Birthday Card / ESS Sketch #37

I needed to do a card for my father-in-law, a very thoughtful person I have come to respect. I had moment of free time and I decided to get this one done while I had the chance.

I needed a sketch so I immediately knew I had to use this week ESS Sketch #37 where Tracy Clemente gave us a sketch with clean lines and a fun spot to place an accent element.

Here is my take on the challenges:

I also decided to play along this week Cuttlebug Spot Challenge #31 where we were to use our Cuttelbug to emboss something other than paper. So I decided to emboss a piece of transparency and use matching paint colors to give it a stress look and make it stand out more - first time I have done this so it was fun but I think it needs something else, just don't know what that could be :)...

Use my darling Cricut to cut a cake and use Silver stickles to decorate the cake and match the base DCWV PP. I then use some glaze glue and some beads to decorate the top of the cake. I do like how the cake turned out :) I used a ribbon with a metal tag to finish the card and metal brads to hold the transparency.

On this card I tried a few new things without really knowing how it would turn out in the end; and I had FUN doing that!

Supplies:
cake - cut at 2'' using Cricut Celebrations Cartridge
Cuttelbug Happy Birthday embossing folder
DCWV Dress 'Up Stack pp, DCWV texture paper
"enjoy" metal tag - Making Memories w/ Tag Curl tool"
Making Memories assorted paints
Ranger Stickles silver
OfficeMax Transparencies
Ribbon from M's
J's Essentials silver brads
Alene Glaze Glue
Beads