Home Sweet Gnome and Spring Showers Cards with Rachel and Candice

Hello crafty friends, Rachel here! I hope you are all doing well! I have found that setting aside a few minutes each day to be crafty has helped me to keep some semblance of normalcy during these crazy times. 

I have a slimline card to share with you today that features both the adorable Home Sweet Gnome and Backyard Bugs stamp sets. I love creating slimline cards when I have a bunch of images that I want to use in one card without it looking too crowded. To start, I first stamped all of my images with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto a sheet of Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. I then colored them with Copic Markers, cut them out, and then set them aside to work on my background.

For my background, I trimmed a piece of smooth white card stock to 8.25" x 3.25" and then blended the top section with some Blueprint Sketch and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Inks. I then die cut a strip of grass from white card stock using the grass die from the Sunny Sentiments Die Set. Once cut, I then blended it with some Bundled Sage and Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Inks to give it some color. Next, I stamped my sentiment with Black Ink onto the lower right side of my card and then added everything to my card base with some 3D Foam Adhesive Tape. Lastly, I added both a white and blue trim to my card using colored card stock so that my final card measurement would be 8.5" x 3.5".

Thanks so much for dropping by! Wishing you all a safe and healthy weekend!

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Hello fellow Crafters! Candice with you today with a rainbow umbrella rain shaker, slimline style! This interactive card was inspired by a fellow DT member Ashley Ebben, who sent me a rain shaker card that made my day! 

I used a few Sunny Studio products to create my interactive card:

• Spring Showers stamps & coordinating dies
• Fluffy Clouds Border dies
• Comic Strip Speech Bubbles die (sun)

I began with an 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 card base which will fit nicely into your standard size envelopes. For my background, I trimmed a piece of Bristol smooth to fit the card front, inked with black soot, chipped sapphire, faded jeans & blueprint sketch and then splattered with water, white paint & navy shimmer spray.

While that dried, I die cut the stitched clouds, inking the tops lightly with stormy sky and stamped the sentiment on the bottom cloud. Next, I stamped the umbrellas, colored them in rainbow with copic markers, and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

To create the "rain" element, I adhered a strip of foam tape along the bottom and top of the inked front and marked with a pencil every 1/4" to line up the thread. I then added some 1/4" scor-tape over the foam tape for extra stickiness, adhered the thread on the top, strung the beads and pulled tight to the bottom. As I worked my way across, I added a second strip of scor-tape over the thread to hold it firmly, pressing as I finished each row. 

After I was done with the last one, I added another strip of foam tape on top. This allows the beads to move freely along the card and under the clouds. To put it all together, I added the clouds over the threads and layered the sun and umbrellas with foam tape too.

Thank you for visiting and I hope your day is a bright one!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Backyard Bugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Backyard Bugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Sentiments Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Home Sweet Gnome Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Home Sweet Gnome Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio