When I decided to make several cards for my blog and for my stamping newsletter with this Rain Or Shine Suite in the Spring Mini Catalog because they were forecasting some bad weather here in Houston, I didn’t realize what was coming down the pike, as they say. We were fine at our house, no worries, but we did have really heavy rain in the afternoon and the wind was blowing like crazy. The TV was beeping with those loud buzzes of weather warnings, and text messages about thunderstorms, possible tornadoes, and street flooding possible. We got a little less than two inches of rain and a couple of dead branches knocked off our big tree, but that was all. However, on the other side of town a damaging tornado struck and we learned a new term, “Tornado Emergency”. Apparently, it’s been around several years but never used in Houston. I think basically it means a real tornado has been spotted on the ground and you better take cover NOW! So lots of people today are having to figure out how to get their lives back in order after suffering through some pretty bad damage over in southeast Houston.
However, this foxy guy must live on our side of town where we just had light rain in the morning and no damage in the afternoon. It’s actually a slight copy of the sample in the Spring Mini, but not exactly. The card base is Mango Melody with a layer of “the other side” of the Rain Or Shine 12″ x 12″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. I love this plaid with just the even lines in Mango Melody. Even though it is “raining” on the card, the color and paper design makes it look “happy”!
The “rainy” piece of designer paper is cut at 2 1/4″ x 5 1/4″. If you can’t see it in the photo, the raindrops have a special coating on them to make them shiny, as do some other images in this pack of paper. Just adhere this rainy paper to the left on the card front.
The little fox is stamped in Memento ink from the Playing In the Rain Stamp Set. I colored him in with Stampin’ Blends Markers. I used Cajun Craze and Ivory for the fox, Mint Macaron for his jacket and hat, and Highland Heather for his umbrella. There is a die for him in the Playing in the Rain Dies. Get the stamp set and dies in the Playing in the Rain Bundle and save 10% by buying them together. He is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals just off the edge of the rain paper.
The greeting is in another stamp set, Celebrating You. It was the perfect size to be die cut with the almost square die in the Stitched Rectangles. It is adhered flat on the card.
For finishing touches, I cut out a line of flowers from the flower paper in the Rain Or Shine DSP and adhered it to the bottom of the rainy paper. Two butterflies were cut out with the Playing in the Rain Dies and I colored on them a little bit with Stampin’ Blends. The teeny tiny flowers stuck around the card are the Loose Daisy Embellishments. They are very teeny tiny so besides gluing them down with a teeny tiny drop of glue, you could also use them in a Shaker Card. Did I mention they are small?!
This was a fun card to make and I daresay the whole Rain Or Shine Suite Collection is fun! The dies have extra pieces like a fence, butterflies, grass, a kite, and unopened umbrella and more. You really can plan a “scene” for your card or project using all these fun products!
