Sunday Stampers: Tropical Vibes
Allsorts: Showers
Little Red Wagon: April Showers
I knew this was going to have the sky line with yellow and orange, so used shimmer sprays first in the top left corner of a white Text Vellum paper. Then sponged even more orange with ink pad. Next came the two greens that are stamped on the edges. Blue is the ink pad smooched on stamp block then used wet brush to water color along grass. I added white gel pen to add the effect of light shining through the rain, but really it covers a splotch of a fat finger covered in blue ink. The rain drops are my stencil with clear transfer gel left to dry. The leaf tag is hand drawn and cut out of vellum then added Silhouette cut sentiment. Mat and layered on copy paper with blue copic colored edge and smaller one is white copy paper. Mounted all on white cs base.
Tip: Never stop learning. I am taking the Spring Card Camp with the gals at Online Card Classes . It has offered many ideas, some straight out of the session and some I find I am piggy backing on. The idea used here was to layer several of your die cut sentiments on a vellum tag. Nothing new with that, but the kicker for me was to add another layer of the sentiment to the back of the tag. This gives it that little lift and something to glue to.
Paper Crafter at large 
Wow! Love the scene you created. I can nearly feel the rain!! Awesome card, Bonnie!!
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That is so sweet of you Jan. Who says that it has to be gray sky for rain?
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I’m with Jan on this one. It is awesome and your rain is so realistic. Love everything about this card and agree that we should never stop learning. Suspect your tip of putting the sentiment underneath the tag as well as on top is a Jen Mcguire one.
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Actually it was CHANNIN PELLETIER during her session on using stencils on day 9 of Card Camp.
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Great tropical card! Your leaves look like they are blowing in the rain. Great cover up of the ink splotch; looks like all the white was planned. Love your greeting on (and under) your vellum leaf; I also saw that tip in Channin’s class and was thinking I should try it.
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Thanks so much. Her class was so fun but now I am playing with my homemade embossing paste and glitter. She really got me going in an other direction.
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Love this card. Glad you are learning new ideas in the class. I would not have thought that you hand cut and drew the leaf. It looks like a die.
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The rain is so realistic. Your leaves are lovely. Thanks for sharing another cool tip.
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It was such a fun way to make the rain. I had never used transfer gel for this before but it seems to have worked!
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I kind of cheated. Stamped the leaf then drew around several times till it was a good size. Thanks for getting me to the class and for the support on this card.
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Beautiful, Bonnie – love all your tips and tricks – what lovely layers and textures! Thanks so much for playing at Sunday Stamps!
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It would sad to miss. So much fun to be a part.
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Love the shower on your card, it’s a great layout. Thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts.
Lynn x
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What a beautiful card!! The sky looks amazing and the design is simply lovely!
Thanks for joining us at Little Red Wagon this week!
Kate
Small Bits of Paper
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A lovely background and some super colours and images. Thank you for joining our ‘Flowers or Showers’ challenge at Allsorts.
Kath x
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I don’t do showers much, so was great to see what I could come up with.
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Amazing card, Bonnie, the rain and sky is fantastic…really outdid yourself on this one.
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Thanks, so happy you like my rain and sunny sky. Sure was fun to make.
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This whole card is wonderful, but those raindrops are an outstanding touch.
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No idea where I got the idea but sure glad it worked.
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Bonnie, this is a work of art! I love all the different techniques you used for your card. So many fun textures going on! Thanks so much for playing along with Sunday Stamps! new challenge this week. 🙂
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