Artist Trading Cards: Let Them Eat Cake

Over the last two weeks I’ve written about my interest in Artist Trading Cards.  Today I am sharing one of the swaps that I participated in entitled “Let Them Eat Cake.”  Interpretation of this theme was wide open as long as it included cake.  With each card that I created I tried to tie the theme into a use of fabric in some way since my cards were all made from fabric.  So for this swap I created Red Velvet, Sponge and Chiffon cakes.

I began with some free clip art of cakes in various forms.  I then used fabric to render the various sweets. 

For the sponge cake I cut a “shadow” layer of black fabric and fused on the top layer of yellow cake.  For the sponge portion I cut a common household sponge into a very thin layer and stitched it in place.

The cake pedestal on the chiffon cake card was fused in place and stitched down.  I then cut a piece of silk chiffon larger than the cake area and gently pleated it while stitching it down to mimic fluffy icing.

The red velvet cake layers were cut from that fabric; the icing layers were white velvet.  All of the layers were stitched into place. 

Each card had the name of the cake stamped on using small letter stamps and ink.

I had a lot of fun dreaming up and creating these cards. What other flavors can you come up with?