Summer is almost over but I still have a few more birthdays and weddings to attend. What I love about these events are the cakes, especially layered ones! 
I came across a tutorial on this technique while feeding my addiction to YouTube. 
Using paper scraps (who doesn't have a mountain of these), you can cut rectangles to put together into a layered cake. 
Start with a sketch, on cardstock, of the cake that will fit your card and be the base of your card creation. 


Step two is to cut rectangle shapes from various paper scraps to fit the layered shapes in your sketch. 





Step three is to adhere the layers to the sketch. You can choose to outline each layer for a little more  emphasis. 

The final steps are to cut out the cake and emboss it with a layer of regular or ultra high clear, glitter or any other delicious Wow embossing powder to give this cake it's body and luster. 
The mini cakes are great for cards, scrapbook pages or gift tags.







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 Today I am going to share with you a quick little project I did to brighten up a household plant. Now for those that know me I use to be terrible with household plants. I can grow just about anything outside, but for some reason I typically have a black thumb when it comes to inside plants. But recently that has all changed...I am actually going on four years now of having the same household plants. Shocker I know!! The plant in this picture was recently re-potted into this larger container and so I wanted to dress it up a bit. I found these awesome butterfly spikes and decided to emboss them and put in the pot.

It was super easy to give them just a little color...all I did was cover them with embossing ink, cover them in embossing powder, tap off the extra embossing powder, and then heat them up! For my colors I used Sierra Sunrise, Angel Wings, and the new Vodka Sparkle (bottom picture) from the G…