I am so excited to let my readers know, I am the Guest Designer on The Paper Girls Challenge Blog featuring a Rainbow Theme designed card. The challenge begins the week of April 15th.

Before I created the card I submitted as a guest designer, I had fun creating a rainbow cake happy birthday card, which is featured below:

I really love this card, but I wasn’t satisfied with the results. So, I moved on to another idea. I went to my collection of stamps and chose the “A Better Place” stamp set (this was featured in a previous post, Black and White – A Better Place). It is our new host exclusive stamp set for parties that reach $600 or more dollars in orders. I sat and looked at all the stamps in this two set collection, I browsed many card collections on Pinterest and finally decided to create a floral card awash with the colors of the rainbow.

As many of you know, this month’s product promotion feature our silks and splashes. Since they are 20% off, I wanted to showcase what could be down with them. I went with the splashes since I had all the colors to create a rainbow on hand. I began with a large, clear block (think background sized) and drizzled a good amount of water from my media blender brush onto the block prior to adding the splash colors. Normally, you spritzed color with the splashes, but I unscrewed the cap and using the pipe that pulls the color through to the nozzle, placed each color in a vertical row making sure to keep each color separate from the next. I, also, screwed the cap back onto each bottle as I used it (trust me, you want to do this or you could have a “real” mess on your hands). After all the colors were on the block, I gently pulled the colors into the one beside it, keeping white space to a minimum. Next, I placed a piece of 5 1/4″ x 4″ Whip Cream card stock onto the rainbow of colors. I pulled the paper off and repeated the entire process with a second sheet. I let my paper air dry, or a heat tool can speed up the process.  I took two of the floral stamps from the set and stamped them several times onto one of the colored pieces of paper. I used  the Journey Rectangles Die and cut a frame and stamped the sentiment on the leftover piece. I used the Mystic Fern die to cut leaves out of several pieces of card stock. To create a more dimensional look, I fussy cut inner petal pieces and manipulated all the petals with an embossing tool (thing Heartfelt Creation flowers). I added foam squares to everything, popping them up off the card to create dimension. The color filled mat was adhered to a base of Pretty Amethyst card stock. The final touches included Rainbow Drops to the center of the flowers and Journey Glaze.

Thank you Paper Girls Challenge Blog for asking me to be your guest designer.

If you would like to order any of the supplies to create this card, please click here, or contact me through my Fun Stampers Journey website to host a party (www.funstampersjourney.com/martymcgee).