Uplifting Umbrella

It was a grey & gloomy day in Auckland yesterday and I had sometime to do a bit of blog hopping & saw a few simple challenges at AAA Cards (Clean and Simple Challenges) and The Paper Players which seemed a nice way to spend the afternoon. I was thinking I may need an umbrella real soon when I decided to make this card.

• I've black embossed the umbrella on the reverse of a paper from the Birthday Bonanza DSP pack (the other side has lions on it) as I loved the Terracotta Tile/Grapefruit Grove colours which seemed so cheery. 
• The gumboots I just black embossed them on thick Whisper White cardstock & then stamped one of the sweet wee flowers all over it with Gray Granite Ink. 
• I've then fussy cut out the gumboots and then coloured it in with alcohol markers & the cheery centre is a Melon Mambo Stampin' Write marker. 
• I punched out the umbrella using the punch and the handle I just punched out of black card stock. 

So a really quick & easy but hopeful it adds a "bit of sunshine" to the recipient it sure did to my day.

Supply List (all products Stampin' Up! apart from the Copic Markers):
Stamps: Under My Umbrella (Photopolymer)
Ink: Versamark, Gray Granite, Melon Mambo marker, various Copic markers
Paper: Thick Whisper White, Basic Black, Birthday Bonanza DSP
Punches: Umbrella Builder
Other: Black EP, Dimensionals (mini & normal), EMBOSSING BUDDY (very important as black embossing on white cardstock)

 If you buy the stamp set & punch as a bundle you save 10% - Under My Umbrella Bundle (153786) $64.75

I found a really cool site that matches the Copic Markers to Stampin' Up! Blends as for those of you that have been following me for awhile know I discovered colouring & Copic markers whilst I was no longer a demo in the middle of 2016. For complicated colouring I'd have to say Copics are amazing but for simple colouring of small images for cards I wish SU! had their blends available years ago I would have saved a whole lot of money! As I have invested in 2/3 of the Copic range there is no turning back for me & I am very grateful Kim from Joyful Creations from Kim has all the matches on her site. For those of you starting on the colouring journey SU! offers blending markers in a much smaller range which offers the ease & versatility of blending with alcohol and the marker colour will also match the card stock, ribbon, DSP etc (all the things we/I love about SU!) and I'm happy to say thick whisper white card stock is possible to blend on, I wouldn't personally recommend it on regular whisper white.

Anyhow onto the Challenges; maximum white space and heat embossing - 2 of my favourite things to do on a card.

✿ Karen ✿