The inspiration for the color palette is a little strawberry and chocolate ice cream. Whether you are celebrating or need a little comfort ice cream will usually do the trick! So this little card is a great addition to any card giver’s stash.

The background is a single color application of a little trick that the Hero Arts blog is featuring this week. It is simple to do but it may take a few tries to get the shape you want, in this case the shape is that of a single scoop of strawberry ice cream.

DISTRESSED BACKGROUND

1. Press Tim Holtz’s Tattered Rose distress ink pad face down on your craft mat, turn the pad about 20 degrees and press again in the same spot, repeat once more. The idea is to avoid an unsightly square shape and keep the ink blot small enough in proportion to the stamp.
2. Spritz the area liberally with water and swirl it around with your fingertip to get rid of the square edges.
3. Place your paper face down and twirl it around. Try to avoid having the entire surface touch the table at once if you are trying to acheive a roundish shape. Plan on having to throw away a few tries! Use your heat gun to move the ink around and dry “drips” into the freeform design. Keep at it with the remaining ink until it takes shape.
4. Using a dry paint brush apply Adirondack’s Metallics Copper paint around the edges then accent it with the Metalics Pearl paint.
5. Add a little flair to the corners with the sparkly pearl paint.
6. Apply Aderondack’s Expresso paint around the edges of the card base. Use an angled feather like stroke with your dry paint brush and go back over the edges to make sure they are well covered.

ICE CREAM IN GREEN CARNIVAL GLASS DISH

1. Stamp the ice cream sundae stamp with a non-solvent ink like Brilliance. Make sure it is dry so your marker tips will not get discolored.
2. Color the dish all over with a light blue (Copic BG10).
3. Shade the lines with a light green (YG11).
4. Use a darker green to place a thinner line of shade (G02).
5. Blend all over with the light blue.
6. Add some mottled highlights with the colorless blender.
7. Use three shades of brown to color the chocolate ice cream (E33, E35, E37), three shades of pink (R20, RV02, RV13) to color the strawberry, a medium and a dark brown (E37, E29) for the syrup, and two shades of red plus a light grey (R24, R37, C3) for the cherry. Use the colorless blender to add some shine at the top of the cherry.
8. Color the whip cream with a Versamark embossing pen and use Rangers white Embossing Puffs to accomplished the raised effect.
9. Cover the glass dish and the cherry with Ink Essentials Glossy Accents.

ACRYLIC ACCENT

Remember that acrylic paint is an opaque medium and when working on the backside of the acrylic accent you will work from light to dark. On the front side work from dark to light.

1. Stamp “BFF” on the front side of the acrylic shape with the Adirondack Expresso acrylic paint. Set aside to dry before proceeding to the next step.
2. Use the Pearl paint dauber to highlight the letters from the backside. Let it dry.
3. Dab the copper paint around the edges of the back side.
4. Add the three white highlights to the front.

FLOWERS

The flowers are plain cream paper flowers by Prima from thier Black Tie Collection. It is not a ”bleed-proof” paper so markers will bleed a bit and you can plan on a loose water color look. If you would rather have a more tight painterly style then choose acrylic paint. These flowers were done with Copic markers.

1. Color the flowers with markers to draw out your favorite colors from the patterned background paper.
2. Add some Stickles to the petals, most of the glitter will settle into the debossed swirls.
3. Use dimensional pearls paint for the centers of the flowers, or rhinestones would be a nice option too.

Assemble the artwork on a patterned paper, this is Basic Grey. Tuck the flowers in as you place it on the card base. Use a dimensional adhesive for adhering the ice cream centerpiece. Then as a finishing touch set off the white space with pearalicious stamped swirls!

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