Belated OCC Day Five Rainbow Maker

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Day five at the Rainbow Maker class featured adding texture over a rainbow background using stencils. In my last post I used a texture paste. This time I thought I would use Deco Transfer gel for Foil. I used Salty Ocean, Fossilized Amber, and Candied Apple Distress Inks. To get the I created the secondary colours of the rainbow, by overlapping the primary colours. Next I used a Neat and Tangled basket weave stencil and added the Deco Transfer Gel. This is awesome stuff, but you have to make sure that it is completely dry before you try foiling over it. I let mine dry overnight. If you don't, you will end up with a melted blobby mess - ask me how I know!:) I use my Minc mini to apply a beautiful Gina K mango foil. It is very hard to capture in the photo, but it is just gorgeous. I finished it off with an SSS sentiment die and vellum circle. 

Here you can see the foil goodness a little better. Thanks for stopping by. Please feel free to leave a comment as I love to read the feedback!

Happy Stamping,

Meg

OCC Rainbow Maker Day Five

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For Day Five of OCC Rainbow Maker we are focusing on stenciling over rainbow blended backgrounds. So, for this card I created my ink-blended background with Candied Apple, Squeezed Lemonade, and Salty Ocean distress inks. By overlapping the primary colours, I created the secondary orange and green, without having to add an orange or a green ink. Then I used some Heidi Swapp metallic white texture paste using my MFT Brick Stencil. The neat thing about this texture paste is that it is slightly translucent and iridescent, so it picks up the background colour. To finish it off, I die cut a Lawn Fawn sentiment from home-made toner paper and foiled it with Gina K mango foil. Here is a better picture which shows off the foil and the paste more.

The colour of the foil really picks up on the yellow-orange in back ground. I popped the sentiment onto a Paper Smooches vellum die cut. I love the way this card turned out. Here is another close-up of the quality of the foil and texture paste.

Thanks for stopping by. Please feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Happy Stamping,

Meg

Online Card Classes Rainbow Maker Day 4

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Today over at Online Card Classes Rainbow Maker, the focus is on watercoloured backgrounds. I chose to do the traditional "smooshing" technique. I used Candied Apple, Crushed Pumpkin, Squeezed Lemonade, Cracked Pistachio, Mermaid Lagoon, and Wilted Violet Distress Inks. I smooshed each ink pad onto my craft sheet and spritzed it liberally with water. Then I smooshed my Tim Holtz Watercolour paper into it. I love the way it turned out. After heat setting, I followed Laura Bassen's lead and topped it all off with a simple white die cut from Concord and 9th. I didn't even feel the need to add a sentiment.

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Happy Stamping,

Meg

Muse 228 and Online Card Classes: Rainbow Maker Day 3

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This is the inspiration card for this week's Muse Challenge - it pairs perfectly with the Online Card Class Rainbow Maker. The rainbow focal image in the Muse card is the perfect inspiration for my rainbow "hugs". The white sentiment embossed on a black background was inspired by the black background in the card. I felt it needed a little something more, so I embossed the card panel with my hearts Next Level EF. I also couldn't resist adding Wink of Stella to the rainbow die cut. The sentiment and the die are both from Concord and 9th!

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Happy Stamping,

Meg

Online Card Classes: Rainbow Maker Day Two Part Two

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Here is my second card for today's online card class Rainbow maker. The focus today is to stamp using rainbow colours and who better than Laura Bassen to demo that. She demo'd a plaid background using rainbow colours. LOVE it! I pulled out my old PTI set "Faux Ribbon" and went to town. Again I used my new Altenew inks - they are so beautiful to work with. When I finished the background, I added to Concord and 9th Hello die. I felt the card base needed some texture against the busy plaid, so I used one of my Next Level Embossing folders, from the geometric set.

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Happy Stamping,

Meg

Online Card Classes: Rainbow Maker Day Two Part One

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Today in the Online Card Class Rainbow Maker, Jennifer McGuire showed a second generation stamping technique to create a background. She used hearts and a rainbow colour scheme. I decided to use a circle stamp (actually the backside of Neat and Tangled's Everyday Circles) and ombre rainbow colour scheme. I got out my new Altenew inks in red, orange, green, blue, and purple and created the repeated pattern. I used another Neat and Tangled set, "Out of the Box", for the sentiment. Since the background is quite vibrant, I kept the sentiment simple. I also couldn't resist adding some Wink of Stella to the circles - it is hard to capture in the picture, but it is very sparkly in real life!

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Happy Stamping,

Meg

Online Card Class Day One: Rainbow Maker

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This week I am participating in Online Card Classes new class called: Rainbow Maker. One of the card's presented today used a double stencil technique. I created a heart stencil with my MFT nested hearts. Then I inked blended first with just the heart stencil. After, I overlaid the MFT Brick stencil and ink blended again - either with the same colour or a slightly darker version of the colour. So, for example, on the yellow heart, I used Squeezed Lemonade and then Fossilized Amber on top. For the purple I just used Wilted Violet. The sentiment is the Neat and Tangled Awesome die.

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Happy Stamping,

Meg

Muse 228 and Online Card Classes: Rainbow Maker Day One

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Here is the inspiration card for this week's Muse Challenge.I was thrilled to see the use of rainbow motif, since this week I am participating in the latest Online Card Class called Rainbow Maker. I decided for my Muse card I decided to flip the colour scheme and do black die cut on a rainbow background. I used an inked edge technique with rainbow colours for my background and then glued my black die cut on top. The colours are Distress Inks: Candied Apple, Crushed Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio, Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet. The die is an SSS Daisy die. The sentiment is from Altenew's Label Love set. Here is my card:

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Happy Stamping,

Meg