core'dinations blog hop: day three

here's the scoop!

or in this case, the scoops, plural: three luscious dips of distressed, crumpled, sanded and inked core'dinations goodness, that is! vanilla and strawberry are soft tan and pale pink shades from the whitewash collection, while chocolate--& the cone--came straight from the nostalgia super assortment.

(cardstock: core'dinations whitewash collection & nostalgia super assortment; chipboard sassafras; rub-on: carolee's creations; inks: colorbox; pens: zig & copic; adhesives: 3m foam tape and tombow mono runner; other: scor-it board, cotton balls)

my favorite part of this card is how dimensional the scoops of ice cream are! recently i saw (i wish i could remember where, to give credit!) a fabulous card with really puffy, dimensional clouds on it; to get the look the brilliant cardmaker had stuffed them very lightly with cotton!!! it turns out to be a simple process and it pays off BIG-TIME on your card!

here's what you do:

sketch your scoops: use the back of your paper, and don't cut yet; the edges want to rip during the distressment process, so leave a little margin of extra paper

distress your scoops: i dampened mine and crumpled them multiple times; when they were dry i sanded the raised bits from different directions till i had a nice random pattern...when i was completely done, i cut the shapes out and inked the edges

create your cone: i used a scor-it board to create a diagonal cross-hatched pattern on a triangular piece of cardstock, sanding the raised bits of each direction in between for contrast

stuff your scoops: apply small dots of foam tape around the entire edge of your scoop, then cup the edges up a bit so you have a little hollow which you can then fill with a bit of fluffed up cotton ball; position the scoops on top of each other, adjusting the stuffing as necessary.

et voila: a sugar-free treat that won't melt no matter how hot it gets!

for those of you participating in the BLOG HOP, here's a reminder of the order...and remember if you need to consult the full rules and regs, just pop back to CAARDVARKS or CORE'DINATIONS!

Jenyfur

♥ Lauren ♥ (you are here!)

Mel

Lori

Tanis

Adela

Kryssi

Nathalia

Jenn B.

Pamela

Stef

Carrie

Ashley

Lucy

Heidi

Michelle

Jolene

Daniela

♥ ♥ ♥ happy hopping!!! ♥ ♥ ♥