Rain or Shine card by Jennifer Jackson

Just another Rainy Day...

I'm so ready for summer but the past few weeks here at NND headquarters in Wisconsin have been chilly and rainy! Hopefully with June just around the corner the warmer weather will come! 

Until then, I'm sharing this fun card I created with our Newton's Rainy Day stamp set! I usually watercolor or use copic markers but I thought it would be fun to try some colored pencils on this image! I used Faber Castell Polychromos to color the image. It was a lot of fun to play with the pencils and layering of colors.  If you are new to pencils you should know that you can also achieve dark and lighter areas just by how much pressure you apply when coloring! Heavier pressure adds more pigment to the paper and lighter pressure gives a softer look. So you don't need TON of pencil colors to get some nice shading. Great if you are on a budget!

After I colored the image, I trimmed it out using the coordinating Newton's Rainy Day Die Set and then decided to make a scene for the image. I started with a kraft cardstock base and then layered a piece of bright blue cardstock over it to make the sky background. I stamped a bunch of little raindrops in the sky using the little raindrop image from the Newton's Rainy Day stamp set with blue ink. Then I trimmed out a piece of grass border for the bottom of the card using the Land Borders Die Set with green cardstock and some clouds using the Sky Borders die set using white. The cloud seemed like the perfect place to add the "I'm here for you rain or shine" sentiment from the Newton's Rainy Day stamp set!  Then I added on the image I had colored with some foam adhesive to pop it off the card!

This card was so simple to make. I love how easy you can create scenes with our border dies! 

Hope you enjoyed this project today!