Front: Precut 5x7 cream card
Cardstocks: pink, blue, cream
Embelishments: cream grosgrain ribbon, blue ribbon
Versa Black ink
Happy Birthday stamp
Silver embossing powder
Inside:
Cardsocks: black, blue, light blue, pale yellow, pink
Cartridge: 3 Birds on Parade - Rain pg30
Pink HoneyComb paper
Heart paper punch
Cut and assemble the Rain bird on page 30 except for the umbrella. Cut the umbrella off the black base at the very top of the handle and set aside. While you will not need all layers of the umbrella, you will still cut Layer 2 in order to get the rain boots.
Cut the top piece off the black umbrella cutout that was set aside. Take the umbrella and fold it in half. Trace that half shape onto the honeycomb paper and cut it out using very sharp, sturdy scissors. I bought the Tim Holtz Micro-serrated scissors for this purpose, my other much cheaper scissors were sliding around making sloppy cuts.
Using a tape runner, I glued the umbrella into my double scored card (you have to double score the center of the card to allow for the extra thickness). Since I am using paper instead of a stamp, I had to place the little bird slightly askew so that the umbrella stem was not directly in the fold. Glue the little piece at the top of the honeycomb umbrella at the same slight angle. I placed the little rain drops on the card and added extra pink heart "rain".
I did not have a great stamp so I wrote the sentiment with an ink pen. While that changes the "feel" of the design, the card is going to my mom, so I think she will like that handwritten touch.
