Artisan Design Team - Rain or Shine Suite

 

 

Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today, I'll be sharing with you two projects I created for the February Monthly Artisan Assignment using the Rain or Shine Suite. I had a couple of photos from a trip to Queensland about 11 years ago and I knew they would be perfect for a mini pocket scrapbook page with this suite. It was a rainy tropical day and the kids just loved to play in the rain! 

The Artisan Design Team are featuring the Rain or Shine Suite on Stampin' Up! Facebook and Instagram page where you'll sure to be inspired by everyone's creations, I'll add the link at the end of my blog. 

The Rain or Shine Suite (160556) is located on page 50 to 51 of the Stampin' Up! January - April 2023 Mini Catalogue. The bundle includes the following items. Playing in the Rain Bundle (160551) with (10% bundle savings), Raindrops embossing Folder (160554), Loose Daisy Embellishments (160555) and Rain or Shine 12" x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper. This suite is perfect for card making and or scrapbooking and those cute daisies are so much fun to use on your projects.

Rain or Shine Suite (160555)

Mini Pocket Scrapbook Page

I created these cute 3" x 4" cards and placed them inside the Stampin' Up! Variety Pack 6"x 8" Photo Pocket Pages (144205) they are to be used with the Basic Black 6" x 8" Album (144203) which is sold separately. 

I just love the fun stamped images especially the cute bunny dancing in the rain or sunshine. I used Stazon Ink and stamnped the images onto Shimmery White Cardstock. The images are water coloured in using Water Painters, inks and I like to have a bowl of water to control how much water I use and a paper towel. 

The colours from the photos went well with the Rain or Shine Specialty Designer Series Paper, I also added Real Red for the rabbit's raincoat and Starry Sky for the fox's raincoat and umbrella.

Rainy Days Card

For my second project I created a card using all of the products from the Rain or Shine Suite. I really liked the combination of Starry Sky with Balmy Blue and Mango Melody. The Balmy Blue background panel is dried embossed using the Raindrops Embossing Folder, then I added Starry Sky and Orchid Oasis inks and applied with the Blending Brush.

I used the cloud dies from Playing in the Rain Dies and die-cut them out in Basic White Cardstock and added a little of Starry Sky ink to the edges of the clouds.

My favourite sheet of paper from Rain or Shine DSP would have to be the flowers in Mango Melody and incorporated it by adding a strip under the sentiment and Baker's Twine.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my projects by leaving a comment below. Make sure you pop over onto Stampin' Up! Facebook page or Stampin' Up! Instagram page for lots of inspiration using the Rain or Shine Suite.

If you would like a copy of the Stampin' Up! Jan - April 2023 Mini, Saleabration Jan - Feb 2023 or the Annual Catalogue 2022 - 2023 please contact me here. 

If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my online store here.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher