Today I have another card design – that was a result of my recent session of designing with leftover bits & pieces of stuff.

The two yellow arrows show the "bits & pieces" I started out with: the cake pedestal, and the first layer of cake (upon which the "birthday wishes" sentiment had already been stamped).

Both of these pieces had already been stamped and fussy-cut, so I started by slapping 'em onto a folded card base of thick Whisper White cardstock. Thankfully, the "Build a Birthday" stamp set is still current, and therefore still in my collection, so grabbing that was an easy decision….. and then I headed to my ink pads to decide on other colors that would coordinate.

Both cake layers #2 and #3 were stamped onto Whisper White and then cut out with scissors, and then the top layer was trimmed from a scrap of Designer Series Paper I had located elsewhere. All were ultimately adhered to the card base, but before I laid down the top cake layer I stamped the flags directly onto the card base.

So was it "finished"?  Well, at first I thought so….. but on second thought, maybe not.

It just wasn't "speaking" to me.

So I added 3 rhinestones, and that touch of bling did help a *little* bit. But it still called out for more; it seemed to me like the cake was just hanging around - for no particular reason.  And looked almost as if it might fall right off the page. So I finally decided it needed a frame, and after cutting a simple mask and sponging around its edges, I set my tools down.

There!

NOW it was done!