Sunday, 31 May 2026

Let's Eat Cake

Hello
This month at A Colorful Life Designs, some of the designs are all about cake, party and balloons.
I decided to combine 2 of the new stencils called:

So, here's what I did to create my card.
  • I began by die cutting a piece of white cardstock with the Postage Collage Die.  
  • I masked off the squares and then placed the STAR STREAMERS stencil over that and inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
  • I used the ink left on my blending brush and added some ink to better define the squares of the die.
  • I placed the LAYERED CELEBRATION CAKE stencil over another piece of white cardstock and inked that with some Aged Mahogany and some Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide inks.  I used Lumberjack plaid for the candles, Black Soot for the base and some Mustard Seed for the flames.
  • Next, I fussy cut the cake out and set it aside.
  • I stamped the sentiment in the bottom corner of my die cut postage card front than glued it onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
  • I used some foam tape to pop the cake up over the background.

Here are the stencils I used:


LAYERED CELEBRATION CAKE

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Little Red Wagon- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG
Seize the Birthday- SWEET TREATS
Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES
Just Us Girls- ANYTHING STENCILED GOES

Supplies
Stamp- Handmade Essentials (SBC)
Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair
Paper- Solar White
Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;
Postage Collage die (Waffle Flower); foam tape (Dollar Store)

8 comments:

The Crafty Den said...

What a fun birthday card. Your stencilled background is fantastic and I love the yummy cake. Thanks for sharing with us at Just Us Girls challenge. Hugs, Denise x

Pat said...

I love the clever masking and the added star streamers stencilling makes a great background within the postage collage die cut, and the added fun stencilled cake added over the top goes beautifully...a wonderful card Karen. x

Brenda said...

What a fun background for your lovely card. Great idea to use the postage collage die. Thanks so much for joining us at Little Red Wagon Challenge!

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

What a great celebratory card. x

Cathy said...

Such a fun and striking card, gorgeous stencilling. Thankyou for playing along at Seize the Birthday, Cathy x

ElizStewart said...

Karen... this is just too much FUN! Just love the pop effect... thanks so much for sharing this wonderful card with Just Us Girls.

Nancy said...

Such a fun card, Karen! I love the size of the cake. Do you know I think you could make a hamburger with this stencil, just thought it would be super fun too. Thanks for joining us at Seize the Birthday and for using our Topping.

shirley-bee said...

Ooh, this looks so yummy, Karen! (And I agree with Nancy, you could turn this stencil into a burger.)
Thanks for playing along with my Sweet Treats theme at Seize The Birthday.