Priscilla's Papercrafts: Rainbows of Happiness

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Happy Birthday to my sister, Holly.

Our mom loved rainbows. For my birthday this year, Holly sent me a beautiful glass rainbow in memory of our mom.

So for her birthday, I pulled out my Rainbow of Happiness stamps and the Brilliant Rainbow dies.

I actually had a number of white rainbow arcs left from a class I recently had. I've colored these before, and love the look, so I pulled out a few and used my Stampin' Blends to color them.

Once done, I used Mini Stampin' Dimensionals to mount the rainbow to some Basic White cardstock embossed with one of the Check & Dots embossing folders.

A white Stitched Rectangle frame sets it all off, and I finished with the Holiday Rhinestone jewels. Then the inside:

Do you know that you can color your stamps with the Stampin' Write markers? I used a rainbow of colors to create this greeting.

But I had a gift for her, and needed a tag:

One of the dies in the set is this little tag, complete with tiny rainbow. LOVE! I colored each arc with a Blend, and added a cloud from the die set.

Happy Birthday, Holly!

Product List

Rainbow Of Happiness Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[157721]

$18.00

Rainbow Of Happiness Bundle (English)

[157727]

$44.00

Paradise Palms Cling Stamp Set (English)

[157716]

$23.00

All Squared Away Cling Stamp Set

[155087]

$23.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$6.00

Real Red Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154899]

$9.00

Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154897]

$9.00

Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154883]

$9.00

Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154885]

$9.00

Night Of Navy Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154891]

$9.00

Rich Razzleberry Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154898]

$9.00

Many Marvelous Markers

[147154]

$123.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[159276]

$9.75

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

[159229]

$8.25

Checks & Dots Embossing Folders

[155432]

$8.00

Brilliant Rainbow Dies

[157726]

$31.00

Stitched Rectangles Dies

[151820]

$35.00

Stitched With Whimsy Dies

[155314]

$29.00

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$120.00

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$4.00

Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[150457]

$6.00

Monday, March 7, 2022

A Rainbow in Green

This post could come under the heading of "What's on the Desk", as it started with some leftover pieces that were sitting on my desk. I had been making a rainbow card for my sister's birthday, and stamped four different rainbows. So after completing her card, (I'll post it later this week), I still had some orphaned rainbows. And I couldn't let them go to waste!

One of them was done in greens, and with the upcoming St. Patrick's Day holiday looming, I went with it:

The rainbow and the clouds were leftovers, so I had to decide what to do with them. And then the "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" came to mind. So...

Cute? Yes! I used some retired Black Foil with the Seasonal Labels dies, but I had to cut it twice, moving the die to the left and lining it back up with the die-cut image in order to shorten it a bit. And then I needed some gold -- Gold Foil with a 1/2" punch did the trick!

But what to do with the rainbow? I needed some kind of background.

Blending Brushes to the rescue!

I cut a piece of Basic White cardstock to 5-1/4" x 4", and used one of the Basic Borders dies to create the "top" of the sky - doesn't it look like fluffy clouds? Then, with a punched cloud stencil (Cloud Punch) I used a Blending Brush with Balmy Blue to make clouds, moving the stencil around until I got the desired effect. Some Just Jade ink and my Blending Brush added color to the bottom half of the page, making it look like a hillside.