There are two celebratory challenges running right now, and I pulled out a die I've never used to create a couple of birthday cards for them. AAA Card Challenges is celebrating their 200th challenge (Congrats! That's a lot of challenges!), and Seize the Birthday is asking for cakes! I was happy to oblige.
I wanted to use pink with chocolate cake for one of my cards but also die cut some portions of the cakes in metallic and shimmer papers, being unsure of what I'd want in the way of decorations. In the end I had enough pieces to create two cards--one definitely feminine and another that could work for both men and women.
I started with a pre-embossed piece I found in my collection of ready-to-use pieces and die cut it with one of the tags in Gina K's "Tag Trio." It turned out to be a perfect size for the cake, but I ended up deciding it required a 5X7 format which I don't typically make.
You can see the white embossed pattern on the tag. I have no idea what I used to create that piece, but I'd like to locate it. The fun cake is My Favorite Things "Birthday Cake" die, and although I've never used it before, it must already be retired as I couldn't find it on the MFT site.
For the second cake, I chose one of The Greetery's "Crimped Frames." I love the gold and silver with the chocolate cake.
The only change for the second card was to emboss the sentiment from Papertrey Ink's "Banner Sentiments" in gold.
On both cards, I inlaid the circles on one layer of the cake. On the pink card, I used the same pink shimmer paper as the other "frosting" layers. On this card, I had some white shimmer circles and liked those better than either of the glittery decorations.
It's always a good idea to have a few birthday cards in my stash. And I'm quite sure I'll find just the right recipients for these. I'm also sending these cards to the October NBUS Challenge. I'm so relieved to have finally gotten around to using this fun die. It certainly won't be the last time!
