Tuesday, April 26, 2011

{Somewhere Over the Rainbow}



Hello and welcome to my blog! I hope you are having a good day! Today I am posting a card that I was inspired and challenged to create in this weeks challenge at  Moxie Fab World "Tissue Paper Magic".  After sitting at my craft table with a few sheets of tissue paper in front of me it came to me...how about a rainbow! When I started out I had no idea if this would even work, but as you can see from my card it did, and the results are ah-mazing! To create my tissue paper rainbow I cut several strips of white packing tissue about 1 inch wide. Next I chose 6 colors from my new A Muse Studio pigment ink: papaya, grass, orange, sky, and blackberry. I applied the ink to my strips of tissue paper using make-up wedges. I get them at the Dollar Store and cut them in half so I'm ok with throwing them away after using them.  I let the rainbow strips dry for a bit and then I began twisting them into shape. I used sticky tape to apply one color band at a time and using a twisting motion I created the color band.  The sentiment is from A Muse Studio as well as the pretty swallow die cuts that I added to my card. I cut them out in 2 colors to add a bit of depth. Those pretty dies come in two sizes and at only 5.95 for the set ya can't beat the price! I added glimmery brads to the corners and finished off the cards with lots of buttons to form the billowy clouds at the end of the rainbow. I had so much fun making this card and will be using tissue paper in my cards in the future. Thank you Moxie Fab World for the awesome challenge! Today I am playing along with a few other challenges as well:





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11 comments:

~ Kendra ~ said...

Beautiful card! Love how you made the rainbow out of tissue paper!! Neat idea! A perfect "rainbow" inspired card! Thanks for joining us at Creative Inspirations Paint!

Kendra

Vicky said...

Wow Veronica I love it hun! Great use of the paper, love the wee buttons and sweet birdie's too..

hugs Vicky xx

Sarah said...

Hi Veronica, love your card, so creative! And I love the birds. Thanks so much for playing with us at CI Paints. Hope you will join us again. Hugs, Sarah

Regina Ellison said...

This is awesome! I love your use of the tissue paper. Definitely Moxie worthy!

Dan said...

Great card, and I love your use of buttons as clouds! The Design Team are really pleased that you joined us for the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge this week - Thank you!

Ann said...

Very pretty card. I love the colors!
Thanks for joining us at Frosted Designs!

Teresa Zuehls said...

Such a sweet card! How clever of you to ink white tissue paper. I love the buttons at the end of the rainbow and the sweet birds.

BugBites said...

What a wonderful card. love the little TFS with us at Frosted Designs

Terry said...

Hiya Thank you for joining the DT from Simon Says Stamp and Show with your wonderfull card, I love the simplicity and your card is very classy. Hugs Terry xxxx

Kianel said...

what a gorgeous rainbow!!!
beautiful card!
thanks for playing with us at Creative inspirations paints!
love from France, Kianel.

Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Editor said...

Hey Veronica! Thanks for entering the Tissue Paper Magic Challenge in the Moxie Fab World! I'm so glad you joined in on all the fun! :)