This month's inspiration and color palette from Scrapbook.com was full of fun, summery colors and elements. 

I was inspired by the bins of yummy gelato in the mood board as well as the gold. So I combined all those colors and hints of gold into a fun little mixed media project with some mini ice cream cone gelato ATCs.

I started by cutting out some ice cream cones from white textured cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo. I created a few layers, including the cone, the sweet gelato filling and a cute cherry on top. 

Then I used my Tim Holtz blending brushes to add color to each of the layers. I spritzed with my Distress sprayer and dabbed with a lint free cloth then dried between each layer of ink. When I was satisfied with how each piece looked, I used some Distress Oxide and a water brush pen to add the criss-cross lines on the cones. 

Then I sprayed some color mists onto a few white flowers to match my little cones of gelato. I love using my Tim Holtz splat box for this as it really contains the mess. I put a little piece of paper towel under the flowers to help mop up any access liquid. I started the drying process of these flowers with my Ranger Heat It tool then set them aside to finish drying while working on the next part. 

I assembled inked gelato die cuts using foam adhesive to pop the gelato layer and cherry up from the ice cream cone base. I then watered down 3 coordinating Pops of Color to splatter consistency in a paint palette and tapped a paintbrush full of pearlescent color over each of the assembled pieces. I set these aside to dry.

Next I used some cardstock from the A2 Sherbet pad to cut a sentiment and a little piece that reminds me of melted chocolate textured with bubble wrap, like on those fancy cakes and cupcakes where they press the bubble wrap onto a thin layer of melted chocolate or candy melt, let it harden and peel the bubble wrap up for a chocolate decoration that looks like honeycomb? That's what I was going for here! I then spritzed a bit of color mist onto each of the die cut sentiments and allowed these to dry. 

Once all my pieces were fully dry, I placed my little chocolate decoration die cut where I wanted, then added a dab of heavy body gel to the back of the flower and pressed it on top of the bubble die cut. Then I applied Smart Glue randomly over my project so I could add a little gold foil detail--this glue stays tacky after it dries so it's perfect for adding foil. 

I waited for the glue to turn dry (you'll know because it turns clear) and then applied some gold foil flakes to the areas with adhesive and burnished the excess off with a soft brush. (Pro Tip: Practice using Smart Glue on scrap paper so you get used to how much you need to squeeze the bottle for the amount of glue you want--this will keep you from glopping too much glue on your project!)

To finish it all off, I added the sentiment to each gelato as well as some coordinating jewels from Pinkfresh using the Smart Glue. I think these turned out so cute! And now I'm hungry for some gelato! Excuse me while I go raid my freezer now!

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