Rainbow

Rainbow

Hi there!

A new week and a new theme

How exciting is that?  Anything

to take our minds off the wind

and the rain

So to start the Rainbow off

here's Jane Castle with a beautiful 

flower heart

"Today I'd like to share with you a Mother's Day 

card that I made using a Kaleidacolor rainbow ink pad 

to colour all my flowers, leaves and die cuts.

Using my Caribbean Sea ink pad I began to

colour various different types of paper and card

This was done by swiping the ink pad across

each piece but always going in the same direction.

For this I used old dictionary pages, watercolour paper, 

300gsm white card, Grunge paper and 

T.H. Ideaology Kraft Resist. 

For some I had the raised pads separate and 

for others I slid the pads together

Next I selected various flower stamps I thought I might like to use, 

a list will be added at the bottom of the page.

The flowers were either stamped in black ink and then 

heat embossed with clear powder 

or stamped in VersaMark and heat embossed 

with white powder. 

These were cut out by hand and a few were then passed 

through an embossing folder and the detail hi-lighted 

using some Treasure Gold Wax.

Next I made a paper stencil of the heart shape 

I wanted to form on my card with my flowers 

and using this lightly inked through to 

give an outline to follow. 

The leaves were then stamped using the 

Caribbean Sea ink pad and a trailing leaf stamp from PaperArtsy.

The cut out leaves were shaped over a pokey tool 

and stuck onto the card with Pinflair glue

Then it was a case of layering the flowers and 

trying out the design before attaching anything permently. 

For the centres I used a mix of brads, buttons 

and pearl beads. 

A few loops of matching ribbon were also added

The word wonderful was stamped in black onto an off-cut 

and then mounted onto a darker coloured scrap. 

The letters MUM were cut using Memory Box 

Parker Upper case die and more of the off-cuts. 

The final touch was a small heart shaped button 

in the bottom righthand corner.

I love the richness of the colour palette from 

this ink pad and the coverage is very good 

on even the most absorbant of surfaces. 

The added bonus of being able to separate the 

different colours means not only can you use 

one colour for stamping a small image or sentiment

 but also they don't bleed into each other."

Items Used

Kaleidacolor Caribbean Sea Ink Pad

PaperArtsy Flora and Fauna 6

Lavinia Zen Flower 2

Jofy 12

Studio 490 - Live and Make Art

Kaisercraft CS912 Flowers

Heartfelt Creations 3533

Treasure Gold Wax in Olive Bronze

White and Clear Embossing Powder

Memory Box Parker Upper Case Die

Buttons and Brads

Craft Concepts Budding Vine Embossing Folder

Thank you Jane.  A lovely card for someone you love

and with Mother's Day coming up (in the UK) really

special indeed.

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx