DT: Kingston Crafts – rainbow kit

This is another ‘as seen on tv’ project from back in March when Martin was on Hobbymaker with Kingston Crafts – although it was only on screen briefly! I realised I hadn’t yet got around to blogging it so here we go!

I went for something a little different with this card and did some paper piecing for this birthday card.

I knew that the Gorjuss girl would look lovely in a rainbow outfit and so stamped her on the white card blank, some diagonal stripes, some wider stripes and the plain pink. I then used my promarkers to colour her face, neck, arms and then some striped tights. I then fussy cut the hair, the dress and the boots and glued them in place on the card.

I also stamped the image onto a post it note to mask off the image and added some subtle blue ink blending behind the image just to ground her a little.

I then chose to take a section off the front of the card blank so that the inside of the card was peeping out the side and added some of the patterned paper to that.

I also added the strip of the horizontal stripe to the left hand side.

I then went through the extra bits in the kit and I love the Happy Birthday sticker banner. I decided to add it to a piece of the blue card and cut it out so I could raise it up above the girl.

It is quite a simple looking card but those paper pieces for the image of the girl are so cute!

I did then end up doing a simple little extra edit after this … with some little doodles … to be fair it was because I noticed a little smudge and needed to disguise it!