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September 20, 2010

Ella's Birthday Bash! (Week 3)

Posted by: Ella

The birthday bash continues!

Just leave a comment on this post describing your favorite kind of cupcake or birthday cake (or your most ingenious birthday-cake creation ever) by September 24, and you could win...

A Birthday in a Box! (Including the treats, party games, and decorations you see above, pictured in full on week 1 of our party.)

A $25 gift card to spend at Shutterfly.com on photo prints, photo books, or other amazing photo gifts!

A $25 coupon code to spend at Scrapbook.com on their mind-boggling assortment of scrapbooking supplies and goodies.

This complete paper collection (including journaling cards, brads, letter stickers, label stickers, and a mini paper pad) from Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker! This darling young company is one of Ella's blog sponsors, and we're grateful for their support—and for their fun product lines.

For Extra Entries

1) Tweet this message to your Twitter followers:
Loving @ellapublishing's Birthday Bash! Hope I win prizes from Shutterfly, Scrapbook.com & Nikki Sivils! How about you? http://ow.ly/2GRl7
2) Forward any recent Ella e-mail newsletter you've received to five crafty friends with a personal invitation to join our e-mail list. (There's a "forward email" link at the bottom of any Ella newsletter. Use that link!)
3) Buy yourself a fancy cupcake this week to celebrate. We promise that we will too!

Leave another comment below for each item above you completed by Friday, September 24. You can leave one comment for every five friends you email! This week's winner will be announced next Monday, and you'll have a brand new chance to win more awesome prizes! (Honor system for the extra entries please.)

Week Two's Winners!

Birthday in a Box: JennaRuth (comment #26)
Scrapbook.com prize: tprinsse (comment #58)
Shutterfly.com prize: keisha_hartt (comment #71)
SRM Press prize: ReneeB (comment #13)

All winners have been emailed about their prizes. Congrats, ladies!
 

On Sale This Week

Each week this month, a different Ella product will go on sale! (And if you receive Ella's newsletter, you got a one-time-use $1 coupon in your inbox during week one that you're also free to use.) This week, enjoy Text Tricks for Scrapbookers: Creative looks for titles and journaling by Margaret Scarbrough and Sara Winnick. Regularly $4.99, on sale for $3.99 this week only!


 

Posted at 07:29 AM
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My favourite cupcakes are Red Velvet Cupcakes with cream cheese icing!
Posted by: kelwil on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 07:37
I tweeted!
Posted by: skgberry on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 07:41
White cake with buttercream frosting. Yummy!
Posted by: Myra on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 07:42
And my favorite birthday cake is coconut, made by my mom with seven minute frosting and sprinkled with freshly grated coconut. One year in Thailand the coconut was fresh off the tree in our yard.
Posted by: skgberry on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 07:42
My favorite cake is carrot cake with nuts and cream cheese frosting.
Posted by: vickstersg on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:17
My favorite cake? Oh boy...that's tough. How about chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Oh gosh...or carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. :)
Posted by: debbasd on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:23
Love a simple angel food cake. BTW -- I've tweeted your message.
Laura T. http://www.mom2nick.typepad.com
Posted by: latbaskets on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:26
S'mores cupcakes are my go to birthday treat!
Posted by: sarah on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:28
Gotta be chocolate. A lovely, tender devil's food cake with a vanilla buttercream frosting, which is the perfect canvas for creative, colorful decorations. I'd go buy one, but, gosh, I just made a batch. I get to eat my own homemade devil's food cupcakes! Life is good.
Posted by: catnaps on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:31
My favorite birthday cake was a pineapple cake that my grandmother made for me!! Pineapple cake that my Nanny makes is always my favorite!!
Posted by: christa_allgood on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:34
The coolest cake I ever made was a recreation of the Star Trek symbol. You know, the one they tap to communicate with others on the ship or elsewhere. My son LOVED it!!
Life is good!
Posted by: lady_jane on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:35
My favorite cupcake is red velvet with homemade cream cheese frosting. My mom's are to die for!
Erika
Posted by: emichaels on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:54
Tweeted @bluetulip29
Erika
Posted by: emichaels on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:56
My favorite cupcake is a banana cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. It's my perfect birthday cupcake which I got on my birthday last Wednesday :)
Posted by: beida-fish on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:58
I made a cake shaped like a teddy bear for my son's 1st birthday.
Posted by: scoxbill on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:59
My favorite cupcake is a new one by my cake lady ..... strawberry/chocolate marble with buttercream frosting ... YUM!
Posted by: shannon13 on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 09:04
Mine is the lemon cupcakes from Nothing Bunt Cakes. so yummy I can't even think about it with out getting fatter.
Posted by: scrappinwhenican on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 09:09
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Chocolate and chocolate for me!

Keshet http://overtherainbow-keshet.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Keshet Shenkar on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 09:11
My favorite cake is either gooey butter cake or jello cake!! Hey you can stick candles in anything, right?!
Posted by: editorialdragon on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 09:31
My favorite cake is all chocolate- chocolate filled, chocolate flavored, chocolate icing!!! Thank you the prize too!!! My birthday is coming up :)
Posted by: JennaRuth on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 09:42
My all time favorite is a simple angel food cake with whip cream and fresh strawberries.
Posted by: sew7752 on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 09:44
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My favorite is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. It makes my mouth water just thinking about it!
Posted by: goldnuggt on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 10:05
A pool party cake. A 9x13 cake with a rectangle cut out of the middle and the inside filled with blue Jell-o. The edge decorated with paper umbrellas and Teddy Grahams. Washn't my idea, but I did make it all myself. Favourite cake - it's all good!
Posted by: TracyBzz on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 10:53
cheesecake all the way!
Posted by: MichelleMKK on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 10:54
vanilla cupcakes with coconut on top!
Posted by: rkokes on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 10:59
Hi my all time favorite cake is a simple swedish "jordgubbstårta"/strawberry cake- thats an spongcake layered with whipped cream, vanilla custard and fresh sunripe strawberrys from your own backyard- b´cas my bday is in july and that was my childhood b´day cakes homemade by mom(though I sometimes whined about getting a storebought cake and -as most kids- not fully appriciating that labour of love from my beloved mom!
Posted by: piautriainen@ho on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 11:14
When my kids were little we always did a theme cake. Mini pumpkins for my Oct baby one year. We had orange frosting and black for the faces! The black frosting stained all the sweet little kids faces as they smeared it . It was a scary sight!!
Posted by: scrapperk on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 11:28
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Even though I love making my baked goods from scratch, I still have a soft spot for the boxed funfetti cake mix & icing.
Meghann Andrew www.meghannslittlecorner.blogspot.com
Posted by: Meghann Andrew on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 12:22
My cousin got married this past Saturday... they had cupcakes instead of a wedding cake. I ate the MOST WONDERFUL peanut butter cupcake. It's my mission to get the recipe!!
Posted by: stacy4855 on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 12:25
Without a doubt my favourite cupcake (although I prefer the term "muffin") is the pumpkin-chocolate chip muffin from Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook. The kids have no idea how healthy these things are. The smattering of chocolate chips simply sucks them right in.
Tricky Nag
Posted by: trickynag on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 12:29