A Piece of Cake!

March 24, 2009

A Piece of Cake!

When I saw the above stamp, Cake Stack D2284, I immediately thought Inchies, and that is what I did the minute it arrived. Here's the result.

1. The image was stamped using Brilliance Galaxy Gold on Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Super Smooth cardstock. I used Twinkling H2O's to paint the cakes. I frosted them with Gesso and used Glossy Accents to highlight the fruit and heart. Added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the Gesso with the strawberry, and tossed some little Red Rocketts into the Gesso on the top cake too. I trimmed around them and used 3D Pop Up Dots to mount them on the die cuts made below.

2. The smallest Spellbinder Large Square Die was used with Curious Ice Gold text weight paper that had been put through the Cuttlebug for cutting and embossing.

3. The Vintage Cuttlebug die shown was used with Stardream Metallic Bronze text weight paper. They were assembled as shown.

4. The background on the bottom half of the card was created using Brilliance Red Rocket pigment ink on Swirl Background L2025, and then heat embossed after applying Clear Embossing Powder. It was trimmed to 3.25"x 4.0".

5. The top portion of the background is just regular Curious Ice Gold Text weight paper trimmed to 2"x4.0". I taped the bottom and tops together and mounted them on Stardream Metallic Bronze 4.25"x5.5". The May Arts ribbon was taped on the back and mounted across and behind as shown. The bow is tied using the Martha Stewart technique and was attached last.

6. I had a 50% off coupon when I was wondering through Michaels with a friend. My friend said, oh, I love my Martha Stewart Circle Maker, it is just great. So I bought it and used it for the first time to make the circles for this card. It really was pretty handy. I used the Curious Ice Gold and Bronze, and Stardream Jupiter. The size was increased 1/8" for each circle. The white dots around the tag are Gesso. Gotta love that stuff.

7. The words are from Sweet Hearts 3109 XL and were stamped with Brilliance Pearlescent Chocolate. I used my heat gun to dry it quickly.

8. Mark Richards Crystal Stickers Ruby Elements were used for the bling.

Hope you enjoyed my card and thanks for stopping by to look and share.

Shirley