The new challenge here at Cardz4galz, has been chosen by Pamela and she uses word inspiration RAINBOW as her theme. She will also choose the winners.

I had been playing with a scrap piece of water colour card stock and inked it with most of the colours from the rainbow. It was set aside for several days before I decided how I wanted to use it. My initial thoughts were to make an actual rainbow from it, but I wanted something slightly different and this is what I came up with. I used a border curved die from Spellbinders and cut the piece up. Then I put it back together by gluing it onto the white layer but dropping down as a portrait style. My edges were a bit challenging to match perfectly so I used a gold pen to cover up any tiny gaps.

I’ve had a new Lavinia stamp sitting in a box of new, but as yet unused items and decided that it would be good to have at the bottom. I stamped it several times to get good coverage particularly in the gap created by the rainbow layer and then heat set it black. The gap was bothering me a bit so I added a little extra ink with a brush and heat set a second time which worked well. Then I took the Lavinia rabbit stamp, added it to a scrap piece, heat embossed him a few times and fussy cut. Before adding the fussy cut layer I also stamped him onto the rainbow layer, which meant I could keep the wispy hair along his shape. They would have been impossible to fussy cut. The sentiment is from a CYNS stamp and die set I’ve had for a while.

In the end, I am happy with how this turned out and I am looking forward to seeing your creations in our gallery. Have fun with your designs. Thanks for stopping by, your time is appreciated as are any comments you may leave.