You're Sweet

The weather has quickly turned from spring to summer and it is the perfect time to have a popsicle. Today's card was inspired by the Lawn Fawn I Scream, You Scream die set and a piece of popsicle paper from Amy Tangerine's Stay Sweet collection.  

I wanted to mimic a tricolored popsicle on the Amy Tangerine Popsicle Summer paper. To make the popsicle, I ink blended Distress Oxide inks in the colors peacock feathers, abandoned coral, and spun sugar on Strathmore Bristol smooth cardstock. I die cut out the tri-blended popsicle shapes.  I also die cut the popsicle stick out of kraft cardstock and inked the edges in vintage photo Distress ink.  For the purple popsicle, I repeated the process using wilted violet Distress Oxide ink.  I die cut a stitched circle from a lime green piece of paper from the Stay Sweet collection.  The sentiments were made from a combination of Heidi Swapp sentiment stamps.  I heat embossed the "you are" sentiment in white on black cardstock.  I also stamped the "sweet" sentiment in Versafine onyx black ink and then clear heat embossed it.  All the pieces were glued onto a piece of salmon-colored cardstock and mounted to a kraft card base.  I tied a bow made from gray and white twine to each popsicle stick and embellished with turquoise and purple enamel dots.

I had so much fun making the first card, that I wanted to make another and take advantage of the cute faces included in the die set.  This time, I cut a fudge bar from dark brown cardstock.  I die cut the sweet face out of the popsicle and backed it in white cardstock to make the face more visible.  I also used the die that makes it look like someone took a bite out of the top of the popsicle.  I die cut cheeks out of pink cardstock and glued them to the popsicle.  For the stitched circle, I used a different piece of lime green paper from my stash and mounted it to a piece of pink polka dot paper.  This was adhered to white cardstock and then glued to a kraft card base.  The popsicle and sentiments were glue to the lime green circle.  The card was embellished with a pink and white twine bow, lime green enamel dots, and some ribbon.

I love how these cards turned out.  They are the perfect summer treat!

You're Sweet
Supplies:

• Lawn Fawn I Scream, You Scream Die Set
• Double Stitched Circle Die Set
• Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks - Abandoned Coral, Peacock Feathers, Spun Sugar, and Wilted Violet
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo
• 6x8 Amy Tangerine Stay Sweet Paper Pad
• The Paper Studio - Tiny Polka - Pink Tonal
• Heidi Swapp Stamp Sets - Sentiments and Magnolia Jane
• Versafine Onyx Black Ink
• Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Recollections Detail Embossing Powder - Snow
• Hampton Arts Clear Embossing Powder
• Cardstock by Recollections™ 
• The Paper Studio Twine
• The Paper Studio Enamel Dots