Thursday, April 29, 2010

Royal Blog Tour: Sweet Scoops (of Ice Cream)!

(UPDATE May 4: Scroll down for Blog Candy Winner!)


Welcome to my UTAH Ice Cream Castle along the Royal Blog Tour featuring the SWEET SCOOPS stamp set from the Stampin' Up! Summer Mini Catalog!


Confession: I have an incurable sweet tooth, and when it comes to stamps of food...I'm totally addicted! On the last blog tour, I used cupcakes, so it only follows that you need ICE CREAM with your cake, right? Did you know the average U.S. citizen consumes an average of 5 1/2 gallons of ice cream each year? 
 The petite size of these "cones" make perfect gift tags. More trivia: More ice cream is sold on Sunday (Sundae?) than any other day of the week!
 
Is your mouth watering yet? I call this card Double Dippin' (kudos to fellow princess Tami F. for the card pattern!) The sentiment is from the stamp set A Little Birthday Cheer and I'm so happy that Baja Breeze is one of the colors returning to Stampin' Up!'s new color palette in July :)
This next card is called Cherry Topper ~ have you ever had a dipped cone? Scrumptious! But at one time, it was illegal to serve ice cream on top of cherry pie in Kansas...
To make a "shiny" ice cream cone (like the Cherry Topper), just add Crystal Effects over your stamped image (Dazzling Diamonds glitter, optional).
Here's the scoop: 25% of Baskin Robbins' ice cream sales are Vanilla! This card covers the other 30 flavors (sentiments also from A Little Birthday Cheer):
 
So, dear traveler, if you are refreshed by your stop here and would like to enter to win my BLOG CANDY (yum...another food related metaphor!), please subscribe to my blog and/or newsletter in right column (U.S. non-SU! demonstrators only, please) and you could win the Lots of Thoughts stamp set and Tag Punch (shown below with one more Sweet Scoops sample)! That's better than a hot fudge and caramel sundae, and with much fewer calories :)
If you enjoyed your visit, please leave me a comment! Don't forget to collect clues along the Royal Path to enter the BIG SHOT drawing at the Royal Blog Tour homepage, and if you are ever in Utah, let's go out for ice cream!


MAY 4th~Drum Roll please....and the Blog Candy Winner is:

GALE SEWELL!

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments, joining my newsletter and following my blog!



43 comments:

Sharon Field / Inky A*Muse-ment said...

Gosh, I guess I have to buy this stamp set now too!! Love your projects, Loni!

stampingmadly said...

Great projects, Loni. Makes me want to go get some ice cream! And order this set! Looks like you had a lot of fun conjuring up these sweet treats.

Anita said...

Yummy projects! anitamocha@charter.net

Candi said...

Too cute and yummy! reminds me of my ice cream parlor I had 25 years ago! Thanks for sharing

Teri C said...

Ok, it's only 9:30 am and I'm drooling for ice cream! Love your projects!

Martha Lucia Gomez said...

Loni, congratulations you did a beutiful projects. Thank you for be part of this wonderful tour.
Martha Lucia Gomez
http://stampartpapel.blogspot.com

Cindy Jenkins said...

Wow....now I think I'm going to have to get that set!!! Great projects
scamfam4469@sbcglobal.net

Sandi100 said...

Love the ice cream scoop ideas for this summer. Great card projects. Thanks for sharing. I love the tour!

jenn said...

I knew I would get this set as soon as I saw it and now I have a few more ideas on how to use it. And since I am in Utah, anytime you want to go out for ice cream, give me a call. I'm always up for a scoop. These are great ideas, especially the cherry one with Crystal Effects.

Mary Campbell said...

Great projects. Thanks for sharing.

Unknown said...

Very cute..

sharon said...

You have come up with many uses for the ice cream. I just want to eat it! LOL!
Sharon L
sharon.lemon@sbcglobal.net

Diane Burns said...

Love all your Sweet Scoops creations. Great ideas for cards. Subscribed to your blog. Love your work!

"LZ" Linda Z. said...

I Am subscribed to your blog. Great cards! Can't wait to get this set. Thanks so much!

lrzaworski@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Lee Conrey! said...

