down to pick up the color. I did this a few times to get the desired effect, with a heat tool used to dry the paper and ink when I thought it was getting too moist. If you head over to The Friday Mashup you'll see that Tara and I were thinking along the same lines with our images :)

I then took the image and sentiment and embossed it with Whisper White embossing powder on a panel I cut out with the Window Frames framelits. I then repeated the technique on this panel, wiping the ink off the embossed portion as I went along.

To finish off the card I backed the image panel on a Basic Black panel cut out with the next size up Window Frame and adhered it all with dimensionals. It's a fun card to give to an out of this world friend!

Head over to The Friday Mashup and see all the great cards from the rest of the DT, and then give the technique a try!

Here's your Mashup Challenge:

• Create a project with the "Galaxy Technique".   Links to technique HERE &HERE
• Create a project for "A Friend". 
• or Mash it Up! and create a "Project for a friend using the Galaxy Technique".

Stamps: Love You to the Moon (retired)

Paper: Basic Black, Naturals White

Ink: Smoky Slate, Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Bermuda Bay, Craft White

Accessories: Big Shot, Window Frame Framelits, Festive Paper Piercing Pack, Whisper White Embossing Power, Heat Tool

Into The Light for Friday Mashup

Happy Friday! I hope everyone has had a great week. We just finished up our first full week back to school here and so far, so good!

This week Holly is our hostess at The Friday Mashup and she has a technique for us to try out called the Bokeh Technique. If you are familiar with photography then you may know a bit about this look already....it's the aesthetic quality produced in the out of focus parts of an image produced by a lens. At Christmas you can see a lot of photos that use the Bokeh technique!

I wont lie, this was a hard one for me. I watched the video that Holly provided for us and my watercolor background looked like junk and I finally gave up after about 5 attempts at it. I decided to go another route by grabbing some Night of Navy cardstock and stamping various circles on it with White Craft Ink and also silver metallic ink. That seemed to give it the dimension that mimics bokeh.

Holly also wanted us to use die cuts on our project so I used the Festive Flurry Framelits to cut out some snowflakes in Night of Navy and Silver Glimmer paper. The sentiment is from the Holiday Home set and I used the Bitty Banner Framelits to cut it out.

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup blog and check out the awesome projects from the DT team, the other ladies really nailed the Bokeh technique!

• Create a project with the "Bokeh Technique".  Link to technique here.
• Create a project with "Die Cuts".
• or Mash it Up! and create a "Bokeh project using a Die Cut". 

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Holiday Home

Paper: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer

Ink: Night of Navy, White Craft Ink, Metallic Silver

Accessories: Big Shot, Festive Furry Framelits, Bitty Banner Framelits, dimensionals, sponge 

Hello Sailor for Friday Mashup

This week at The Friday Mashup Holly is our hostess and she wants to create a project that says hello, and to use sequins. This week I did not mash it up as I do not own a single sequin so my card is all about the hello.

I grabbed the set Sea Street during the preorder but this is the first time I've inked it up. Isn't the octopus just adorable? To get my hello in I used an image from the set Hello, Sailor, which was in the Occasions catalog. That circle isn't part of the sketch but its the only place I liked the sentiment so hopefully its ok! Both circles are popped up with dimensionals. I also embossed the background with the Decorative Dots EF to make it look like bubbles.

My sketch inspiration came from the The Paper Players, I'm sneaking in at the very last second for their challenge!

Come by The Friday Mashup to see what the rest of the DT came up with and play along with us!

Create a project using "Sequins".

Create  a "Hello or Hi project".

or Mash it Up! and create a "Hello project with Sequins".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Sea Street, Hello, Sailor(retired)

Paper: Night of Navy, Real Red, Whisper White, Maritime DSP

Ink: Real Red, Night of Navy, Coastal Cabana

Accessories: Big Shot, Decorative Dots EF, Circles Collection, Banners Framelits, dimensionals

 

The Bride for MDS Monday

Its been a while since I played along with MDS Monday so what better time to do it than when everyone else in the house is sleeping and I'm just sitting here watching 'Jail' on TV.

Holly has a great layout for this challenge and I decided to use photos from my cousins wedding that took place in March. We're not blood cousins, but we've been best friends since we were 12 and when we found out our families had a link(her dad, who was in the Army, knew one of my dad's cousins who lived across the country) we were instantly "cousins" and have referred to each other as that all these years!

She called me about 2 months before the wedding and asked me to officiate her wedding, as I was her oldest friend and that would mean the world to her. Of course I said yes! However this also meant I couldn't get as many pictures of her and her groom as I wanted because I had my official duties to take care of, but I did get a few, mainly at the reception.

It was wonderful to be there for her special day and I hope they have a lifetime of happiness!

