Thursday 2 June 2016

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream!

I have been playing with the Ice Cream Shoppe stamp set this time around from Artistic Outpost. All stamps are available from Our Daily Bread Designs.
I decided to create invites this time around which I thought would be perfect for a birthday party.  I began by die cutting three Recipe Cards from white card using Eileen Hull's die. The background has been coloured with Picked Raspberry and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Inks. I applied each colour to a piece of recycled plastic packaging, spritzed with water and then dabbed the ink onto the background and then dried with a heat tool. Repeated the same process with the second colour and dried once again. I repeated this until I was happy with the coverage of colour.
I added a touch of background stamping using the Ephemera Backgrounds stamp and Picked Raspberry Distress Ink.
I printed off computer generated text which I die cut using one of Tim Holtz Thinlits Labels adding a touch of colour with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink. I also used part of the sentiment to add Ice Cream three times to each of the invites.
I stamped the ice cream cone with Black Archival Ink onto each of the invites. I also thought that these would make great recipe cards. You could add a homemade ice cream recipe to the back.
For added interest I included painted circles and scratchy lines using Picked Raspberry Distress Paint. I added Black Soot Distress Ink to the edges for definition.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Tracy x x


7 comments:

Pamellia said...

Mmmmm, that looks delicious Tracy! I love the colours you used, gives your card a creamy ice-cream feel! Love them! hugs :)

Chris said...

A lovely idea to make invitations Tracy and the colours are so pretty, I could almost think it was summer if I didn't know better :-D! Love the stamps you used too. Chris x

Deb said...

Wonderful invitations Tracy, your colour palette is perfect for that wonderful ice cream stamp! Thanks for sharing them, Deb xo

Brenda Brown said...

Wonderful ice cream colours and brilliant layout Tracy. I love the inky layers and stamping and your great words that help bring it all together. Can I come to the party please? Xxx

Words and Pictures said...

You always make me fall in love with this colour combination when you use it - perfect for the ice cream stamps!
Alison x

Anonymous said...

They look great Tracy...what a good idea for invites. xx

Corrie Herriman said...

Love these ! Fabulous colours !
Corrie x