What better way to celebrate a rainy day than with a handmade rain boots and umbrella card?
I don’t know about you all, but I don’t always mind a rainy day and this handmade rain boots and umbrella card helps capture the feeling of the freshness a good rain can bring. I love the pretty floral accents using patterned paper and these new dies brought to the project and those little raindrops just look so sweet. All these little details come together and even through there are a lot of the, this card is not difficult to make and is sure to make anyone who receives it offer a big, sunny grin.
Card Base and Eyelet Scene Base
- Use white cardstock to cut an A2 sized card base and blue cardstock to cut an 5.50″ x 4.25″ layer for the card base.
- Apply ATG adhesive to the back of the blue layer and attach it to the white card base.
- Use white cardstock to cut the scalloped layer.
- Use green cardstock to cut a grass section and cut it a second time using the scalloped die.
- Cut the slimline cloud section using white cardstock and cut a second time using the scalloped die.
- Apply strips of mounting tape to the back of the main scalloped layer and attach it to the card base.
- Apply strips of mounting tape to the back of both the grass and clouds, line them up and attach them to the white layer.
Umbrella, Rain Boots and Flowers
- Cut the umbrella and rain boots using a pretty designer and matching cardstock.
- Assemble the umbrella and accessory pieces together using glossy accent and pieces of mounting tape.
- The rain boots and accessory pieces were attached together using glossy accents.
- Use green cardstock to cut the foliage and yellow cardstock to cut the flowers.
- Place the flowers face up on the molding pad and form them using a tiny tipped stylus.
- Attach several pieces of foliage to the back of each boot using glossy accents.
- Fill in each foliage bouquet by attaching the tiny flowers using glossy accents.
- Attach the boots to the grass and card base using glossy accents.
- Attach the umbrella to the card base using pieces of mounting tape.
Finish the Card
- Use light blue cardstock to cut the tiny raindrops and attach them to the card base using touches of glossy accents.
- Apply touches of shimmer using the aqua shimmer pen.
- Use green cardstock to cut more foliage sections and pink cardstock to cut more tiny flowers.
- Form the tiny flowers on the molding pad using a tiny tipped stylus.
- Use glossy accents to attach the tiny flowers to the foliage sections.
- Tuck the stems and flowers behind the grass and attach them using glossy accents.
This pretty card screams spring to me. Umbrellas are so fun to use on card fronts. Check out my Happy Spring Card and Pretty Backgrounds Beach Card to see other fun ways to use umbrellas on your card fronts.
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You might think there aren’t a lot of calls for a handmade rain boots and umbrella card but when you think about it, sending this to someone who is facing any kind of challenge or difficulty will surely let them see that you appreciate their feelings and want to bring them the hope of a new, fresh day.
Kittie, this is just the sweetest card! Those boots and umbrella are to die for, CUTE!!! I am continually amazed at the tiny pieces that you work with, to create your amazing scenes! I tried working with the 1/8″ circles and it about drove me crazy, but I think I might have to get the tiny flowers die and some greenery! I’m looking at the Southwest dies, too, as I saw Julie’s card yesterday and fell in love with them. I live in Nevada now, after 57 years in Alaska, so they really appeal to me! I always enjoy your winter scenes, too! Thanks for your inspiration! Sue, (suen on Splitcoast Stampers))
Thank you Sue! I have a trick for working with tiny parts and pieces like the 1/18″ circles. I don’t place them directly on my work desk because they move around too much and are hard to pick up. I place them on my molding pad and use my reverse tweezers to pick them, apply the glue and then put them in place with my tweezers. The molding pad is soft and allows the tweezer tips to slide under the small piece easily to pick it up. Oh…..and I wear really strong reading glasses! I hope this makes sense.
Love all the flowers. So delicate!
Well thanks to your lovely cards and tutorials I had to get all the dies for this umbrella and boots card. Lucky its black friday prom too. My head is swimming with ideas.
I bent tip reverse tweezers but, the tip is too thick for teeny pieces. I would like to know what brand of reverse tweezers you use and is the tip slim?
Thank you Chris