Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge-Snow Cone

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 It's time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!

photo credit:  www.babble.com

We hope you'll play along!  The LEAD of this challenge will be invited as a Guest Designer in a future challenge!  Please visit the Curtain Call Challenge blog for all the challenge info and deadline.

Here's my take on the inspiration photo.  I used another icy summery treat--popsicles--and some of the photo's warm color hues as my inspiration.  The layout comes from the current sketch at CAS(e) this Sketch.   

I started out by making wide watercolor stripes on a panel of watercolor paper that I'd cut with a pierced rectangle die.  While the stripes dried, I used the small popsicle from the Concord and 9th Sweet and Cool stamp set to stamp a pair of popsicle images on a scrap of watercolor paper, then painted those with stripes, too.  After letting the popsicles dry, I cut them with the matching die, then arranged them on the right side of the painted stripes.  To give them an icy look, I brushed them with a Spectrum Noir clear Sparkle pen.  It's so pretty IRL!  I stamped the set's "I think you're quite cool" sentiment on the left side of the stripes in Versafine Onyx Black ink--my all-time favorite black ink for crisp, dark sentiments.  I added a few pink sequin "drips" around the popsicles, then adhered the panel to a lemon yellow card base.

Make sure you visit each of the designers' blogs for more inspiration:

Snow Cone Designers

Betty Wright
Kim Singdahlsen
Laurie Willison
Leigh Penner
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler--you're here!
Lynn Mangan
Marisa Ritzen
Maureen Plut
Melody Rupple
Monika Davis
Silke Ledlow
Sheri Gilson
Stacey Schafer
Tammy Hershberger
Tara Godfrey

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Materials Used:
Sweet and Cool stamp set, Sweet and Cool dies (Concord and 9th); Versafine Onyx Black ink (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); marker (Copic); clear Sparkle pen (Spectrum Noir); Lemon Tart cardstock (Papertrey Ink); watercolors (Michaels); Die-namics Blueprints 21 dies (My Favorite Things); pink sequins (Treehouse Studio); foam tape