I had a thin strip of the pretty blue and white flowered patterned paper leftover from a previous card and decided to use it on another card instead of throwing it away. I searched through the same 6×6 paper pad to find a coordinating paper. A rectangle was cut down using a stitched rectangle die.
I decided to use my new Crafter’s Companion Distress Border die. I determined where to place it so that it would be covered up by the patterned paper strip and ran it through the Gemini FoilPress with gold foil. I love the way it turned out. The strip of patterned paper was also cut using a stitched rectangle die. Simon Says Stamp Big Mama Foam Tape was added to the back and it was adhered to the left of the foiled distress border.
For the focal image I decided to use the Spellbinders Celebrate With Cake die. Each layer of the cake was cut from a scrap of navy cardstock and the background die was used to cut gold mirror cardstock and adhered it behind the navy cake layers with the patterns cut out. It was pretty, but I decided to cut the detailed layers from gold mirror cardstock that had double-sided tape added to the back and inlay the pieced into the navy layers. I liked that much better.
The cake stand, flowers, and leaves of the die set were also cut from gold mirror cardstock. Simon Says Stamp Big Mama Foam Tape was added to the back of the cake stand, cake layers, and flowers and then each was adhered to the blue patterned paper.
The sentiment was cut from gold mirror cardstock and adhered below the cake with liquid glue. Copic markers were used to add a little dimension to the cake layers.
At the last minute I decided to add a thin strip of navy blue cardstock between the flower patterned paper and the foiled border.
PRODUCTS USED:
- Spellbinders Celebrate With Cake Die
- Penny Black Doodles Thin
- Crafter’s Companion Distress Border FoilPress Die
- Pink Paislee Choose Happy Indigo & Ivy Cardstock
- Navy Cardstock From Stash
- Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
- Paper Accents Gold Mirror Cardstock
- Copic Markers: B39 and B34
- Be Creative Double-Sided Tape
- Simon Says Stamp Big Mama Foam Tape
- My Favorite Things A2 Rectangle Die
- Blue Sequin from Stash
- Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
- Kokuyo Dotliner Long Adhesive