Cake is the answer – who cares what the question is! Right, lol?!? My favorite is COSTCO chocolate with chocolate frosting. I can lose my MIND around COSTCO chocolate cake. It’s a good thing I don’t encounter it very often now that I am retired! 🙂 Do you have a favorite?
Measurements:
- White Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
- Petal Pink Card Stock Layer 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″
- Lovely Lipstick Card Stock Layer 3 3/4″ x 4 3/4″
- 3 DSP Rectangles 3 5/8″ x 1 1/2″
Details:
- Today’s project was built around this darling pattern paper (or DSP) Best Dressed from Stampin’ Up!. I love that one side of the DSP coordinates with the Dressed to Impress stamp set and that the reverse prints coordinate with the Beautiful Friendship stamp set.
- Lovely Lipstick is the color that jumped out at me so I used it on the birthday cake, part of the sentiment and for the beautiful bow as well.
- I have to admit struggling with using this cake image from the Piece of Cake stamp set. I kept stamping in with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and then coloring it, using different combinations of colors each time. That’s when I realized that the image would be best stamped in a colored ink and voila! Love it! (Is it just me or does the cake stamp look like two macarons stacked one on top of the other?)
- Do you recognize the ribbon I used? No? Well, that’s because the ribbon was originally WHITE and I colored it with my Dark Lovely Lipstick Stampin’ Blend alcohol marker! It’s a trick I learned long ago but with re-inker as the coloring agent. I MUCH prefer the alcohol marker method as it’s not quite as messy and dries almost instantly. The bit of ribbon I used here was from a product share I participated in and I definitely want to purchase a whole roll of this lovely ribbon – it’s a very nice width and SO easy to color! (If you want some as well, get it ordered pronto as it’s already on backorder and there’s always a chance it could sell out, it’s been very popular)
- Don’t you just love the sentiment? I wanted it to stand out so I stamped it in Lovely Lipstick and then cut it out and adhered it at a candy angle. Who CARES what the question is?!? Makes me giggle every time I read it!
- I stamped the cake stand in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and then colored it in using a combination of COPIC and Shin-Han markers in very soft gray tones. I added shading with the darker color. The floral cake topper (which I thought coordinated very nicely with the floral pattern paper) was colored with a combination of Stampin’ Blends and Stampin’ Write Markers and then fussy cut it out. All three pieces were popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals onto a die cut scalloped rectangle, also popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- To create the bow, after coloring it with my Stampin’ Blend marker, I wrapped it around three of my fingers, scrunched it up in the middle, and then wound another smaller piece of ribbon around it and pulled it tight into a knot. Super easy to do and makes quite an impression! Of course, it will get a bit smushed when put into an envelope, but even smushed, I think it will look quite lovely.
- I used more sentiments from the same stamp set, as well as a heart, for the card inside and framed them out in Petal Pink.
Thank you to Ms. Leanne over at The Paper Players for her delightful sketch this week. I had SO much fun playing along!
Have a great rest of your week!
Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):
Card Stock: Lovely Lipstick and Petal Pink; Neenah Solar White Classic Crest 80# and 110#
DSP: Best Dressed
Specialty Paper: None
Ink: Lovely Lipstick; Versamark Onyx Black & Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps: Piece of Cake
Alcohol Markers: Light & Dark Lovely Lipstick, Light Old Olive, Light Petal Pink, COPIC C00 & Shin-Han Twin Touch CG1
Dies: Stitched So Sweetly, Stitched Rectangle and Envelope Die (retired)
Tools: Big Shot, Stampin’ Trimmer (both retired); Cake Builder Punch, Old Olive and Petal Pink Stampin’ Markers
Embellishments: Whisper White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon; Wink of Stella
Other: Whisper White Envelope
Hi Shannon,
I just love your gorgeous card and great take on the sketch. The papers and colors are pretty, but in my book, the ribbon takes the cake! That seam binding ribbon is the best!
Such a pretty card and thanks for the hint for coloring the ribbon, great tip!
Sweet card! Love the DSP. Great interpretation the sketch.
This turned out so gorgeous with all the colors in the dsp and ribbon! Stamping the cake in red was a great choice, it’s so cohesive with the rest of the card. And of course, the sentiment is fabulous! My big weakness is big, dense chocolate chip cookies, I can go crazy over those LOL! Thanks for sharing with The Paper Players this week!
Just delightful! I think this is the cutest set of sentiments to go with this cake image, and your background papers are subtle enough to keep the cake at the forefront! The ribbon….swooon….I love me some scrunchy, dyed-to-order ribbon! Beautiful! Thanks for playing with my sketch this week at the Paper Players!
Oh wow – this is so pretty and so FUN! YES – it does look like two stacked macarons! LOL! I love the ribbon – perfectly colored and wrapped. And the sentiment – yep. Cake is ALWAYS the right answer! Thanks for sharing it with us this week at The Paper Players!
Wow Shannon,
You blow my mind with your pink ribbon 🎀 that was just totally beautiful and ingenious I love it the color is gorgeous you are so a inspiration .
Thank you for sharing .💐💐❤️💗.
Maria
Gorgeous card, Shannon! Wow! Thank you so much for joining us over at The Paper Players.