Welcome to the newest Make My Monday bi-weekly challenge #229. Our host for this challenge, Claudia, chose Cocktails or Ice Cream as the theme. When you finish here, please visit the challenge site to see what the rest of the very talented design team members created. Then, don’t forget to upload your creations to our gallery. We look forward to seeing your creations there!
Here’s my coffee ice cream card:
Honestly, I didn’t have anything for either cocktails or ice cream. Believe me I scoured my current and retired products and didn’t find anything to use. Therefore, I really needed my mojo to kick into gear and figure out what to do. I wound up combining the Lattee Love bundle and DSP, a cloud from the Bright Skies dies, and a sentiment from Kiddin’ Around. I figured since my very favorite kind of ice cream is coffee, this combination would work.
Measurements:
- Trim a piece of Lost Lagoon cardstock to 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches and score at 4-1/4 inches.
- Trim another piece of Lost Lagoon cardstock to 5-1/2 by 4-1/4 inches.
- Crop a piece of Calypso Coral cardstock using a deckled rectangle die.
- Use an embossing folder to dry emboss both the Lost Lagoon and Calypso Coral cardstock. I actually embossed both pieces together so the pieces would line up.
- Trim the Lost Lagoon to 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches.
- Using the Latte Love DSP (designer series paper), crop a coffee cup.
- Stamp a spoon on Gray Granite cardstock using Basic Gray ink. Crop with the Latte dies.
- Crop two clouds for the ice cream using the coffee DSP and the cloud die from Bright Skies die set.
- Stamp the sentiment from Kiddin’ Around in black ink on white cardstock. Crop using a Stylish Shapes die.
- Trim a piece of DSP to 6 inches by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap.
- Punch a 1-inch circle from coordinating DSP and run through the XYRON create-a-sticker for the envelope seal.
- Trim a piece of white cardstock to 5-1/4 by 4 inches for the inside of the card.
Assembly:
- Unless otherwise noted, use multipurpose liquid glue to adhere pieces together.
- Adhere the embossed Lost Lagoon cardstock to the base of the card.
- Wrap a piece of Lost Lagoon ribbon around the Calypso Coral cardstock and tie in a square knot.
- Line up the embossed pattern for the Calypso Coral cardstock and adhere to the front of the card.
- Adhere the coffee cup to the Calypso Coral cardstock.
- Dry fit your ice cream clouds and then adhere using black mini-dimensionals.
- Adhere the spoon using mini-dimensionals as well.
- Add dimensionals to the sentiment label so that they will straddle the ribbon and adhere.
- Stamp a birthday sentiment on the white cardstock for the inside of the card and adhere.
- With that, you’ve finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set.
