It's mid-April and time for a new Color Hues Challenge. Hannelie has chosen Yellow and Pink for this challenge.
I was determined to create something a bit out of my comfort zone. The first card I created was just OK. I'll send the card, but I wanted to try something else for the challenge. As I was looking through my dies I came upon a Memory Box die set (dated 2015) that I've had for many years, but never used. The images in Rain or Shine, are small so it took me awhile to figure out how to use them. The old familiar saying "April showers bring May flowers" was going through my head as I looked at the dies. The rain and the umbrellas were right there, but I needed to find the sentiment as well as some flowers.
By lining up the "rain" image and repeating it I got a square of rain drops. The two cute umbrellas paper-pieced with old AMuse papers fit right on there. Luckily I had two of the (also very old) Papertrey Ink sets from the Monthly Moments sets that gave me most of my sentiment.
I layered the umbrellas with two pieces of heavy cardstock and the handles with two of the handle die cuts for a bit of dimension.
Finding the word "bring" turned out to be the most time-consuming part of the card. I could have used the computer, but I wanted the message to be on one layer. My collection of Christmas stamps turned out to be the best option. I found a couple different ones, but this one from Waffle Flowers Oversized Joy fit perfectly. I found the little flowers in The Greetery's BotaniCut Strawberries set, and I popped them up with teeny pieces of dimensional foam.
We're hoping for lots of May flowers here, but the bulk of them won't be planted until Memorial Day so there's still lots of time for April showers. Personally, I'm hoping for lots of April sunshine!!! When this post goes live, we'll be in South Carolina so we're more likely to be enjoying sunshine than we would be in Rochester.
I hope this color combo inspires you to create a card for our gallery at Color Hues. Be sure to check out the Design Teams clever and beautiful cards!
This is going to the NBUS blog. This might be one of the oldest unused die sets in my collection! It's also going to Juat Us Girls where the Word Week Challenge is Rain. How lucky am I as this challenge closes at 9:00 tonight!
