Hello! Happy weekend my crafty friends… it’s been a while since I’ve played in a challenge other than Tic Tac Toe Challenge. A few days ago there was a card on Instagram posted by Michelle Ferguson of a cute Ice Cream cone with a cherry on top. Michelle mentioned in the post her card was for the Inspired By Challenge. I clicked the link and was quickly “INSPIRED” (hint, hint) by the source image below:

For my design I stamped images from the Birthday Take The Cake stamp set with my Misti Stamping tool on white cardstock using MFT Black Hybrid Ink.

I picked several Copic markers from my stash to color the cake, cake stand and cherries. I used the coordinating dies to cut the images out with my Gemini Jr., die cutting machine. I love the look of all those beautiful cakes with Fondant icing and fancy decoration. I wanted to create that look on my cake and to make this happen I saw a technique used by Yana Smakula called selective masking. I masked off  part of the cake and heat embossed the leaves details from the MFT Fantasy Florals stamp set with Versamark Ink and Stampendous Detail White embossing powder.

I die cut a panel of white cardstock from the Lil Inker Design Dual Stitched Rectangle Mats ( Lil Inker Design has gone out of business :() and adhered my cake and cake stand with foam squares. The SSS Birthday Messages sentiment was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black Ink and added a few cherries to draw your eyes to the sentiment. I cut the striped background panel from a scrap in my stash with the next size in the die set and attached to an A2 Top Fold Card Base. I hope you like my take on the INSPIRED source.

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Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Ink & Paper Hugs