Spring slimline rainbow bonanza

This month will likely be about finishing off half finished projects, using up pouches of stash and trying to tidy things up for the forthcoming new year … today’s post is very much one of those!

I pulled out what was left over from the spring slimline cardstock I got a sample of for making my design team cards and enjoyed making these five cards using the fab Concord & 9th dies.

Let’s start with the DL shaped card …

This one I used three stripes of the paper to do the background to the die cuts. I then chose a rainbow I had made using the yellow, green, blue and lilac cardstock.

I cut a cloud shape and then also one of the suns from the set too.

Then I die cut the sentiment from the yellow with a white background die cut – I love a layered sentiment die!

I adhered it all together and then added glitter glue round the centre of the sun and the edge of the cloud.

Next up I carried on with the striped panel theme but this time just a small panel as a topper on a different background.

This time I chose the sentiment to be more of a focal point with white words and the peachy orange background.

I added the smaller sun as the die cut element and added glitter glue to the central part so it is super sparkly!

Next I used the strips of the cardstock to create a fun angled background panel.

This, along with the panels of the pastel cardstock from Kingston Crafts created a lovely base for the sun die cut.

I added glitter glue around the outside of the circle part of the sun and then grabbed the glimmer foiled sentiment. I also added the cute card candi to finish off!

Ok next up the square you made my day card…

This time lots of leftovers of the paper glued onto a square panel and then I created the square in the middle and added the gorgeous rainbow.

I added the die cut words which are from the same set using the negative die cut to position them.

I then added the funky pink and lilac sun to go with the colours on the card and stamped the little sentiment from another Concord & 9th set.

Lastly the left over strips from the kit – my usual technique of just creating stripes across a panel – this time adding in the blue and yellow stripes too – then added the fun die cut sun and the Altenew stamped and die cut sentiment with the card candi to finish off!

It was also fun to do this onto the blue card base too not a white one – inside I added a white panel for writing on along with another leftover strip of the patterned paper.

It was fun to do these rainbows in pastel colours rather than brights – and very cute to team with the spring slimline papers too I think! I still have a few ready made up rainbows too so they are left in the pouch ready for next time I fancy going rainbow! 🌈

I have only got a bit of the slimline papers left now which makes me a little sad – but know there are similar colours in the Hello Life EDS set so may have to pull them out to play with soon 😀 – but also happy as one of the main aims of this batch of cards was to get stash used up and this is one pouch of supplies that is almost finished – and that makes me feel good!

Happy crafting!

Catherine