This Piece of Cake Tutorial has several steps, but is a easy as pie!
You can use it as a box to fill with goodies, or seal it shut and put it on a shelf as delicious eye candy.
MATERIALS
- White card stock
- Cake Box Template by Mirkwood Designs
- Scissors
- Bone Folder
- Ruler
- Ink pads; Versa Magic “Spring Pansy”, “Mango Madness”, “Thatched Straw” and VersaFine “Imperial Purple”
- Clear acrylic block
- Makeup sponge or Finger Dauber
- Layers of Color Belle Brocade art stencil
- Layers of Color Flutterescent art stamp set
- Masking tape
- Glue
- Embellishments of choice (rhinestones, fancy yarn)
- Additional Materials for OPTIONAL Paper Doily:
- Scallop Edge decorative scissors
- Layers of Color Vintage Medallion art stencil
Print Cake Box Template from Mirkwood Designs on white card stock. Cut out along solid lines. Score along dash lines with a bone folder.
My favorite tools to use with LOC art stencils are make up sponges and Tsukineko’s Finger Daubers. I use Tsukineko ink exclusively as I find them to be the highest quality archival inks in a marvelous range of desirable colors.
Add ink in a graded shade to the sides of the cake pattern. I started with Thatched Straw then added Mango Madness along one edge.
Using Layers of Color Belle Brocade art stencil, masking tape off the section of the stencil that you don’t want to use. Here I’m using only the decorative border edge. Place it over the center of the inked sides and sponge Spring Pansy over the stencil. Before removing it, also sponge Imperial Purple just along the top edge, as shown in the photo.
This will give the design graduated color.
Repeat on all three sides. Make sure that the designs all face the center triangle so that they will be facing the same direction when you fold it into a box.
Ink the triangle sections with a light touch of Mango Madness and then stencil over it with another coat of Mango Madness and Spring Pansy in the center.
Completed decorated cake box template.
Fold and glue the box together. You may choose to leave the top open to fill with goodies. In this case, you may wish to ink the inside as well before folding and adding glue.
To create the butterfly, use Flutterescent butterfly stamped and cut out twice. Notice that the paper is inked first with both yellow and orange. As shown in photograph, use both purples when inking the butterfly stamp. After cutting the butterfly out, ink the back with the lighter purple, Spring Pansy.
Decorate your piece of cake with bling and fancy yarn.
To make the paper doily, sponge both purple inks over Vintage Medallion art stencil on white card stock. Then cut it out using scallop edge decorative scissors.
Enjoy your piece of cake!
Years ago, I started designing rubber stamps for myself when I couldn’t find the stamps I desired. It became a profession when a friend suggested I offer my designs to a local rubber stamp company. My favorite personal style didn’t match the owner’s so I created The Snappy Art Stamps line which became a hit. Eventually, I decided to start my own stamp business to offer those stamp designs that I craved as a stamper. I named it, Signature Line because it’s as personal to me as my signature. Now, not only am I excited to have this business and offer them to you, but I can hardly wait to get into the studio and play with each new set that gets in my hands!