Colorful Childrens Birthday for Friday Mashup

Happy Friday to you all! Our abnormally warm winter in southcentral Alaska is moving right along into an abnormally warm spring...its supposed to hit 70 today! That's my cutoff for warm temps so if it gets any higher than that I'll be hiding out in the house :)

Today's Friday Mashup is brought to us by Holly and she wants us to make a project for a child using the following colors: Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Wild Wasabi and neutrals.

I grabbed the set 'You're My Hero' for my card. I just bought this set recently and am so sad to see it retiring. Oh well, I'll still use it! As a former firefighter I just get the biggest kick out of these images! What better for a kids birthday card than a fun fire engine? I don't know too many kids who don't live to see the big red truck screaming down the road, siren a blaring!

My sketch inspiration came from the current Sunday Stamps challenge, it was a great sketch to use when incorporating several colors!

Come by The Friday Mashup and check out all the great projects from the rest of the design team, and play along with us!

1. Create a project using the Colors "Turquoise, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi & Neutral of your choice".
2. Create a project for "a Child".
3. Or mash it up and create a project with the "Above Colors for a Child".

 

 

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: You're My Hero

Paper: Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Naturals White, Polka Dot Parade DSP

Ink: Real Red, Basic Black

Accessories: Big Shot, Window Labels Framelits, Paper Piercer

 

Masculine Stitches for Friday Mashup

This week at The Friday Mashup Holly is our hostess and she would like us to create a masculine project, and also add some stitching to it.

I love masculine projects, probably because I'm more of an earthy, dark colors type of girl. I don't like pink, purple, red, etc,...... give me blues, greens and browns any day.  For this card I went with some of the bold patterns from the Retro Fresh DSP. Not everyone may think that Coastal Cabana and Tangerine Tango are good masculine colors but I like them together! When I used the Tangerine Tango along with some So Saffron on the grass around the moose I was thinking about the rich colors that take over Alaska for a few weeks in the fall, which also happens to be moose rutting season and when you can really see some big bull moose out and about!

I had finished the card when I remembered the stitching. Thankfully I hadn't set the moose image on there permanently yet so I took it and did some faux stitching around the image panel and roughed up the corners a tad. The birthday sentiment is from the Labels of Love set.

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup to see all the great projects from the rest of the design team!

1. Create a "Masculine" project.
2. Create a project with some "Stitching/sewing on it".
3. or Create a "Masculine project with Stitching on it".

 

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Walk in the Wild, Labels of Love

Paper: Coastal Cabana, Very Vanilla, Retro Fresh DSP

Ink: Baked Brown Sugar, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron

Accessories: Paper Piercer, Artisan Label Punch, sponge, dimensionals

Birthday Twine for Friday Mashup

The first full week of 2014 is ending, and can I just say THANK YOU! :) A nasty virus moved through my house over Christmas break, hitting my husband and 2 boys, but it so kindly held off until this week for me. Wasn't that nice of it? NOT Thank goodness for Dayquil, it has been my best friend the last few days!

Stamping makes me feel better also, and this Friday Mashup challenge from Holly is a nice one. She wants use to create a birthday project, and to also use twine on it. Observant folks may notice that my layout looks pretty familiar....if you look on page 15 of the SU catalog you'll see where my layout come from! I changed up the color of the cardstock and DSP and used twine along the sides instead of stitching. Nice and easy card!

I hope you'll come by The Friday Mashup and play along with us!

Here's your Mashup Challenge:

1. Create a project with "Twine."
2. Create a "Birthday Themed" project. 
3. Or Mash it Up and create a "Birthday Project with some Twine."

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Bring on the Cake, Gorgeous Grunge

Paper: Pear Pizzazz, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Gingham Garden DSP

Ink: Island Indigo, Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight

Accessories: Big Shot, Nestabilities Lacey Circles, Island Indigo Bakers Twine, sponge

Sketchy Chevrons for Friday Mashup

Happy Friday! How many folks have a candy hangover? I know I sure do! We don't get a lot of kids where I live so I always make sure to buy plenty of candy that we just "happen" to have left over, hehehehe :)

Today's Friday Mashup is brought to us by Holly, and she is all about a sketch that incorporates chevrons. Some of you with a keen eye may recognize this as a layout from a card in the holiday mini. Because I'm not a fan of chevrons(I'm really trying to ignore the whole chevron craze) and because the sketch stumped me I went simple and CASE'd the card from the catalog. I changed up a few things, such as the card base, glitter, coloring in the image and the use of a banner in the top right corner.

This is also the first challenge with all of our new design team members so I hope you'll come by the Friday Mashup blog, check out their creations and play along!

I'm also entering this card over at Merry Monday, as the challenge there this week is all about Santa! I love Santa, he is one of my favorite things about Christmas!

Create a project with "the Sketch."

Create a project using "Chevrons."

