A Floral Cake Popup Card (a bou-cake!)
By Janet Katz
There are still several days left to enter our Floral Fantasy Challenge for the month of May. Just post your card using at least one Poppystamps die or stamp and you have a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to our online store.
The brand new Floral Cake Popup Easel die set has tremendous value. Just look at everything you get in the die set:
- 2 cakes
- 1 cake background
- 1 cake pop up easel
- 2 icing ribbons (not shown here)
- 15 individual flowers
- 5 individual petals
- 3 flower centers
- 9 different leaves
- 2 candles (not shown here)
And if you want even more icing, you can purchase the Layer Cake Drip Icing dies (seen here in pink). If you enjoy paper piecing like I do, this is like having your cake and eating it too (okay, I couldn't resist).
I decided I wanted to make a chocolate cake and then add both icing and a monochromatic burst of flowers. I chose my favorite brown cardstock and a pretty pink for the icing. Then I chose three shades of a reddish-purple 80lb cardstock (like an orchid color), and cut out a lot of flowers. It didn't take long as the individual dies have 4-8 flowers on them. Next I went to my color wheel to choose the complementary yellow-green shade in two colors of cardstock. Again, I made just a few cuts and I had a lot of leaves to choose from.
I did some flower shaping with a flower-shaping tool I borrowed from a friend. This curled the leaves and the flower into either a concave or convex shape and gave me lots of extra dimension. I first glued the pink icing onto the cakes, then adhered the two cakes onto the kraft background with foam adhesive. I created many of the flowers from 2 die cuts stacked on top of each other to make a flower with 7 or 8 petals. I added leaves as I went, and finished by tucking several of them underneath flowers with just a dot of glue to hold them in place.
Next, I used the Say It Big clear stamp and die set and stamped my sentiment onto a scrap of orchid cardstock with Versamark, and heat embossed with ultra fine gold embossing powder. I used the matching die to cut it out. I mounted the sentiment on the bottom cake with foam adhesive. Next I die cut my easel from a very pale, textured vanilla cardstock. I adhered the attaching flap to the back of the kraft background about halfway down. I had plenty of flowers and leaves left over so I added a few to the base of the easel to give the cake portion something to lean against. Lastly, I added Pastel and Autumn themed Fairy Jewels in pink, maroon and purple to the flower centers.
Now it's time for you to show us what you can do with some flowers. Enter the challenge today!
Supplies
CB510 Say It Big clear stamp and die set
JWL002 Pastel Jewels
JWL004 Autumn Fairy Jewels
2469 Floral Cake Pop Up Easel craft die
2466 Layer Cake Drip Icing craft die
Comments
Gorgeous, I adore the colours you've used for the florals!
Hi Janet, This cake card is stunning and the colours are beautiful.
Lots of love from Patricia xx