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