Anyone for Ice Cream?

Apparently we about to get a mini-heatwave here in the UK (but only for a couple of days cos we're not allowed a real summer!) so I thought I'd make some suitably summery cards featuring ice-cream and lollies to get us all in the mood :-)

Newton's Nooks 3rd Birthday release has some brilliant summery products and I jumped straight away for the Dog Days of Summer set as I loved it as soon as I saw it last month - I do love a stamp with added humour.   I thought it would be fun to make the doggy with the ice cream work for his treat so I made another slider (sorry I am sure you're fed up of these already but I am LOVING making them!) 

I stamped him onto thick card and coloured with copics and then carefully cut him out so I could separate the ice cream from his tongue.  I added a spin and slide disc directly under the dogs head (the discs will be back in stock early this week) and die cut 3 circles of card to match the depth of the disc and added those behind his bottom to keep him level when he moves.

The base card was decorated with appropriately themed papers from the Summer Party pad by Echo Park (there is matching lolly washi tape too!) and finished with a sentiment from Big Birthday Sentiments.  A strip of card and a hand drawn arrow finish the slider mechanism and let the doggy get his ice cream.

For my next card I wanted to play with the fun lollies in the Party Pops stamp set (die is en-route if you're waiting for it and will hopefully be here by the end of the week)  I thought a rainbow of lollies would be the perfect quick card for a child's birthday so I went to town with some brightly coloured MFT inks and repeat stamped just one image from the set (too much mixed pattern with the colour would have been too much but you could repeat the process with all 6 images and create a fun set of cards as a gift)  You add the little stick to your chosen lolly which makes the set really versatile.  I finished with a sentiment from the set over the top to keep the card super-CAS.

If you want to know the ink choice I used Wild Cherry, Orange Fizz,  Sunshine, Sour Apple, Blu Raspberry, Grape Jelly, Razzleberry and Cotton Candy

NEWS FROM THE STORE

• It will be a slightly quieter week this week - we should have had the Mama Elephant release but July is their "release free" month so they will be back with a bang on 15th August!
• We will have restocks from MFT early this week - including some of the Birthday Bears which sold out really fast first time around.
• We will also be getting the new release from Lil' Inker Designs but it is not released until 25th July so you'll have to wait until a week on Monday for that one.
• We have our order in for Lawn Fawn's massive new release but please remember it will not be here until mid to late August.

 Have a great weekend and I'll see you on Wednesday when I'm covering for Kate again.

Tara

Surprise Celebration!

Hi its me again!   I've got a fun interactive card using the new Bella 2.0 range from Stamping Bella but with an added twist of lemon.......

I thought it would be fun having Cosmoabella popping up out of a cocktail glass (OK it's a Margarita glass not a cosmo one but we'll just call that artistic license)  I used the Slide on Over dies from Lawn Fawn to make her pop up like a surprise out of a giant cake (or glass in this case).

As she is a little longer (and wider) than the stem on the glass, I added a strip of lemon paper from the new Summer Party pad from Echo Park which co-ordinated with the lemon die cut (part of the Margarita die set) which I used to conceal her hand.   I used my new favourite background stamp to add a little interest to the background panel too - Scattered Surface - its a great subtle pattern for all kinds of cards.

The word pull was stamped using the Avery Elle mini alphabet stamp and my tip for keeping the pull bar straight is to add a couple of strips of card either side of the mechanism to keep it in place.  I used a small foam square to attach the bella to the strip through the slider bar.

Hope you give a "pop up suprise" card a go - the possibilities are endless!

Positively Pink!

Hi - Kate is taking a break this week so you're stuck with me again.   I needed to make something fun to brighten my life as its all been a bit difficult around here since the brexit vote so here's my effort to cheer myself up!

I've used one of the new paper pads we got in store yesterday as my inspiration - Summer Party by Echo Park cos I do have a thing for flamingos!   I used the oval flop die from MFT to create my base but removed the "flop" bit as I just wanted the interesting shaped front to my card.  I used the die again to create the dark pink mat - cutting it twice to make a complete oval.   The flamingo die is also from MFT and is coloured with 3 shades of markers.  I think often we are in the mindset of colouring stamps and cutting dies from plain card but you can colour your die cuts too for a much more realistic look.   The sentiment is from the co-ordinating stamp set called Tickled Pink.

Hope it's cheered you all up too and don't worry Kate will be back next week!

Tara