How can that be when it's so sunny outside today?
Well, let me tell you...yesterday some rain drops came into my life and I'm happy to say they are here to stay. Hanna Stamps has a new release coming out on Friday and Kristi brought my set over yesterday so I could play! I was going to do a kind of teaser today, but looking at the other designers' blogs, looks like they have gone more for full frontal disclosure so I will do the same:
Ingredients: Stamps - Hanna Stamps Rain, Rain; Paper - Autumn Leaves Adhesive Mat Stack, SU! Bashful Blue, Real Red, Garden Green, Summer Sun, Whisper White; Ink - Palette Noir, SU! Bashful Blue. More Mustard; Other ; Tria Markers with Prismacolor Blender Pen, Prismacolor Pencils, 5/8" circle punch (EK Success), Red & Black ginham ribbon (SU!), colored brads (Making Memories), Mega Scalloped Circle Punch (Marvy), dimensionals, Prima flowers.
Isn't it STINKIN' CUTE?!?! (YILM!)
This set really reminds me of Mary Tyler Moore...that kind of cheerfulness in the face of the dreary and humdrum, the ability to enjoy even RAIN, for Pete's sake!
"Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?...."
La la la...ahem...never mind!
While I'm an optimist, my optimism is cast into the shade by the glaring optimism issuing from the face of Hanna in this set, which leaves one with the question, "Can anybody really be THIS cheerful?!?!" However, on a grey November day, this card is a welcome addition, a kind of Lil' Orphan Annie "The Sun'll Come Up Tomorrow" view of the world that is necessary. Get this set and make a cheerful card for that Eeyore friend of yours, put a little more sunshine in the world!
Because I kind of felt as if heavenly rays were shining out of the rain clouds, illuminating Hanna's face as she gazed up into the sky (if it were me, I'd just get a face full of rain, but the Hannas of this world seem to have more luck!), I used a technique recently featured on SCS by Beate, Spotlighting. I stamped Hanna's image twice, colored in one of the images, then punched out a circle using my Marvy Mega scalloped circle punch, then adhered it over the uncolored image.
Originally, I tried using my Tria markers to color in the whole image, but my brilliant mixing of two colors that worked wonderfully on the Santa's face on that card I made with the Eat Cake Graphics stamps, was a dismal failure. Hanna looked like she had some sort of dreadful jaundice complicated by bleeding beneath the skin and a case of measles besides...so I tried coloring over the top of that with a white Prismacolor pencil and then Hanna looked like she had died and the undertaker had tried to give her a natural look, but failed dismally.
So I did my usual "what nobody sees, nobody knows" fix and colored yet another copy of just Hanna's hands and face with Prismacolor pencils, cut it out and carefully adhered it over the top of the corpse-colored Hanna face. I paper-pieced Hanna's raincoat using more of the self-adhesive mat paper. The sky on the spotlight piece was a little too dark, so going over it with a white Prismacolor pencil lightened it up and evened it out amazingly...markers and colored pencils can be really brilliant together!
Now, if that isn't enough to make you want this set, heheheh (she laughs evilly) this will. This set also comes with a number of accessories for Hanna, including a cute little umbrella. So since I looked at Beate's other new tutorial on SCS for the Holiday Blitz she's doing (what a wonder that woman is! Give her a cape and some tights!) for a treat box, I decided to make something a little different using my umbrella:
Ingredients: Stamps - Hanna Stamps Rain, Rain, SU! Short & Sweet; Paper - Bazill cardstock, Chatterbox, SU! Whisper White, SU! Vellum Cardstock; Ink - SU! Pumpkin Pie, Versamark; Other - Flowered green organdy (Michael's), pink gingham (SU!), Prima flower, SU! Pretties kit, small Pretty in Pink button (SU!), Martha Stewart scalloped border punch, Pretty in Pink brad (SU!), Winter White EP (SU!), small oval punch (SU!), tag corner punch (SU!), flower eyelets (SU! retired), white gel pen, Pumpkin Pie marker.
Isn't it GOJUS!?!? (YILM!) Here's some other pictures:
I love making tags and this one turned out DARLINGA! (YILM!) I embossed the umbrella on white vellum cardstock, then cut it out...it's actually tied to the tag with the ribbon to attach it, so as to avoid the problem of adhesive behind the vellum showing through.
I would fill this with small bottles of baby lotion, packets of diaper wipes, little t-shirts and any other little necessities. The cool thing is that you can make these boxes in smaller sizes...you could make them small enough to be favors for a wedding or baby shower and then your little umbrella from this Hanna set comes in awfully handy!
Yes, I know, I'm an evil enabler...but you love me anyway, don't you?
