Rainbow distress resist

The cards I will share today and tomorrow I made because I was inspired by these cards that Amy R made using an interesting way of getting the rainbow effect. I didn’t however choose to go floral as I had been maybe overdoing it with flower cards recently and so went stash shopping in my older stash and found a Paperartsy stamp I thought would work well for giving it a go!

I heat embossed the tiled image using white embossing onto mixed media cardstock. I did it twice because why not!

Then I ink blended using Fossilised amber, picked raspberry, mermaid lagoon and then used a water brush and the inks smooshed on the glass mat to colour them in. The technique of blending first makes the blending more organic and less structured to create the rainbow colours … although on one of my panels I did blend in stripes rather than patches just to make them different.

Once embossed and coloured I then trimmed them down and edged them with the Hickory smoke to create a subtle border.

Then I had to decide what to do with them.

Amy had gone for a grey stencilled background for her flowers so I decided to go grey for the first one but used a stencil to create the squares. I then stamped some of the other stamps in the same set to create a grungy background. I added some splattered Hickory Smoke and Black Soot too… and then grabbed some sparkly black paint and splattered that too! After all it isn’t an Amy card without some splatter!

I decided to add a birthday sentiment on this and stamped and die cut the Waffleflower one from my newer stash and added a scrap of black ribbon behind it to add a bit of texture.

I then hunted through the gems to find three different coloured ones (my gem stash is rather depleted and needs replenishing soon so had little choice) and added those!

That was card 1.

Will share how I finished card 2 tomorrow for you.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

PS thank you Amy for the inspiration!