Milkshakes or Daisies?

Hi guys!  I was in a bit of a quandary today.  Do I share food or daisies?  Either way I have some goodies to share.  But I think today the food wins out.  I recently purchased the Share a Milkshake Bundle (page 54) and had to sit right down and play with it.  It seems the perfect set to play around with since the weather is warming up.  Well, at least it was yesterday.  Today we're back to clouds and rain.  I keep telling myself that all the rain is making my flowers happy, but it's still not cheering me up too much.  So let's move on to the milkshakes.  It's been a few years since I actually had one, but these ideas are turning out so yummy looking, I might need to have one soon!

This card reminds me of the Stroh's Black Cherry ice cream I always had in Michigan which I absolutely love!  They don't have it down here, so I'll just have to keep dreaming about it and make my own version. 😋  Yum!

I started out with a piece of Hello Irresistible DSP that's found only on the SU! Online Exclusives area of the ordering page.  Yes, it's still available as of this writing.  I had this piece left over from another project and it was just sitting there patiently waiting for me to do something with it.  The size is 4" x 3".  Just the right size to use here.  Even though Moody Mauve isn't listed as one of the colors on the DSP, I thought it worked nicely.  It's framed up with Basic White that measures 4 1/8" x 3 1/8".  The sentiment from the Share a Milkshake stamp set is stamped with Moody Mauve directly on the DSP.

Time to stir up our milkshake.  Use Basic White cardstock to stamp the glass.  For this I used one of the new 2023-2025 In Colors, Moody Mauve.  Both of the stamps to make the glass were off-stamped before stamping on the white cardstock.  The ice cream was stamped with Berry Burst ink.  Then these pieces and a plain straw were die-cut with the coordinating dies.  After die-cutting the straw, I used the Moody Mauve Light Blends to add stripes to it.  I had planned on keeping it white for the card, but it just didn't work.

To put the card together, the glass was attached to the DSP layer with adhesive.  The straw was tucked into the ice cream through the little slit that the ice cream die cuts.  This makes it so much easier that trying to cut a slit for the straw by myself.  Then the ice cream and straw were attached above the glass using Dimensionals.

The whole layer was attached to the folded Moody Mauve cardstock base.  I used a top fold card base that measures 11" x 4 1/4" and is scored at 5 1/2". Dimesionals were used to attach the focal layers.

For finishing, I haven't decided yet to leave as is, or add some bling.  I'm happy without anything added at this point, but I'm open to suggestions.  What do you think?

I have to say that I really love this combo of colors.  The more I look at it, the happier I am with it.  But wait, remember my sister Connie was here and she made one of these cards too.  Well, her version of it anyway.

As you can see, there were changes made right from the beginning.  She used the same DSP pack of paper, but she went with the Soft Sea Foam and Lost Lagoon colors.  She changed the card base to Soft Sea Foam and the white layer got just a little tweak.  

Her glass was made with Soft Sea Foam layers on Basic White.  These layers were not off-stamped.  The ice cream was Soft Sea Foam that was off-stamped to make much lighter.  With an Early Espresso marker, she drew in some chocolate chips to make it look like mint-chocolate chip ice cream.  

She used Lost Lagoon ink to stamp both the words and the straw.  Cute!  I'm not sure which one I like better.  But I do know they were both fun to create.  Stick around.  There'll be another post soon with more ideas using the Share A Milkshake stamp set and dies.

Thanks for stopping in today.  Hope you enjoyed sharing a milkshake or two with me.  I appreciate the time you take to visit my blog.  I try to keep it interesting and informative.

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Happy stamping and creating,

Sharon