Mint Chocolate Cake

Here's my card for today's SCS clean and simple challenge. This week's theme was polka dots. I went with the polka dotted pattern in the Mint Motif Cake Shoppe and Cake Shoppe Too! sets available from i {heart} papers. I got to spend some time with Mint Motif designer Kimberly Crawford last week at CHA--can't wait to see what else she has planned for the Mint Motif line!

I made a double layered chocolate cake by combining some of the cake pieces from the Cake Shoppe set. I stamped in Rich Cocoa ink on a dark brown paper for a nice tone-on-tone look, then cut out the stamped image. I added the candle at the top, highlighted with a Yellow Stickle-d flame. The "happy birthday" sentiment from the Cake Shoppe Too! set completed the image panel.

I layered the cake panel on a blue panel, then set it on a 4 1/4" square kraft card base. A strip of brown faux suede ribbon runs along the bottom of the image, dressed up just a bit with a brown button with a twine bow. I was trying to keep the card sort of masculine . . .

Materials Used:

from i {heart} papers: Mint Motif Cake Shoppe and Cake Shoppe Too! stamp sets, Memento Rich Cocoa ink, Couture Cardstock medium weight white Copic blending cardstock, Ranger Yellow Stickles, Copic markers (BG10, Y11), May Arts brown faux suede ribbon

other: Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, and Crumb Cake cardstock (Stampin' Up!); brown button, twine (Papertrey Ink); foam tape