3 Summer Rainbow Cards

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have three rainbow cards to share with you all. I’ll be using a range of products from last year’s summer release and then a few sentiments sets as well.

Card #1 – Tropical Birds + Dies / Summer Surfboards Dies

Card #2 – Summer Surfboards + Dies / Tropical BG Stencil / Halloween Pals

Card #3 – Tropical Frame Dies / Everyday Greetings / Fall Scene

For my first card I’m creating a silhouette style card. I started off by used a range of Distress Oxide Inks and ink blended onto a piece of watercolour cardstock. I went in rainbow order diagonally across the card. Once I finished ink blending, I flicked on some water, picked it up with a paper towel and dried my piece with a heat tool. I then used the Tropical Birds and Summer Surfboards dies and partially die cut them from a black piece of cardstock. I didn’t put the plate over the bottom half of the dies so they wouldn’t cut through. I then took a knife and cut between all the pieces to create a sand bank. I added foam tape onto the back and adhered it at the bottom of my ink blended panel.

Distress Oxide Inks Used: Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, Wilted Violet

For the sentiment, I used the ‘Aloha’ word from Tropical Birds, curved it on my acrylic block and white heat embossed it directly onto the background. Lastly, I scattered six colours of sequins onto the background over their respective colours and that finished up the first card.

For my second card, I created a CAS card using rainbow surfboards. I started off with stamping out six surfboards onto some white cardstock and colouring them in with Copic Markers. I then cut them out. For my background, I used the Tropical BG Stencil and used it for dry embossing. I did this by using it the same way I would with an embossing folder; but using rubber mats instead of the actual folder. Once that was all run through, I adhered my surfboards into place.

Copic Markers Used: R14, R24, R27, R46 / R30, R32, R43, R35 / YR00, YR02, YR12, YR18 / YR20, YR21, YR23, YR24 / YR30, Y32, Y35, Y38 / Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17 / YG00, YG01, YG23, YG17 / YG61, G43, YG63, YG67 / BG10, BG11, BG32, BG13 / B91, B93, B95, B97 / V20, V22, V25, V28 / BV01, BV02, BV04, BV08

For my sentiment, I paired both Summer Surfboards and Halloween Pals to make ‘Happy Summer’. I like mixing fonts for sentiments. I white heat embossed that onto a think black strip and adhered it over the surfboards. I cut off the excess and that finished up my second card.

For my final card, I used the Tropical Frame Die to create a colour blocked frame. I started off with eight colours of cardstock and cut ¾” strips from each of them. I laid them down into rainbow order and adhered them together using washi tape. I took the Tropical Frame Die and cut it from the coloured cardstock. I removed all the inside pieces, added foam tape onto the back and adhered it onto a white card base.

For my sentiment, I stamped the large ‘Thank You’ from Everyday Greetings into the centre using a stamping tool. I then used Fall Scene and white heat embossed the ‘For All You Do’ sentiment onto a thin black strip of cardstock. I popped it up on foam tape and adhered it into place. I then used the same colours of sequins and scattered them around the card as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed all the rainbow inspiration.

Eloise