Yesterday afternoon we finally got the tropical rain in Houston that they had been predicting since Monday from the storm in the Gulf of Mexico heading into Mexico. ‘Tis the season of unpredictable tropical weather of all kinds. That’s how this Playing in the Rain Rainy Day Card came about!
I started getting out some stamp sets and cardstock to make the card idea in my head when I saw the Playing In The Rain Stamp Set on the shelf. It was carried over into the new Annual Catalog! If I had remembered I had the matching dies, I might have made this card a little differently, but I like it as is. Since it was pouring down rain at the moment this seemed like the perfect stamp set to use.
I chose Smoky Slate for the card base to go along with gray clouds on a rainy day. For a layer, I chose Azure Afternoon because I have barely used that color and because it seemed like the right blue for this card. I just stamped a little rainy day scene on the card with Memento Ink on Basic White and colored in with Stampin’ Blends Markers. I made a mask of the bunny dancing in the rain puddle to cover him so I could then stamp the raindrops closer to him. If I had thought about it ahead of time, I would have stamped the whole background scene and then stamped the bunny separately and diecut him so I could pop him up on the card against the background. But either way is okay!
For coloring the clouds, I lightly colored them with Light Smoky Slate, leaving a little bit of white space on most, then added little bits of Dark Smoky Slate around some of the edges of the clouds. I thought that made it look a little stormy but not really bad. For the background, I just kind of scribbled with Pool Party and then went over some areas with Balmy Blue to give the sky some color. On the ground around the flowers, I colored in with Light Soft Sea Foam. The flowers are colored with Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, and a few with purple. The leaves are Granny Apple Green. The colors don’t matter. You can choose whichever ones you like.
The greeting is in the Playing In The Rain Stamp Set and is stamped with Azure Afternoon ink on Basic White. I needed to cut it out with a small die so it would fit fine on the card front. I found this one in the Unbounded Love Dies and it was the perfect size for my greeting. I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. All in all, this turned out to be a fun card to make on a rainy afternoon!
Here is another card I made back in January 2023 using the Playing in the Rain Stamp Set and the Rain Or Shine Specialty Designer Series Paper (retired). It’s a fun stamp set to use for sure!