Easy Blueberry Lemon Cupcakes AND Free Printable Toppers

SO moist and most importantly super easy!! Give these blueberry lemon cupcakes a try.

Blueberry & Lemon Cupcakes
Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mix together the following
1 box of white cake mix ( I used Pilsbury Classic White mix, with pudding)
1 can of blueberry pie filling
2 eggs
1 tsp lemon extract

Place cupcake wrappers in cupcake tin and fill each wrapper 1/2 full of cupcake batter. Bake for 18-20 minutes (depending on your oven). Be sure to check with a toothpick to see if they are done, the looks on these are deceiving and will burn before you know it.  When done, put onto a cooling rack then place in a container and put in fridge until ready to serve.

Lemon Buttercream Frosting
Beat together

1/2 cup of room temperature butter (soft, but not melted)
2-3 cups of powdered sugar (add slowly one cup at a time)
2 tsp lemon extract
2-3 Tbls whipping cream


Frosting should be light and fluffy. Add to chilled cupcakes right before serving. Refrigerate any left overs or if you need to double the batch of frosting if you like to pile it on to each cupcake!

 TFIOS fans, these printable cupcake toppers are now FREE to download through this post, The Fault In Our Stars Movie Premiere Party At Home. 

Enjoy & DFTBA!
Pamela

*Custom TFIOS themed confetti by The Flair Exchange

TFIOS Party Sneak Peek

Just a little teaser from "The Fault In Our Stars" party I put together inspired by the book by John Green and soon to be movie (coming out June 6, 2014). MORE images and all the details next week!! 

Stop by PSMIYO today for a quick DIY on the DFTBA block I used in the photo shown above. 

DFTBA, 

PS

Credits: 

Cake Pops by Astonishing Cakes

Mini Poster, Favor Boxes, Tags, Kleenex Wrappers, Photography, Styling and Concept by Pamela Smerker Designs

Confetti by The Flair Exchange

Inspired By Color ~ Turquoise

My hubby and I are in the middle of reading the book "The Fault In Our Stars". We actually have already listened to the cd version, read by John Green himself (the author). I don't want to spoil it for you in case you haven't read this book, but it is a serious tear jerker. SO good! 

I started a Pinterest board with quotes from the book and thought it would be fun to create one of my "Inspired By Color" boards to go along with the book cover, which as you can see is turquoise. 

1. Women's Raw-hem sweatshirt from The Gap

2. The Fault In Our Stars audio book by John Green

3. Converse neon blue laces

4. Blue Ipod Touch by Apple

5. OPI nail polish "Yodel Me On My Cell"

6. Men's Soft Wash "fresh teal" t-shirt from Banana Republic

This book has me so inspired that I am planning to create a fun movie premiere party for June 6, 2014. YES, a movie has been made and I can't wait to see it, oh and of course will be bringing a BOX of tissues with me! Keep an eye out for a "The Fault In Our Stars" party inspiration board over on D & P Celebrations in the next month or so. 

DFTBA,

PS

My Life Squared { 1.17.14 - 1.23.14 }

Here is "My Life Squared", some of the moments I captured over the past week. 

SO... my hubby and I love the Green brothers, Hank and John. We watch their educational shows on YouTube and follow their channel, The Vlog Brothers. John has written several books one of which, "The Fault In Our Stars" has been made into a movie which will come out June, 6 2014! John made a video of himself reading the first two chapters of this book which is where my hubby and I got hooked. We bought the book on cd, which is read by John himself. We bought the book,  OH and I got myself the t-shirt over the weekend (tee hee). Seriously, we laughed out loud, I sobbed violently. I love this book and can't wait for the movie!! I started reading the book again last night, just because there are so many great lines. You may just see a little movie premiere party action going on over at D & P Celebrations for the Summer issue of Polka Dot Balloon Magazine *wink wink. 

Dawn and I have a little design challenge going on for our design team over at D & P. Our designers have been challenged to use our new "Love Birds" squares. I grabbed some fun $1 spot items from Target, some fabric buttons from JoAnnes and some twine from The Twinery and can't wait to get my challenge game on! 

Did you hear??? The Broncos are going to the Super Bowl. Well living in Colorado there is no way you can not know about this news. These are some printables I created for D & P Celebrations for our local friends who will be hosting parties and cheering on the ol' Orange and Blue on February 2014!

Is it Spring yet is it Spring yet??? Seriously....I am SO tired of the cold and snow already! While at Target I grabbed some of this cute 8" x 8" pattern paper, buttons and flag pins in fun bright and cheery colors (found in the dollar spot hooray) to go along with some NEW die cut cards I will be putting in the shop soon. Can't wait to play and make some fun festive cards!!! 

That's about it for this week! Have a wonderful weekend friends!! 

DFTBA, 

PS