Showing posts with label Easel card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easel card. Show all posts
It's spring (summer here in Texas) and love is in the air. It's my turn on the Poppystamps blog today and I decided I wanted to use Poppystamps Floral Cake Popup Easel dies to make a wedding cake covered in monochromatic flowers, in keeping with the monthly challenge theme of Floral Fantasy. I chose SU's Soft Suede for the chocolate cake and Pink Pirouette for the icing using the Layer Cake Drip Icing dies. Then, I chose three coordinating shades of a reddish-purple: Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry, and Blackberry Bliss, and cut out a lot of flowers. It didn't take long as the individual dies have 4-8 flowers on them. Next, I chose Pear Pizazz and Old Olive for the leaves. Again, I made just a few cuts and I had a lot of leaves to choose from.
I did some flower shaping with a Heartfelt Creations flower-shaping tool set I borrowed from my friend, Julia. This curled the leaves and the flower into either a concave or convex shape and gave me lots of extra dimension. I first glued the pink icing onto the cakes, then adhered the two cakes onto the Crumb Cake background with foam adhesive. I created many of the flowers from 2 die cuts stacked on top of each other to make a flower with 7 or 8 petals. I added leaves as I went, and finished by tucking several of them underneath flowers with just a dot of Bearly Arts glue to hold them in place.
Next, I used Poppystamps Say It Big clear stamp and die set and stamped my sentiment onto a scrap of Sweet Sugarplum cardstock with Versamark, then heat embossed with Ink on 3's Ultra Fine Gold Embossing Powder. I am really loving that stuff. I used the matching die to cut it out. I mounted the sentiment on the bottom cake with foam adhesive. Next I die cut my easel from a pale vanilla Bazzill cardstock I had in my stash. I adhered the attaching flap to the back of the Crumb Cake background about halfway down. I had plenty of flowers and leaves left over so I added a few to the base of the easel to give the cake portion something to lean against.
Lastly, I added Poppystamps Pastel and Autumn themed Fairy Jewels in pink, maroon and purple to the flower centers. This was a time-consuming, paper piecing project but it was a lot of fun.
It's spring (summer here in Texas) and love is in the air. It's my turn on the Poppystamps blog today and I decided I wanted to use Poppystamps Floral Cake Popup Easel dies to make a wedding cake covered in monochromatic flowers, in keeping with the monthly challenge theme of Floral Fantasy. I chose SU's Soft Suede for the chocolate cake and Pink Pirouette for the icing using the Layer Cake Drip Icing dies. Then, I chose three coordinating shades of a reddish-purple: Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry, and Blackberry Bliss, and cut out a lot of flowers. It didn't take long as the individual dies have 4-8 flowers on them. Next, I chose Pear Pizazz and Old Olive for the leaves. Again, I made just a few cuts and I had a lot of leaves to choose from.
I did some flower shaping with a Heartfelt Creations flower-shaping tool set I borrowed from my friend, Julia. This curled the leaves and the flower into either a concave or convex shape and gave me lots of extra dimension. I first glued the pink icing onto the cakes, then adhered the two cakes onto the Crumb Cake background with foam adhesive. I created many of the flowers from 2 die cuts stacked on top of each other to make a flower with 7 or 8 petals. I added leaves as I went, and finished by tucking several of them underneath flowers with just a dot of Bearly Arts glue to hold them in place.
Next, I used Poppystamps Say It Big clear stamp and die set and stamped my sentiment onto a scrap of Sweet Sugarplum cardstock with Versamark, then heat embossed with Ink on 3's Ultra Fine Gold Embossing Powder. I am really loving that stuff. I used the matching die to cut it out. I mounted the sentiment on the bottom cake with foam adhesive. Next I die cut my easel from a pale vanilla Bazzill cardstock I had in my stash. I adhered the attaching flap to the back of the Crumb Cake background about halfway down. I had plenty of flowers and leaves left over so I added a few to the base of the easel to give the cake portion something to lean against.
Lastly, I added Poppystamps Pastel and Autumn themed Fairy Jewels in pink, maroon and purple to the flower centers. This was a time-consuming, paper piecing project but it was a lot of fun.
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