My father-in-law (FIL) is turning 85 in one week and I wanted to make him a fun shaker card. We share a love of big desserts and little dogs so….<\/p>\n

<\/a>I stamped out six layer cake using The Greeting Farm Layer Cake stamp set<\/a><\/span> with a variety of inks. I experimented with a variety of colors and inks in my stash and ultimately I ended up with a kind of patriotic color scheme that I thought made a hearty masculine cake (one my FIL would appreciate).<\/p>\n

From the top down, I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Blueprint Sketch<\/a><\/span>, then one layer I fussy cut out with an X-Acto knife to make a shaker window, next came a Tsukineko Artnic Baby Blue, followed by an Adirondack Brights pigment ink in Sale Boat Blue<\/span><\/a>. Then I cut out another layer to create a larger shaker window and lastly I added an Adirondack Brights pigment ink in Watermelon<\/a><\/span>. For the cake stand, I used a Lawn Fawn Premium Dye Ink in Hippo. For the two shaker windows, I filled the top one with tiny silver metal hearts and the bottom one with chunky silver glitter and red seed beads.<\/p>\n

To frame out the card front, I used more of the\u00a0Adirondack Brights pigment ink in Watermelon on a die <\/a>cut frame cut from the larger of the Pretty Pink Posh Scalloped Frame Die Set<\/a><\/span>. I liked how repeating that red carried more of the red through the card to balance out all the blue cake layers.<\/p>\n

To add a little more interest and dimension, I re-stamped the dark blue, medium blue and red cake layers and fussy cut them out to pop them up a bit with foam dots. Then to add a little whimsy, I painstakingly fussy cut out three tiny dogs from a Doodlebug Designs “Puppy Love” paper collection<\/a><\/span> and added them to three of the cake layers.<\/p>\n

For the inside card liner, I simply stamped out “Happy Birthday DAD!” from The Greeting Farm “I Love Dad” stamp set<\/a><\/span>. I added a little scrap of puppy paw print paper from my scrap box to carry through the puppy love theme of the card and the red from the card front.<\/p>\n

The following is a process video of making this card:<\/p>\n