Cheerful Rain Boots and May Showers - Clean & Layered Card

We are finally getting our "April" rain here. 

Someone must have forgotten to tell Mother Nature

to flip her calendar because this April and May have,

until recently, been two of the driest we can remember in our region.

The birds are out enjoying themselves tremendously though and

my bird-watching buddies and I have really enjoyed observing them.

 

And thank goodness I found some rain boots that fit the boys
a few weeks ago, because this spring rain

has been just right for stomping. 

 

All together, It's put me in a happy rainy mood.

So here you are....

  

I triple-masked a single boot and sentiment stamp to make this card.

First the foreground boot, masking off the sentiment.

Next the background boot, masking off the first boot.

I did this twice in order to fussy cut one set and get some dimension.  Then

I masked around the pair of boots to do the gray rain splatters

using Altenew's snow mini-stamp.

The sentiment is actually the side-piece of the mask, which has been

overstamped a couple of times.  I didn't bother to include the whole thing,

since the "April Showers Bring May Flowers" saying

pops to mind as soon as you see even portions of the words.

 

My clouds are hand-cut and then I used a tissue wiped in

London Fog Memento ink to streak some very light shadows and cloudbursts.

 

 The sunshine is a fussy-cut flower center from the Happy Day Papertrey ink set.

Here are the challenges!  I particularly liked the layered
triangles of this sketch, and that's what gave me the idea to mask all the elements
instead of a more straightforward stamp-and-go approach.  I still have some
more ideas brewing for this sketch though, so CAS{E} hasn't seen the last of me this week ;).
 

CAS{E} this Sketch #173:

 

 

PALS Paper Arts #301: Color challenge from Rae Harper

Great colors, what can I say?

Aqua I've always loved.  Yellows are a fairly new thing for me,

but I like it. I'm not so much a pop-of-pink decorator in my home or wardrobe,

but the mustard yellows I really enjoy. 

Just ask my fabric stash sometime.

 

Other challenges:

 

Fashionable Stamping #111: Blots and Splashes (2nd entry)

*I can assure you that 'blots and splashes' were CERTAINLY on my mind

 on this rainy rainy day as the boys put their rain boots on...

and came in for an early bath.  Splish splash everywhere!

 

Creative Knockouts #142: Finish the Inside

 The aqua misting rain on the inside is difficult to pick out in this photo...
my apologies.

 

Materials Used on this Card:

Cardstock {White; Aqua mist - Papertrey Ink}  

Stamps {Studio G; Altenew; Papertrey Ink}

Inks {glacier Lake - Colorbox; London Fog - Memento;

Harvest gold, Lemon Tart - Papertrey Ink}

Glossy Accents {Ranger}

Sparkle embossing powder {Recollections}

Thank you SO MUCH for visiting!

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International crafters as well.

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Take care,

Be well,

and enjoy the rainshowers!

--Kathryn