Hello again friends!

It's Raquel here and today I'm back on the blog with a special post. I'm sharing some adorable Ice cream truck folding cards that will make a fun gift, tag or even use for birthdays decoration.  

The process is quite simple really. It just requires a little fussy cutting and lots of fun decorating them with your favorite color combos and turning them into shaker trucks.

Here's the process to create these folding Ice cream truck cards:

1. Ink blend your truck using the Ice cream truck  layering stencils with your favorite color combos. I created six trucks with the following color combination: Mint truck: Mint, Meadow, Sweet Mustard, Sparkling rose. Light Turquoise truck: Ocean Breeze, Aquamarine, Mermaid Cove, Sparkling Rose and Mustard Seed. Yellow truck: Lemon Whip, Marigold, Sparkling Rose, Bubble Gum and Mint. Pink Truck: Ballet Slipper, Sparkling Rose, Raspberry Bliss, Sweet Mustard and Sky Blue. Coral Truck: Coral Reef, Peony, Candy Apple, Sweet Mustard, Sunkissed and Mimosa. Blue truck: Waterfall, Turquoise, Paradise, Sparkling Rose and Lemon Whip. For the bear and ice cream cones I used Warm Buff and Doe.

2. Stamp the coordinating stamp set onto the little bear and ice creams images with Detail Black Ink.

3. Cut it out with the coordinating die make some partial die cutting passes: First pass: Place your top cutting plate right up to the upper part of the wheels because we don't want to cut them out. 

4. Run it through and then place your cutting place right on top of the lower part of the wheels so we get the marks of these wheels avoiding cutting them out. Run it through. 

5. Put this folded piece aside and use your Ice cream truck to cut out an ice cream truck out of a scrap paper or white cardstock. Use this die cut truck as a template to trace the outline of the truck on top of your previously folded Ice cream truck.

6. Finally, fussy cut the parts that weren't cut out. 6. Tip: If your want a backdrop for your folded Ice Cream truck, use the ice cream truck diecut template to outline your truck onto a piece of cardstock and fussy cut it.

7. Create the shaker window: adhere a piece of acetate on the back of the windows, add some double sided foam adhesive, pour some shaker bits and add a partially inked up piece of cardstock on top.

8. Adhere this shaker truck onto the folded ice cream truck and fill the windows witl the spare diecut window pieces.

9. Decorate your truck: I used the little bear and ice creams from this set but you can by all means use other images.

10. For the sentiment, you can simply stamp one of the sentiments from the Ice Cream Truck stamp set onto the rectangle section of the truck or be creative and add  a banner or other sentiments from this set or from other stamp sets. I white heat embossed several sentiments, inked them up with the same color or the truck and cut them out with the coordinating die or Bassic Banner die set.

11. Finally tuck in  the top ice cream truck. I reinforced my ice cream with some foam adhesive and an additional ice cream diecut on the back.

These little trucks are perfect for birthdays parties and of course to hand deliver with a gift card inside.

Hope you give this idea a try and have fun creating!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Raquel