Sliding Tiered Wedding Cake

Here's the third of the four wedding cards I made this summer. Been wanting to try the sliding tiered card again, and thought it might make a neat wedding cake card. The first time I tried this type of card, I struggled with the measurements and promised myself  I would make a cutfile for it in Design Studio. The original design and assembly instructions for this card by Heather Summers are over at Splitcoast Stampers.

For my wedding cake, I altered the size of the card and layers from the original so it would look more like a cake. The cutfile I created in Design Studio uses different sized rectangles with slits for the sliders from the George cartridge. The best part for me is, no more measuring and cutting errors!

Here's what the card looks like when you pull up on the hearts at the top of the cake:

Before assembling, I embossed the layers using Cuttlebug's Floral Fantasy and Swirls folders.
For the embellishments on the cake, I used ovals and rectangles from the George cartridge welded in Design Studio for the frosting, and welded hearts from the Sweethearts cartridge for the cake topper. Monogram was designed in Printshop using Cotillian font, then rendered to a cutfile with shadow in Make the Cut.

Fancy swirls are from the Straight from the Nest cartridge, and tiny scattered blossoms were cut using a Kikyo flower punch from Carl.
Finally, I needed a place to add my sentiment, so I decided to add a cake plate which opens up to a card:

Again, ovals and rectangles from the George cartridge were used to create this, which I attached to the back of the bottom tier of the cake. Really had fun putting this together...it doesn't always happen, but I just love when something turns out just as I had imagined!

Berry Sweet!

Have you met Berry Puppy? I recently came across this cute little puppy from San-X for the first time while browsing at a Morning Glory shop near my home. I found out later that she's actually been around for almost 3 years now, and quite a hit in Japan. Thinking she'd be cute to use on a birthday card for my niece, I bought a couple Berry Puppy notepads and stationery. Then when I got home, I traced her by hand, scanned my traced image and converted it into a cutfile using MTC.

I decided to use my Berry Puppy to make my first triple tiered slider card. First saw this type of card in my Annie's Attic Interactive Cards book, but found the instructions to be too confusing and difficult to follow. Then a few months ago, I saw this card again, created and shared by my very creative blogging friend Michele, on her blog, My Simple Crafts. Loved how Michele's cards turned out, and I'm so grateful that she shared the link for a much simpler tutorial by Heather Summers over at Splitcoast Stampers.

For my card, I changed the dimensions of Heather's original card just a bit to make the upper two tiers smaller so it would look more like a three tiered cake. Then instead of the tab pull Heather used at the top of the card, I glued candles onto a trimmed circle as my pull.  I used printed cardstock from DCWV for my cake layers...I liked that the borders on the paper meant less embellishing on my part except on the top layer where I used a Martha Stewart Daisy edge punch. Nestabilities Labels Four dies were used for the greetings.

Lastly, I added a piece of cardstock folded in half behind the bottom tier so my card would also open like a traditional card where I could add  a birthday sentiment and sign our names.

Pretty much happy with how this turned out, but will definitely have to make a cutfile for this in Design Studio on my next attempt. I spent too much time measuring, and cutting and scoring (and wasting paper!) this first time around...better to let my Cricut do the cutting next time!