Today’s Savvy Saturday features the recipe for my cake. A good mom lets you lick the beaters, a great mom turns off the mixer first. That one always cracks me up.  Anyway, on to the cake:

I started with a set of round boxes from Darice. I tossed aside the lids; I decided not to use them. I painted the set, sides and bottom, with white acrylic paint, then covered that with Pearl Ranger Paint Dabber, with a brush not the dabber tip.

To make the flowers, I used cardstock from WorldWin: Deep, Dark, Medium and Light Lovely Lilac ColorMates. I used the Flower Creations, Flower Creations 2 and Flower Creations Three Die Templates. I cut and embossed each Die Template from the four colors of cardtsock.  For the Flower Creations Three Die Template, I separated out each die and set them on the new Magnetic Spacer Plate.

When all the flowers were cut and embossed, I airbrushed them with a few Copic Marker colors (some smooth color, some splattered color).  I used newspaper to protect the table and repositionable adhesive to keep the flowers in place. I wiped on some white Glimmer Chalk from Craf-T Products to add sheen to the flower petals.  I added detail to the center of the smaller flowers with a Lavender Atyou Spica pen.

I assembled the flowers, each different, with a long brad. If you feel the flowers are looking a little flat against the cake, curl the petals up or down, to give them a little bulk, or add some dimensional adhesive dots between the flower layers. It’s all very subtle but it makes a difference once the cake is assembled.

To make the frosting swags, I assembled 3 sets of ovals, mixing and matching from the
Clasic Ovals, plain and scalloped.  I needed 3 of each size, so I taped them to a piece of scrap paper. The tape keeps them in place and I won’t have to realign them once I get the inside die template centered. Then I can cut and emboss as many as I need, all the same.  I used the Medium Lovely Lilac paper.  The ovals were then cut in half, the long way.

Each strip of paper for the ribbon on the bottoms of the cake layers was embossed in the Wizard using a Fiskars Texture Plate and the blue mat from the Charm Embossing Kit.

On the ribbon and swags, I rubbed White Sparkle Luster Rub-ons from Craf-T Products.  It added some extra highlight to the embossed areas.

We’re working with the boxes turned upside down, so the bottom of the box becomes the top.  I glued the embossed ribbon to the bottom edge of each layer.  I secured the swag ends with a brad, using a Japanese hole punch to make a small hole through the paper and box.  I punched more small holes in each layer for the flowers on the sides and secured the brads from the inside.  The flowers on the top are attached to a small triangle of paper.

As suggested in the comments the other day, the cake can be made for any occasion, with any shaped box. What’s the best part?  No dirty dishes! I’d love to see your creations, give us a link in the comments!  And don’t forget to rate the blog entries by clicking on the stars below.

Thanks for cookin’ up some fun with me, Beth!!!

Tags: Beth Art, Cake, Embossing, Nestabilities®, S4-072 Flower Creations, S4-109 Flower Creations Three, S4-110 Classic Ovals LG, S4-111 Classic Scalloped Ovals SM, S4-112 Classic Ovals SM, S4-113 Classic Scalloped Ovals LG

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