Well this sounded like a really fun challenge today, but it took me way longer than it should have. Oh well...live & learn. The reason it took longer is...the first time I die cut the pieces, one of cloud dies slipped & made a mess, so I had to do it over. Which was a little tricky...I had to die cut the whole layer first, then arrange all the pieces, leaving room for the greeting.
Ok, so that was done. Then I had a brilliant (IMHO) idea to use a sheet of one sided sticky label paper instead of tape. I die cut all the images again...but I die cut them from the wrong side. So I did it over. Sigh...I'm sensing a pattern here. I also die cut the umbrella inserts out of the sticker paper because I wanted the masks of release paper. Once again, wrong side..you see where this is going.
Ok, so I place the release paper masks on the areas of the umbrella then use navy glitter on the frame & handle. I pull one mask off at a time and add the other colors. I peel the mask partly back from the bottom of the clouds, add silver glitter, then clear glitter on the tops. Those little raindrops almost made me lose it completely, lol. But I prevailed. Then I temporarily stuck all the glittered images in place from the back side, put permanent adhesive on their back sides and pressed them to the card front. That part actually worked fairly well (yay!!). Then I took the miscut front, trimmed it to match the good one and edged it w/ pink markers before attaching it behind the real front because I wanted a little more dimension. Greeting stamped & I added a glitter button thingie in the upper right.
Whew! And it sounded so simple! Thanks so much for looking! I'll have it on my blog after dinner. The Write Stuff
Date: Monday, April 13, 2015 GMT Views: 1195
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Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs - Shower of Blessings
Paper: Recollections heavy white, sticker label paper
Paper Size: A2
Ink: Versafine Onyx
Accessories: ODBD Umbrella, Cloud & Raindrops, Flourished Star Pattern dies, extra fine glitter in different colors, glitter button, pink Copics, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies
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Registered: February 22, 2006 Location: Casselberry, Florida Posts: 46530
Mon, Apr 13, 2015 @ 7:02 PM
Your painful process has resulted in a wonderful card! Your perseverance has paid off in spades! Your sentiment was the perfect choice for your endeavor.
Way cool! Worth every single effort and re-do! Love how you did the different colors on the umbrella and how the clouds are darker on the bottom with silver glitter. Very creative! Great card!
Registered: June 29, 2004 Location: Sugar Land. Texas Posts: 79895
Mon, Apr 13, 2015 @ 8:58 PM
Love those silver lined clouds!!! Perfect with the sentiment.
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Registered: March 13, 2013 Location: Central Texas Posts: 591
Tue, Apr 14, 2015 @ 8:37 AM
I feel your pain! I too had many missteps & backwards die cuts & started over 3 times! But, I am glad you stuck with it because your card is beautiful!!
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132012
Tue, Apr 14, 2015 @ 12:32 PM
I'd have to say it doesn't look or sound simple to me. Guess why I went for just sprinkling colours on one at a time and letting them mix ;-). I know that trying to get colour separation like you have done is pretty exacting and unforgiving - but it has turned out beautifully. I love the silver-lined clouds but even more I love the rainbow umbrella. I just treated myself to a black umbrella with a rainbow lining today!