A slice of cake

It’s Friday and time for another Weekend Sketch from Beate! My mom finally came home from Alaska on business late last night and took a very eager Ava to her house to play this afternoon. My mom left on Sunday and we had to explain that she needed to sleep 5 times before Grandma would be home. Of course she would say “Im tired, I need to sleep” hoping that it would speed up time. So at long last they were reunited! :)  And with Audrey napping I got to play!

Can I just say how much I LOVE this set???? I think you might be able to tell, I’ve been using it a lot lately! Who could have thought that cake would be so much fun or so versatile!? I made a fantastic (If I say so myself) pattern on this card with the scrolling sentiment box. LOVE IT!!!

This is a ‘Z’ fold card and Beate has a tutorial on her blog, so I wont get into the details of cutting. But I’ll share the decoration!

1. I used pretty in pink as the card base and on the left side flap I stamped a pattern with the scrolling sentiment box in pretty in pink ink.
2. Then I cut a piece of papertrey’s white CS to 2.5 x 3 and stamped the cake layers in creamy caramel. Then I inked up the icing with rose red and chocolate chip and stamped accordingly.
3. For the flowers on the cake I stamped in white craft ink then covered it in clear EP and heat set it. The leaves are in almost artichoke.
4. The centers of the flowers on the cake have small pink swarovski crystal set in them with glue dots.
5. On the top right and bottom left I stamped the small flowers again in pretty in pink ink, and leaves in almost artichoke. I dotted the middle of the flowers with pink liquid pearls.
6. And then I stamped the “Wish” in chocolate chip ink on the bottom right corner and mounted it on a piece of chocolate chip CS cut to 2 3/4 x 3 1/4 and set it aside to dry.
7. Using the large flower I stamped a wavy pattern on the right side of the card with pretty in pink ink.
8. I then used my paper piercing tool to make holes and feed rhinestone brads in the center.
9. Next I used my photo corners punch to punch out two sets in chocolate chip and pretty in pink CS and layered them. Then I stamped the small flowers in pretty in pink ink onto the pink layer. I adhered this to the bottom right of the card.
10. Finally I adhered the layered cake image to the card with some snail adhesive.

I just really love this set, it makes things so, so pretty! And hopefully if I have energy after hitting the eliptical machine tonight I can put together my project idea using this set! Lets just say it involves a special little tool that I finally used and realized how awesome it is! (No, not the ever popular nestabilities…..Im waiting for those to be in stock at PTI)

The DEETS:

Stamps: Piece of cake-papertrey
CS- pretty in pink, chocolate chip-SU white- papertrey
Ink: creamy caramel, pretty in pink, always artichoke-SU
Accessories: Paper piercing tool, rhinestone brads, liquid pearls, swarovski crystals, SU markers in rose red and chocolate chip, photo corners punch.

Hello Allison, its been a few days!

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