Great job on these card. I love them all and for sure have been inspired by your talent

Janet said...

I want some ice cream now!!! GREAT cards! Thanks for sharing your ideas.....

Sandi said...

I want my ice cream too!! Awesome job, thanks for sharing.
Sandi Dailey
gdailey@concentric.net

Carol said...

OK, the blog right before yours was all about cupcakes . . . now the ice cream to go with the cupcakes! LOL What GREAT projects! Love everything!!! Thank you for taking the time to share your time and talent.
CAL8946 at HOTMAIL dot COM
http://StampAlley.blogspot.com

Babe O'Mara said...

Love your sweet treats. Great looking cards. Thanks for sharing. Babe O'Mara
youiesmom@att.net

lisa808 said...

I have a serious sweet tooth too! I so enjoyed your yummy projects and fun bits of trivia. Thanks for the chance to win your blog candy. I signed up for E-mail updates.

Judy said...

Loni, Love your sweet shoppe! Great designs. It's good to see something new and different! Thanks for being a part of this wonderful tour!

Unknown said...

Cute projects, Loni! I love your ice cream background. That's a fab idea! Thanks for helping to make our Path "Plum Perfect!" ;)
Jen Holliday

Marti said...

Love your projects - great inspiration for using this set.
I'll be coming back often.
Marti Crapo

Carol Stamps said...

Yummmm. Now I'm craving ice cream to eat while I finish the blog tour. Thanks for the adorable projects.

karen moyer said...

Loni, I love your cards with this fun set. And HOW in the world did you come up with all those "ice cream statistics"???? (I joined your blog, too.)

Sandy Hentzel said...

How fun, I love your yummy projects! TFS!

Carolyn Sharkas said...

Love your projects and this is a set I didn't think I would buy, thanks for enabling me.

Cathleen McSorley said...

I definitely will get this set. Friend made cards with it for a meeting and they were so cute. They look so real. I love the card with the cones all over the front of the card. Thanks for sending me to the frig for some ice cream. LOL

A Touch of SOL said...

Yummy projects and candy
Marisol Gutierrez

Wanda said...

great projects causing me to want ice cream - but it puts me to sleep, and wake up feeling badly. LOL Thanks for chance to win your blog candy. Wanda wamcglamery at gmail dot com

Unknown said...

I love all of your projects.... definetely satisfied my sweet tooth!

Thanks so much for sharing!!!

xoxo
Ola
okj83 at live dot com

Unknown said...

thanks for sharing great ideas. will use some this summer for a social.

Kitty A. said...

So many samples, and all of them are wonderful! You did a wonderful job, and I have signed up for a steady dose of inspiration. Thanks!

Kit Marie

Unknown said...

Loni,
I must get this scrumptious set! Thanks for the cool ideas! Kimberly

Kathy Mc said...

Subscribed to your blog and love your creative juices. Who doesn't like ice cream, especially in a cone? Enjoyed your trivia also. Cool castle in our blog tour and thanks for the blog candy offer!

bdlakebum at yahoo dot com

Waipahu CBDO dba Waipahu Community Coalition said...

Great projects- I want to get some ice cream now! I liked your little factoids in your blog! TFS

Lucia Kaiser said...

Loni: You've given me a whole new appreciation for ice cream cones. These are all so adorable.

Thanks for being part of the tour

Barbara V said...

Loni, you created some awesome cards with the "ice cream cone" set. Thanks for the inspiration.

Tina said...

Love the cards, especially the one using the set as the background. TFS!
Tina
tinataves.blogspot.com

Tammy Q Howell said...

Yummy Wish I could eat ice cream. LOL Your cards are so cute. I love the chocolate striped ribbon used on one of the cards.

AndiF said...

love the last card with all the different ice creams. definitely NOT a vanilla card! :-)

andi

Unknown said...

I really feel like going out for an ice-cream sundae now! Thanks so much for your great designs, and also for the neat trivia! It was fun to read!

Warmly,
sarahsc@comcast.net

latricia said...

subscibed to your blog... candy or not ... i love your ideas.. super cute stuff ... will be adding you to my list of favs also.. love this tour...latricia_nelson@silsbeetoyota.com