you need cake to make it a party.

Welcome back to another day of CSS inspiration!

I came across this quote by Julia Child and just had to create a whole card & gift box set inspired by it:

"a party without CAKE is just a meeting."

I'm obviously mourning the loss of party season in our home, and with no excuse for baking a cake, I turned my attentions to the paper kind.

The cake decorating and cake dome sets were perfect for highlighting the sentiment that I created and printed on the computer.  But a flat cake would have been so boring...

With just a few strips of patterned paper, I easily created a fun, 3-D cake image.

Here's a close look at the folded tabs that hold it all down.

And what's a birthday without a slice of cake box?  (a meeting, apparently.)  The birthday gift could easily be tucked inside for a very fun set.  I used leafy dies (in the same patterned paper as the 3-d card cake) and created a soft flower by following my own tutorial. (grin.)  I used build-a-flower dies and *this technique* to get 'er done.

yum! 

wishing you some happy.

I'm so thrilled to be showing off Clear and Simple Stamps' new line of canvas bags, and it's the first time the new bow die is making an appearance on my blog.  I love it so.



And, in a bright yellow, it is especially fun and cheerful.  no?  Do you know the trick to crafting a perfect paper bow?  The kind with no creases in it?  Take a dowel or a perfectly round pencil and work the paper in the direction you want it to bend.  Slowly.  You need to break down the paper fibers and make it more pliable.  Works like a charm.



I apparently can't stop using those large stripe images.  I stamped myself a large sheet of stripes in two different blues, and then cut extra tag ends out of each color.  That's what happens when you can't decide which hue to go with for your project.  The sentiment is my new fave.  I love the font.

I hope you like my sunshine-y tags, and be sure to click over and see what the other designers have created for you:  Kim ♥ Lori ♥ CSS blog