Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! Last week I spent a couple of days in Ocean City, MD with my visiting family, and you guessed it, we had ice cream. So I had to use the Stampin’ Up! Ice Cream Swirl bundle to make a card. And I wanted beachy colors, so I used the Sketched Plaid background stamp to make ‘DSP’ for the background. You can find the supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.
We have a theme challenge this week and no veggies or fruits, but ice cream is a food, so yay!
I stamped the sketched plaid background stamp in Azure Afternoon ink on a Basic White panel and colored the stripes with Stampin’ Blends. I used light Pretty In Pink, light Shy Shamrock, light Granny Apple Green and dark Fresh Freesia for the horizontal stripes and dark Lemon Lolly, light Azure Afternoon, light Peach Pie and light Summer Splash for the vertical stripes. I just colored the stripes and I wasn’t too careful. I adhered the stamped panel to a Pretty In Pink mat and to the front of a Shy Shamrock Z-Fold card base with liquid glue. I also stamped and colored a panel for the middle of the card and for the inside panel trim.
I used the Stampin’ Up! Ice Cream Swirl dies to cut my ice cream, using Peach Pie for the background die and Basic White for the detailed die. This is exactly like the Creamsicle/Vanilla cone I had at the beach (my husband had chocolate/vanilla swirl). I stamped the cone using Pecan Pie ink on Crumb Cake and cut it out with the coordinating die. I adhered the ice cream cone die cuts together and popped it on the card front with dimensionals.
I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Ice Cream Swirl stamp set using Azure Afternoon ink on Pretty In Pink card stock. I cut it out with the small circle from the Unbounded Love dies and adhered it to the larger circle cut from Shy Shamrock card stock. I adhered a folded length of Azure Afternoon ribbon to the back and adhered it to the card with dimensionals. I used Shiny Sequins as sprinkles on my ice cream.
For the inside of the card, I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Ice Cream Swirl stamp set using Azure Afternoon ink. I adhered a strip of my stamped and colored plaid to the bottom and adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal. You can see the last panel on the left side – this is the middle section of the Z-Fold.
With Summer upon us, it’s time for ice cream – cones, sandwiches, sundaes, any ways. And the Stampin’ Up! Ice Cream Swirl bundle is perfect to celebrate. And OK, fruits and veggies are good too.
On with the Hop! Click on the Next Blog button to move forward to see the beautiful project Karen Ksenzakovic has created.
If you get lost along the way, here are the participants for the hop:
- Amy Koenders
- Mary Deatherage
- Karen Finkle
- Akiko Sudano <– You Are Here
- Karen Ksenzakovic
- Tara Carpenter
- Terry Lynn Bright
- Carol Buckalew
- Nel Thames