Showering Mom with Love

Wishing my mom the happiest birthday, I made her a 3D card.  Venturing away from the Inky Antics HoneyPop stamp sets, I am trying to figure out what other shapes I can make with the honeycomb paper on my own.

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.