Or Mash it Up and create a project "with the above Sketch & Chevrons. "

 

 

 

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Santa's List

Paper: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Season of Style DSP Paper Stack

Ink: Black StazOn, Cherry Cobbler, Smoky Slate, Old Olive

Accessories: Big Shot, Stylish Stripes EF, Aquapainter, Dazzling Diamonds, sponge, dimensionals

 

Washi Notecards for Friday Mashup

Hello and happy Friday! Today in a good portion of Alaska its going to be very windy and very wet, perfect crafting weather.

To get you crafting we have a great challenge this week at The Friday Mashup, brought to us by our fearless leader Holly. She wants us to create a set of quick 3x3 note cards, and also use Washi Tape on them.

I have to be honest and say I have not jumped on the Washi Tape craze. The tape I used on these note cards are the only ones I own, and that's because I got them during SU's Sale-A-Bration. My husband says I just like being difficult by bucking what everyone else is doing LOL

As you can see on my note cards I didnt use as much Washi Tape as the other DT members. On two of my note cards I just had to add DSP, I couldn't get myself to use the tape alone. Therefore only 1 of my note cards only has strictly Washi Tape on it and nothing else.

Head on over to The Friday Mashup blog and play along with us!

1. Create a project with "Washi Tape."
2. Create a "set of 3x3 Quick Note Cards."
3. Or Mash it Up and create a "Set of 3x3 Note Cards using some Washi Tape".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Label Love

Paper: Island Indigo, Daffodial Delight, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Gingham Garden DSP

Ink: Island Indigo, Melon Mambo

Accessories: Artisan Label Punch, Gingham Garden Designer Washi Tape

 

Sketchy Butterflies for Friday Mashup

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a good week. Mine wasn't too bad....it was my first week back to work after taking all of last week off and things went nice and smooth, the way I like it. Now I'm ready for the weekend!

This week Holly has a Mashup for us that's actually a triple challenge!

1. Make a project using the "Sketch".

2. Or Make a project using "Butterflies & Your Brayer".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project with "your Brayer using the Sketch and add some Butterflies".

I'm mashing it up but I didn't triple it because I don't own a brayer, sorry! I couldn't find one at the stores in my area and in Anchorage the only brayer Michaels had was 28.00!! Um, yeah, no, I'll order the SU one for 12.50 eventually :)

My grandma loved butterflies so I thought of her as I was making this. Since she passed in June of 2008 I pictured butterflies floating through the sky, representing her. She inspired me in every aspect of life and someday if I am half the grandma she was I'll be doing good!

I used my favorite color combo of the moment...Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry and Lucky Limeade. Can I just say how much I am going to cry when Island Indigo and Lucky Limeade retire this summer? I love love love those colors and will definitely stock up on them!

I hope you'll come by The Friday Mashup blog and check out all the great inspiration from the design team, and then play along with us!

Brads and Birthday Wishes

This week our Friday Mashup comes from Holly and its all about birthdays and brads. That's right, create a birthday card, a project that uses brads or mash it up and make a birthday card that has brads on it!

I mashed it up and made a masculine birthday card using  The Open Sea set. I just love this set, its one of my favorites. I added my brads down in the bottom right.

Head on over to The Friday Mashup blog to see what the rest of the design team has for you and then play along with us, we'd love to have you!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: The Open Sea, Word Play, Bring On the Cake(inside sentiment)

Paper: Not Quite Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Nautical Expedition DSP

Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Circles, 1 3/4" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, Early Espresso Brads, sponge, dimensionals

Embossed Yellow, Gray and Black for Friday Mashup

Wow, its Friday, where the heck did the week go? I don't know about everyone else but it flew by for me! I am definitely ready for the weekend!

Today at the Friday Mashup we have a great challenge for you, brought to us by Holly. I just love the photo she chose for the graphic, isn't it stunning? For the challenge she wants us to use dry embossing, make a project that uses the colors Daffodil Delight, Basic Gray and Basic Black OR mash it up and create a project with embossing and those colors. I love to dry emboss and I love those colors so I mashed it up this week.

Hold on to your seat because ((gasp)) I didn't make a Christmas card! I seriously thought about it, because these colors would definitely be interesting and out of the box but in the end I brought out a set from the holiday catalog I hadn't used yet, Friendship Preserves.

The main image is stamped in Basic Gray and matted on Daffodil Delight and Basic Black. The panel behind it is Basic Gray embossed with the square lattice folder and layered on more Basic Black card stock. I did paper piercing around the labels to draw the eye in some more.

Head on over to the Friday Mashup blog to check out all the great projects from the rest of the design team, and I hope you play along with us!

1. Make a project with "Dry Embossing".
2. Or Make a project using the colors " Daffodil Delight, Basic Grey & Basic Black".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project with "Dry Embossing & The Color Combo".

