Papertrey Ink May Blog Hop

Today, I'm participating in the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. 

Our challenge was to use this beautiful photo as inspiration:

Isn't it fabulous?

I just love it!

In fact, I love it so much that I was inspired to make 17 cards using it. ;)

First of all, I was inspired to make some cards for my Sunday School girls.

I can't believe our year together is almost up and

that next year, they'll be moving up to junior high.

I wanted to give them each a card to remind them how awesome they are...

Since I have seven girls in my group, I made seven cards, using my MISTI.

I actually made eight cards, anticipating that I might make a mistake on one of them...

I started by stamping the popsicles from Summer Sweetness on a watercolour

panel, spritzing my stamps with water after inking them up each time.

On the bottom two, I reinked them again with a different colour.

I added the sticks and drops & then stamped the sentiment

(from SSS Big Scripty Sentiments) in Altenew Evening Grey.

For something a little different, I folded a piece of sweet blush cardstock in half

and used that as my card back.

And remember how I said I made eight cards, just in case?

Well, it was a good thing I did, because one of my popsicle details got stamped

all crooked (a side-effect of spritzing with water!), so I diecut three of the

popsicles from the panel using the coordinating dies and made this card:

I watercoloured the background using some harvest gold and bright buttercup

ink pressed onto an acrylic block, mixed with water.

I stamped a piece of aqua mist cardstock with my MFT Sketched Chevron Background stamp.

I stamped the sentiment (from Summer Sweetness)

and added some wooden stars to finish it off.

And then, when you'd think that 8 cards would be enough,

I was brainstorming ideas for the couples who are getting married soon for whom

our church is throwing a Jack & Jill potluck lunch shower

and thought how, since the shower is centered around the meal,

popsicles could be a sweet image to include.

So, I made nine cards like this:

What do you think?

I stamped the harvest gold/berry sorbet popsicles onto their coordinating diecuts

using the same technique as above.

Using my MISTI (how I love this tool!), I stamped the aqua mist/tropical teal popsicle

as well as the sentiments (from Walter & Winnie's The Big, The Bold and Blessings)

on each card front.

Then, leaving my sentiment stamps in place,

I stamped them onto the popsicle diecuts before adhering them to my cards.

Pretty sweet, don't you think? ;)

Thanks for looking!