The Paper Players have a Colors of the Rainbow Challenge this week. Just think of the possibilities.
I'm filling in some at where I used to work since one of the nurses has been out ill. That has cut into my stamping time a little so I've been looking for a few shortcuts. I had a background that I had started for another challenge that looked like a rainbow plus a few gold embossed butterflies so that is what I started with. The round window sketch is similar to one that I saw Mindy Eggen share on Instagram back in February. I've been wanting to try it with one of my blended backgrounds which I talked about more on last Saturday's post.
A few hints before I go put my nurse's hat back on:
- The colors come from yesterday's color challenge: Night of Navy, Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry and Poppy Parade. Whisper White craft ink lightens and helps to blend them on the Whisper White cardstock. I shared this technique on a Facebook Live a few weeks ago.
- I cut out a 1/2" "frame" of the gold foil to conserve the foil and then decided to use the leftover piece to make a smaller circle to line my white "window".
- I used a die to cut the circle out of the white cardstock and the 2" punch to cut the circle out of the gold foil. This was still going to leave a larger gold circle than I had in mind so I attached it in an offset manner so that more gold shows in the lower left where is partially covered by the large butterfly. Less of the gold circle shows in the upper right.
- I used markers to color my gold embossed Butterfly Gala butterflies. Flirty Flamingo and Mango Melody were cheerful colors I pulled from the blended background.
- The greeting is from the Well Words Bundle with the "Hooray" cut from gold foil and the "for you" stamped in Coastal Cabana ink.
- Metallic Pearls bring in one more element of gold.
The Butterfly Duet Punch and Butterfly Gala Bundle are currently unavailable to order but are expected to become available again. Stampin' Up has announced that the punch will carryover into next year's catalog.
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