Finally, I got to play with the Sweet Ice Cream Stamp Set and since it’s so close to the holiday, I made them into Sweet Ice Cream 4th of July Bars! I got the idea from a t-shirt design I saw online! You never know where inspiration will come from! As I played around with stamping the ice cream bars, I ended up with five of them and by golly, I was determined to use all five on this card!

The card base is Pacific Point Cardstock. You could certainly use another color of blue. The layer is, of course, Real Red. The ice cream bars were stamped on Basic White and then cut out by hand and adhered to the top Basic White layer of the card.

The Sweet Ice Cream Stamp Set comes with ice cream bar shapes, ice cream cones, and scoops of ice cream, sprinkles, and wonderful greetings to use for many occasions. The ice cream bars have a kind of a textured look to the stamp and are actually two-step stamping as you put the top and bottom of the ice cream bar (or popsicle) together. I tried to leave some white area on the bars so I would have red, white, and blue. Even on these bars, it was good to put a few sprinkles with red or blue for some added interest.

To ink up these stamps, I used regular ink pads and sometimes also Stampin’ Write Markers in Real Red and Pacific Point. These markers are good for coloring right on the stamp however you like to put the color where you want it. I even colored on my own stripes using these markers, just drawing them in after I stamped the ice cream bar. The little popsicle sticks are stamped by coloring the edge with the Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker and then coloring in with the same color. I just glued the sticks to the back of the ice cream with a dot of Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

The three background ice cream bars are adhered right to the card. The two front ice cream bars are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is in the stamp set and is stamped in Real Red Ink. I love the greeting on this card!

And that’s it! Now you have a patriotic card in red, white, and blue for the 4th of July holiday! Here’s another card I made YEARS AGO for July 4th!

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If you have the Sweet Ice Cream Stamp Set, you can make a patriotic card for the 4th of July with red, white, and blue ice cream like this card with Sweet Ice Cream 4th of July Bars!