 

Back to School for Friday Mashup

Hello and happy Friday to everyone! Are you ready for the weekend? I sure am! I've got lots of chores to do, such as splitting and stacking wood, in preparation for winter(which is quickly approaching here, our mountains just got their first dusting of snow!).

With the arrival of September Holly has a great challenge for us this week at The Friday Mashup....a back to school project! You can also do a project that has sewing on it OR you can mash it up and do a back to school project that has sewing on it.

Here in southcentral Alaska students go back to school in the middle of August but growing up my schools always started after the Labor Day holiday weekend, so for me back to school invokes images of fall, and that's what I went with for my card. I added the "You Inspire Me" sentiment so that way it could be a perfect card for a teacher still!

However I was a bad girl and forgot to do any sewing on my card. I got the card finished, went back and looked at the challenge and went "oh crap". Sorry Holly!

Make sure you head over to the Friday Mashup blog to check out all the great projects from the rest of the design team!

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge:

1. Make a "Back to School" themed project.
   
2. Or Make a project with "Sewing".
   
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Back to School project with Sewing".

Thinking of You for Sunday Stamps

This week over at Sunday Stamps Holly has a great sketch for us! I normally have trouble with sketches that involve circles but as soon as I saw this one I knew right away that I wanted to use the set Greeting Card Kids.

For my colors I played along with the Dynamic Duos challenge. You are to use Crumb Cake plus another color, so I chose Riding Hood Red.

Head over to Sunday Stamps and play along with us!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Greeting Card Kids, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Paper: Crumb Cake, Riding Hood Red, Watercolor Paper

Ink: Black StazOn, Crumb Cake, Riding Hood Red, Soft Suede

Accessories: Crumb Cake ribbon, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Nestabilities dies-Lacey Circles and Standard Circles, Big Shot, Paper Piercing Tool, Aquapainter

Summer Colors for Sunday Stamps

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is enjoying the last day of the weekend! I had a very busy weekend an I'm not ready for 5:30am Monday to get here, but I know its going to arrive way too soon!

I've been playing along with the new challenge blog Sunday Stamps and good news, I've been accepted as a member of the design team for the blog, woohooo! I'm really excited about it and I hope all of my friends out there in blog land come and play along with us.

This week its a color challenge and Holly says she pictures lots of daisies and dandelions with the colors she gives us this week.....Daffodil Delight, Basic Black and Old Olive. I love all 3 of these colors!

I used a newly retired set, Upsy Daisy. I kept saying I was going to buy this set, and when I saw it was being retired I finally went ahead and got it. Should have done it sooner but oh well! I like it and I'll use it, retired or not.

Remember, head on over to Sunday Stamps and play along with us!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Upsy Daisy, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Watercolor Paper, Very Vanilla(inside card)

Ink: Old Olive

Accessories: Daffodil Delight, Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots EF, dimensionals

Getting Sketchy with Sunday Stamps

Holly has a great sketch this week on Sunday Stamps. Nice and CAS, I love it!


This morning when I woke up and checked my Facebook I found out a mutual friend of Holly and I's got engaged last night in WA state, and so she was the inspiration behind today's card. It's definitely more girly than I usually make but being a bride is usually about being girly though right :0)


 Did you know that June is the most popular month for weddings? Yep, its true! Guess I stayed true to form by being different and getting married in February(18.5 yrs ago!), which isnt even in the top 10 for wedding months, lol. We'll have to see what month our friend chooses :)


Make sure you head over to Sunday Stamps and check out this weeks challenge, and word on the blog strip is that Holly will be introducing design team members, plus is also still looking for folks for the DT, so go check it out!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Love & Laughter

Paper: Basic Gray, Blushing Bride, Whisper White, Twitterpated DSP

Ink: Blushing Bride, Basic Gray

Accessories: Scallop Edge Border Pumch, Modern Label Punch, Basic Pearls, sponge, dimensionals

Birthday Cupcakes for Sunday Stamps

This card was made for this weeks Sunday Stamps challenge. I tried to get it in before the link closed but I missed it by about 30 mins, oooops! Next time I wont eat dinner :)

This week it was a color challenge, using Riding Hood Red, Regal Rose and Soft Suede. I decided to use the cupcake builder punch for a nice CAS birthday card. I don't care for the color pink so using Regal Rose was a bit hard for me but I incorporated it as the top portion of the cupcake...pink frosting!

Make sure you head over to Sunday Stamps and give it a try. It's a new challenge blog started by my friend Holly!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: sentiment from Petite Pairs, Background Basics

Paper: Soft Suede, Riding Hood Red, Regal Rose DSP, Candy Lane DSP(retired)

Ink: Soft Suede, Riding Hood Red, Regal Rose, Versamark

Accessories: 1 3/8" square punch,Cupcake Builder Punch,  Dazzling Details Cherry Cobbler, sponge