Aloha, all!
Yesterday I shared the front of the card that I made for our friend, Marian’s, 90th Birthday. Today I’d like to share what I did with the inside.
For starters, I used the Sizzix Pop Up Three Tier Cake die to make this simple but lovely cake, featuring the Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper.
The Sizzix Die cuts one candle for the cake, but I just put a couple of scraps of paper over the candle part of the die and cut two more for the top. Actually, I had envisioned myself making NINETY such candles and affixing them to the cake. But I could see right away that that was going to be (1) hard work (which I shouldn’t shirk, of course) but (2) kind of sloppy looking. Can’t have that!
But I definitely could STAMP that many candles! That’s what’s on the strip on each side of the inside of the card, on both the top and the bottom. Using the candle stamp from the set, On a Pedestal, I stamped 90 candles in a variety of colors–Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry and Melon Mambo, mostly the former two colors. But the Melon Mambo made a nice accent.
A couple of comments about the Three Tier Cake Die. The instructions call for 7/8" wide strips of paper to go around each layer. I’ve found it a lot easier to use 1" wide strips when I’m making this as a Three Tier cake. When you close the card, it always folds very neatly AND pops up very neatly. When I’ve used the 7/8" wide strips, sometimes when it pops up, the card stock that makes up the top of the layer pops up over the edges of the strips. Another thing that I’ve been doing with this die, no matter how fancy I might want to make the tiers, is to fold the card closed as I make each tier and before I start decorating. Trying to make these pop up dies do too much at once is a bit of a challenge.
Tomorrow we’ll look at those medallions on either side of the cake!
