Sending Rainbows - Assembly Line Production

I hope that you are staying well through what seems to be the new normal. Here spring has been a bit of a roller coaster so far, but it seems like we have finally turned a corner and the temperatures are on the rise and for the first time there isn't any snow in the forecast! The squirrels, chipmunks, robins and other birds are busy busy in the yard. We have a mama and baby deer who have been visiting us daily at dusk to munch on the abundance of acorns on the property right outside the kitchen window, that has been such a treat. Today the little one showed up for breakfast too!

Today a have a set of rainbow cards that I have made to stock up my happy mail supply and I am continuing to make cards to send to friends and family that I wish I could just go and give a hug to. There are a lot of steps with this card so I used the assembly line to easily put the cards together.

I used the My Favourite Things Magical Rainbow dienamics die and cut six rainbows, one from each colour of cardstock I was going to use. In my sample I used--pink, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. That gave me enough bands to make six unique rainbows. The die comes with a solid base and I cut six of those and assembled my rainbows.

I cut a panel of cardstock 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" in three of the six colours and then adhered them to front of six A2 sized white card bases. I used green, blue and purple. I cut six more white panels sized 5 3/8" x 3 7/8" and then stamped the large Smile sentiment from the My Favorite Things All Smiles stamp set on all six panels. This set is now retired but you can use any sentiments you have to create whatever message you would like to send.

TIP: I have had this set a long time and it was the first time using the large Smile. It had a little bubble in the 'm' that left a white hole when stamped. So I just dotted a black Copic marker over the hole and you can't even tell.

Next I masked over the white inside panel with four strips of 1" Post-it tape. Right at the top and two sides and them the bottom strip just above the 'S' of smile I used the My Favorite Things Cloud stencil to ink blend clouds in the opening with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink using blending brushes.

I white embossed the second line of the sentiment also from the All Smiles stamp set on the same colour of each background paper I used. I ended up with 2 sentiments of each background colour.

I cut 18 white clouds from white cardstock--3 for each card. I used an older Papertrey Ink die, I think it may have been from one of my first purchases from them.

Now that I had all my pieces prepared I adhered everything together. All pieces were glued flat except I put a bit of foam tape behind the rainbows.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, stay well!