Under The Weather

 

Hello friends!  I hope you are well.  I recently needed a get-well card and realized that I really hadn’t made very many, so I definitely needed to change that.  I figured a good start would be to use this cute little friend from Gerda Steiner Designs.  Gerda always captures a moment.  This stamp set is called Under The Weather.

To create the background, I blended Uncharted Mariner, Peacock Feathers and Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide Ink.  Once I liked how it looked, I spritzed it with a little water and then spattered a little silver metallic watercolor. 

Although I have both a raindrop background die and a stencil, I thought that the Stitched Windy Backdrop die from Lawn Fawn would give me a more subtle pattern. 

I used the On Solid Ground stamp from My Favorite Things for the cobblestone sidewalk.  Once I cut that out, I quickly realized that I was going to have to lift that sidewalk up a little bit to be able to get my little friend higher up towards the top of the card.  I decided that I could cut a strip of grass using the Grassy Border die from Lawn Fawn, which was also a perfect place to add my sentiment. 

Once I had the grassy piece cut out, I added a little Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide to add a little dimension.  I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder. 

After I attached the grass and sidewalk to the card, I was still looking for a little more height, so I added a little fence using the Little Farm Fence from Lawn Fawn.  I used a really light gray cardstock for the fence and added a little Pumice Stone Distress Oxide Ink to tone it down a little.  

Coloring in my little mouse was the fun part of the card.  I used Copic Markers in the following colors:

• Y15, Y19, Y38 - yellows
• W00, W1, W3 - mouse
• R05, R14, R29 - reds
• BG23, BG13, BG18 - blue greens
• R20, R21 - pink accent
• YR23, YR24, YR27 - bricks

 

Once I had my mouse attached, I added some little hearts as my raindrops and a few little clouds.  The clouds were cut from Lawn Fawn’s Simple Puffy Cloud Frames.  That is one of my favorite dies because it gives you the cloud shape but it still allows the background to show. 

I just love the way this card turned out. He is just so cute with his little umbrella! 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you aren’t feeling “Under The Weather”.

 

Sandy