Tremendous Tuesday to everyone out there. And, it truly is tremendous, at least here in the heartland, as it RAINED this morning. Yes, RAIN! I, and everyone else in this neck of the woods am/are ecstatic, and VERY thankful. You see, we have had no rain (unless you count about one half inch total over 6 times of trying to rain) since the third week of May. The corn is tasseled and beginning to silk, which means it will need moisture to fill those kernels. And, I don’t have to water my hostas.
Since I am doing a happy dance, my card today reflects my attitude.
Using Weather Together stamps and the Umbrella Weather framelits, I created a card to celebrate our good fortune.
Card cuts will be at the end of the post.
First cut the card base. I decided it would be a tent style Basic Gray base. Next is a Crushed Curry mat on which I glued a piece of light gray dotted paper which reminded me of raindrops. My art piece started as a Smokey Gray background with umbrellas, clouds and raindrops.
First I stamped in Crushed Curry on Daffodil Yellow the striped umbrella and cut it with the matching die. The long umbrella handle was cut from Basic Gray and glued directly on the gray mat, with the striped umbrella.
Then I die cut a Basic Gray and a Whisper White umbrella using the die with three sections. I cut the white one apart and glued the outside pieces to the gray umbrella, which I had stamped but wouldn’t have needed that step, leaving the center section gray. This was adhered to the mat using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The handle was stamped using the shorter, straight handle in Basic Gray ink on Basic Gray cardstock. I glued this to another piece of Basic Gray and fussy cut them together. I decided it needed to be thicker so I glued two more scraps together and glued it to my handle before fussy cutting around the original handle. Perfect. This was adhered using liquid glue.
Next, I needed clouds. Two of the large ones and one smaller one were cut from Whisper White, with one of the large ones becoming a storm cloud with a little Smokey Gray ink and Blender Pen. The white ones were liquid glued to the mat with the dark cloud adhered with Stampin’ Dimensionals overlapping the smaller one.
Using Basic Gray ink and the raindrops stamp, I stamped raindrops falling from the clouds. To dress things up a little, I die cut plain raindrops, not the heart-shaped ones, out of Silver Foil. I have to tell you that this is a tedious bit of work! Those raindrops are very tiny, easily lost, and not-so-easily glued to my card.
The Celebrate! sentiment in Basic Black from the Weather Together stamp set completed the card front.
For the inside I stamped the 3 piece umbrella in Daffodil Yellow on a piece of Whisper White, and added a Basic Gray handle. Over this I stamped my sentiment. That sentiment is one I really like and is from Gina K. Designs. I thought it very appropriate for this card, to reflect my joy over a bit of rain. This was glued to another piece of the gray dotted paper and onto a piece of Crushed Curry. This was then glued into my card base. I wanted the inside brighter, so I made the crushed curry more dominant by cutting the dots and Whisper White pieces a bit smaller than I normally would.
We really do need to be thankful for small things. I am thankful today, not only for the rain, but for each of you following this blog. Thank you very much.
The envelope got the usual patterned paper on the flap,
and, a Daffodil Yellow umbrella stamped on the front, along with a Smokey Slate handle and some Smokey Slate raindrops. I hope you like this card and remember to be thankful for the little things.
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Card Cuts:
Basic Gray: Base 4-1/4″ x 11″ Scored at 5-1/2″, Umbrella, handles-scraps; Crushed Curry: Front mat 4-1/8″ x 5-3/8″, inside mat 4″ x 5-1/4″; Daffodil Delight: Umbrella-scrap; Smokey Gray: art piece background 3-3/4″ x 5″; Dotted Gray paper: Front mat 4″ x 5-1/4″, inside mat 3-1/2″ x 4-3/4″, envelope flap-scrap; Whisper White
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