Beat the Heat with Cold Treats
Hi readers! Welcome back to our monthly feature with the fantastic Debby Hughes who shows us new and creative ways to stretch our crafting supplies! This month she’s tempting us with a sweet treat! This yummy looking treat reminded me of Neapolitan Ice Cream! Who’s hungry?!
Grab a snack, come back, and read on!
Hi Debby here, with a look at stretching those supplies. Last month I used the ice cream cone from Cone Building to create trees, well this month I’m turning the leaf/tree from the Nature die set in to an ice cream!
This is a really simple change to make – cut the die from white card, place a strip of washi across the middle, blend Dark Chocolate ink into the top, Hot Lips along the bottom with a touch of Khaki for the stick then remove the washi to reveal your lolly. Here in the UK we call this type of lolly a Fab and it has sprinkles on the top. Is that what you call them too? To represent the sprinkles I coated the Dark Chocolate area in Ranger Multi Medium Matte and dunked into Distress Glitter before adding a sequin and a couple of beads.
The lolly is mounted on a Hello Sunshine Frame cut from white card and mounted over a piece of Simple Stories paper from the August Card Kit. Also from that kit is an October Afternoon puffy sticker as well as the delicious Tropical Bay shimmer card cut with a Stitched Rectangle. I tucked in the sun from the Hello Sunshine Frame die set blended with Sunshine ink and finished off with a few sequins :D
Try letting your eyes wander over your supplies to see what else jumps out at you other than their intended use and really stretch your stash. Hope you are enjoying your summer and that the sun will still be with us when I’m back next month!
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Lovely card! It looks good enough to eat!
Oh so CUTE!
Your card is just a stunning rainbow of beauty!!!! What a clever idea to stretch our supplies and using a tree die to make a “lolly”!!! Love the “sprinkles” especially!!!
Cutest card!
Such a happy (and cute) summer card! Love every detail.
LOVING LOVING LOVING these SWEET Treats!! YUMMY!! =) THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
Simply A.DOR.A.BLE !!!!
Simply yummy!
It’s a dreary morning so this card brightened up the room.
thanks for sharing.
yummy
Just love the colors.
This card looks amazingly tasty!! Love how you completed the ice lolly with the distressed glitter – makes it look so real:)
Beautiful card. I love Debby’s creations.
Like the look of this. Especially like the sunshine die.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Beautifully created card, looks stunning!!
I love your lolly! Great idea and it looks very tasty. The sequins are a cute addition.
I always love Debbie Hughes use of color! This feature of using your products is so amazing!!! Love all the possibilities!
Cute card!
So fresh n Fab !
Such a clever design and Yummy looking!
I love this card
Ice-cream looks irresistible! Pretty card design.
Great card! ;-)
LOVE this card, so colorful and summery and it makes me very HAPPY!!!
Gorgeous and very yummy!! Love it! The ways Debby stretches her dies is awesome, thanks for sharing Karen
No I crave an ice cream!
I meant “now” in previous comment :)
I love this set of stamps and dies, and now I have another way to use them! Thank you so much for the creative idea.
SO cute, I love how you did the sentiment!
What a sunny and fun card. I love the way the sun is mounted.
Such a cute card. Great design by Debby. I love how you show different ways to use our supplies….out of the box and clever. Thanks for sharing.
Darling card!! Love the colors:)
so cute Dolly
Adorable and clever Fab!! Such cute card and thank you for the inspiration.
So cute! Love all the little details!
This is so cute. Debby always creates something wonderful and I love her style!
Such a cute card and the ice cream bar looks good enough to eat. I adore Debbie’s cards and look forward to each one.
Love this “lolly” bar–could go for one right now, it’s suppose to be 112 today in Phx! Thanks for sharing this cute card.
Love this! So very creative and super yummy! Love the colors and the design…..now I want a Popsicle ♥
Neat card!
Super duper cute card! Thanks for the inspiration.
Yummy card.
Mmmm what an amazing lolly!
This is an irresistibly happy card!
Super cute!!
Yummy! This makes me want a popsicle! wonderful job, I love the words and the fact that they are a out line of letter cut out! So cute! So tempting!
Where do you get your ideas? Love this!
So very clever!
Card is cute.
So cute, just love this! :)