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! 

Let her eat cake!

Happy Friday, all!

I'm just popping in with a card I'd made for the recent Paper Crafts call... I love the vintage-poster feel of it, and how I have no idea what to do with it now, since no one I know is having a 16th birthday anytime soon :)

(sooo, on that note, if anyone needs a very girly 16th birthday card, let me know and I'll pop it in the mail for you.)

I used mostly CSS goodies on this card, save the hero arts "radiant banner" background.  I die-cut the cake die into my main panel and stamped the cake and stand into the opening, but then stamped the candles, and "sweet 16" (from "cake decorating too") onto the raised panel.  I love this cake image (from "cake decorating") - you can mix and match so many elements to change the look of it (here, I stamped the little rosette buds and the draped icing images to make it more girly, but the possibilities are almost endless.)  I colored it with 3 different shades of pink, and stamped the sunburst with a fourth pink color - because sometimes, too much of a good thing is a g-o-o-d thing.

The banner image is from the same "radiant banner" stamp - I stamped it again onto white card-stock and cut it out.  I adhered it slightly off to the side (in keeping with my vintage-poster feel... but maybe it just looks lopsided to you? hee.)

I have a few more "rejects" to share with you next week, and the one that got picked up?  You'll have to wait until next year to see it in print *wink*

Thanks for popping by!