Ice Pop Treat!

Summer heat is upon us, so what better theme to have than the Stampendous Design Team  "Keeping Cool" theme! This sweet House Mouse Ice Pop stamp, along with the sentiment are some of the wonderful products I receive from Stampendous for being part of their Design Team! 

These adorable mice are cooling off on a hot summer day with a delicious Ice Pop! Hmmm...I can almost taste it!

Stampendous:

HMP76 House Mouse Ice Pop Treat
SSC1213 Life Words PCS

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Acrylic Handle
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Dreamweaver:

DWLJ863 Swirls Stencil

DWNHB12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle

Plus:

My Color Cardstock - Banana Pepper
Bright Orange Cardstock
Brilliance Ink - Sunflower Yellow, Pearlescent Orange
Copic Markers - E33, E51, E53, E93, G000, G12, G24, W0, W2, Y00, Y02, Y13, Y15, Y17, YG0000, YR04
Rubber Embossing Mat
Die Cut Machine
Foam Tape

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 6" x 9 1/2" piece of Banana Pepper cardstock in half to form an A6 card

Step 2: Use the Tuxedo Black ink to stamp the Ice Pop Treat image on a 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" piece of white cardstock, color with Copic Markers
Step 3:  Place the Swirls stencil face down on the large platform of a die cut machine, spritz a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of white cardstock with a fine mist of water and carefully line the paper up over the stencil, place a rubber embossing mat over the paper, add two unused cutting plates and run the sandwich through the machine
Step 4:   Place the embossed image face up and use 1/2" stencil brushes to add the yellow, then orange inks over the design

Step 5:   Cut a 2 1/4" x 4 3/4" piece of the embossed image, mat on a 2 3/8" x 4 3/4" piece of bright orange cardstock and adhere toward the left edge of the card front
Step 6: Mat the Ice Pop Treat image on a 3 3/8" x 4 7/8" piece of bright orange cardstock, then adhere to the card front towards the bottom right
Step 7:  Cut a 1 1/4" x 1 1/2" piece of the embossed image, stamp the sentiment on it with Tuxedo Black ink, adhere it to a 1 3/8" x 1 5/8" piece of bright orange cardstock, use foam tape on it's upper edge to add it toward the upper left side of the card

Head over to the Stampendous Blog for more summer fun!

Happy Creating,

Louise

Happy Birthday!

We're having a Superstar Birthday celebration on the Stampendous Design Team this week! That means we are sharing ideas using some of our awesome stamps and stencils to create birthday projects!

Today I combined  the DWLJ920 Jumbo Happy Birthday stencil with the DWLJ863 Swirls stencil for another fun card!

Stampendous:

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Dreamweaver:

DWLJ920 Jumbo Happy Birthday
DWLJ863 Swirls
DWGHB-6 1/4" Brush #6 Gold Handle Brush
DWNHB-12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle

Plus:

My Color Cardstock - Coral Rose, Fireflies
Distress Inks - spun sugar worn lipstick, picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade
Removable Tape

Die Cut Machine
Rubber Embossing Mat
Foam Tape
Black Fine Line Pen

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 6" x 9 1/2" piece of Coral Rose cardstock in half to form an A6 card

Step 2: Place the Jumbo Happy Birthday stencil face down (so you can't see the stencil number) on the large platform of a die cut machine, spritz a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of white cardstock lightly with water and line it up on the stencil, carefully place the rubber embossing mat over the paper, add two cutting plates and run through the die cut machine
Step 3: Leave the stencil on the embossed image, use a 1/2 brush to apply spun sugar over all the letters, switch to worn lipstick and bring the color up from the bottom of each letter, but don't completely cover the spun sugar, apply a little of the picked raspberry near the bottom of each letter, use the black fine line pen to outline each opening of the stencil, remove and clean stencil
Step 4:  Place the Swirl stencil over the colored Happy Birthday, use 1/4" stencil brushes to apply some pink and yellow swirls to the background, try to avoid the letters as much as possible, move the stencil as necessary, remove and clean the stencil
Step 5:  Run the picked raspberry ink around the edge of the paper and use the 1/4" brush to rouge just a little ink near the edges

Step 6: Cut 4 squares 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" from the Fireflies paper and adhere them to each corner of the Happy Birthday layer leaving a small edge showing on each
Step 7:  Cut 2 pieces 1 1/2" x 1/2" from the Fireflies paper and adhere in the center of the top and bottom edges
Step 8:  Use foam tape to attach the Happy Birthday to the card front

A list of today's designers can be found on the

Stampendous Blog

Happy Creating,

Louise