When I was at Michaels this past week, I kept passing by these delightful cake stickers by Martha Stewart Crafts. The price here- 6.99! Not like I'd buy a sticker without trying to recreate it first, but still.
This meant that I had a challenge for myself- to make a tiered cake. I thought about doing it all free-hand. Instead, I started with some oval dies. I cut out 3 ovals in confetti white paper. To make them cake-like, I snipped off a 1/4'' from each side. Next, I took a bigger oval, and used it to trace a curved shadow at the top of each layer. I also outlined each layer with the grey marker while I was at it. I attached the 3 tiers, then punched out some flowers from this year's punch kit. I sponged them to make them a little darker than the cool caribbean scalloped plate I had set the cake on. Then, I attached some gelly gems in the centers. The card base was made using a regular card base and the largest circle nestability. When doing that, be sure to not completely have the die cut on the paper, you need to have some over the fold so that you don't just end up with 2 circles. The scalloped layer is the largest scalloped circle nestability, so if you were to turn the card over, you'd see that this layer is larger than the actual card.
Supplies:
Stamps: none!
Ink: Cool Caribbean
Paper: Confetti White, White, Cool Caribbean, Bazzill
Accessories: Circle and Oval nestabilities, trio of flowers punch, gelly gems, pop dots, cool grey marker
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2007 GMT Views: 638
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Registered: October 31, 2006 Location: Hanover, Pa. (which is about 10 mile from Gettysburg, Pa. Posts: 1058
Sun, Oct 21, 2007 @ 12:48 PM
I absolutely love the way you created this tiered cake. You are to be commended for this. I think you did a great job, and your cake has to be much better than Martha Stewart! I put this into my favs. Will definitely saving and making this one. I JUST LOVE IT!!!!! I send about 25 ro 35 birthday cards a month for the Card Ministry at my church, and always looking for new and different cards.
Registered: April 25, 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 10947
Sun, Oct 21, 2007 @ 1:14 PM
I love it too! Just a question - including your time, it probably is now worth WAY more than $6.99 right? (I certainly think so!) Beautiful job - your work is always so inspiring!
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