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Creating Dimensional Birthday Cake Frosting

Creating Dimensional Birthday Cake Frosting

Hi there, friends! Did you know that September is the busiest birth month in the United States? Specifically, September 9th is the most popular day for singing that very first Happy Birthday tune (Time). Worldwide the busiest month varies year to year, but it generally falls within July, August or September. Given that, I'm a thinkin' I best get crackin' on a few birthday cards!

Create today's card by first piecing together a rainbow base on an A2 Dove White panel with long 1/4" strips of Azalea, Papaya, Kiwi, Paradise and Amethyst. Adhere in place with Precision Glue and then trim the long strips to fit from the back.

Die cut Dancing Music Notes in Dove White and trim it down just enough to create a rainbow border. Adhere music panel flat over colorful base.

Stamp the Color Layering Birthday Cake in Soft Vanilla for the cake itself and any very light shade of ink for the frosting. It will only be used as a guildline. I used Soft Yellow. Die cut and trim off candle flush. Then coat frosting with Crystal Clear Lacquer. Layer on White Puff embossing powder while lacquer is wet and immediately heat with an embossing heat tool. The combo will puff and create a frosting like appearance. Add a second layer of lacquer and embossing powder to outer edge of slice for additional dimension.

Crystal Clear Lacquer and White Puff embossing powder can be purchased together in our Snow & Froth Technique Kit.

Poke candle, stamped in Rose Madder, Butter Bar and Soft Cantaloupe into still warm lacquer. Add a drop of glue midway up the back of the candle for security. Adhere slice over Pitch Black circle and pop on a white detail embossed sentiment.

TIP: The background of this project is a great scrap buster! Imagine all of the color combos you could create!

Happy crafting!

Jul 26, 2019

I’m a September baby but in our family October is the big month for birthdays – 12 of them but several friends. Love this cheerful card and the fact that it can work as either a feminine or masculine card. I definitely need to order that dancing notes cover plate. It can be so hard to tell what something it actually going to look like when all you see is a picture of the die itself but, after seeing how you used it here, I have sooo many ideas for using this die. Hadn’t thought about using this icing technique but I plan to give it a try soon. Thanks for the inspiration!

Michele W
Jul 22, 2019

I have the die, but this is a new idea on using it. Thanks for sharing!

Cynthia Faulkner
Jul 21, 2019

What a yummy card, thanks for sharing!

Donna Whitten
Jul 21, 2019

This cake looks delicious! Fabulous technique on icing, cant qait to try it! Tyfs

Darlene De Sario
Jul 20, 2019

what a fun and cool looking card. That cake looks good enough to eat!!

Karen Nelson
Jul 19, 2019

Thought this piece was REAL! This is great!

Anne
Jul 19, 2019

So fun — and as you said a great way to use up all those pesky scraps. It’s nice to see your dies in action. The music die looks so bright and colorful with the peak of color. Thanks for sharing!!

Melissa K
Jul 19, 2019

Sweet! I can almost taste the frosting on the cake. Just love it!

Felicia C
Jul 19, 2019

Amazing!!!!

Kirsty
Jul 18, 2019

What a fun card! Great way to use the white puff embossing powder from the August 2019 MMH kit for the frosting. Don’t have the cake stamp and die, but definitely will try this with my cupcake stamp and die. Thanks for the inspiration!

Karen F.

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