A Trio of Rainbow Cards

Kristina Werner produced the first video for the Online Card Class: Stretch Your Stamps 2 , and demonstrated how to create a watercolored background using the Hero Arts Highline Ironwork stamp.

I photographed my piece when I was done, but didn’t check the photo carefully, and it was too out of focus to share. Unusual, but it happens when you’re in a hurry. You may be able to get the idea from the cards that follow. After watercoloring the piece, I cut it apart in strips and with several die cuts, and managed to create three cards. I still have a couple of hearts left over.

I used the Wonderful Words: Birthday stamp and die from Papertrey Ink for this as well as a four hearts die from Simon Says.

This one uses a couple of the strips I cut, and Wonderful Words: Thank You from Papertrey.

I love the bright rainbow colors against both black and white, but they work with bright cardstock as well. Here’s the last card with Sunshine cardstock from Simon Says.

It’s another Wonderful Words stamp and die (“Hello”), along with a few wood veneer hearts from Studio Calico that I colored with a Copic marker and highlighted with a bit of Wink of Stella glitter. I stacked the die cut again with several words cut from the Sunshine cardstock.

Watercoloring the white embossed piece took a bit of time and patience, but it was well worth the effort to get three cards into the file!

I’ll be linking these up to the Simon Says Monday Challenge which is “Anything Goes.”