Valentine's Day + Rainbows

Ever since I learned ROYGBIV way back in elementary school as a way to remember the colors of the rainbow in order, I've loved rainbows!  I often like to use rainbow colors in my card making.  Being that it's close to Valentine's Day, I thought I'd come up with a card to incorporate the two ideas.  I chose 6 colors of Catherine Pooler inks to stamp out the hearts and then 6 more ink colors in lighter shades to color in the hearts using a Zig Blender pen.

       

After coloring each heart, I used the coordinating die to cut them out.  Then I moved on to the card base itself.  I wanted some horizontal stripes in the lighter color of ink and something over top of them in the darker shade of ink.  I found two stamps that would work perfectly!  The stripe stamp is from a Catherine Pooler Designs set called Eat, Sleep, Create and the wavy line stamp is from a stamp set by Simon Says Stamp called I Love Donuts.  All three stamp sets I used are shown below.

         

I used my MISTI to stamp out the horizontal stripe so that I could stamp it straight as well as space it evenly from top to bottom on the card front.  I stamped all the lighter colors with the stripe first, and then I changed out the stamp in the MISTI to the wavy line stamp and stamped over the light colors with the darker colors.  Once all that stamping was done, I arranged the die cut hearts over top of the stripes and adhered with glue.  I love the tone on tone look of this card!

I am debating on whether or not to add a sentiment in the white spaces...If I do, it would most likely be a Happy Valentine's Day sentiment, but I'd have to have just the right size stamp for it!  I'll have to look through my stash to see what I have!

Challenges for inspiration

I had some time to craft this weekend and with no special occasion to make a specific card, I decided to check out the challenges at Simon Says Stamp's blog.  They have two weekly challenges...one on Monday and one on Wednesday.  The Monday challenge theme this week is Sprinkles and Splatters and the Wednesday theme is Back to School.

The first picture below is for the Monday challenge. I had already made up the background using a new stamp from Catherine Pooler called the Canvas Grunge stamp.  I used Over Coffee ink from Catherine Pooler as well.  The other brown ink colors, also from CP, are Icing on the Cake and Sand Castle.  I used the coffee cup, lid, and sleeve die cuts from My Favorite Things as well as the sentiment from their Perk Up Stamp set.  I thought the card could use a little dimension, so I wrapped some raffia ribbon around the Grunge layer to offset the coffee cup.

The second picture is for the Wednesday challenge.  The Back to School theme could be taken several different ways.  I decided upon an encouraging sentiment from Catherine Pooler's Zen Feather stamp set.  The set also contains the feather stamp and I thought they coordinated perfectly.  I used three CP inks, Juniper Mist, Daydream, and Skylight.  I found some patterned paper in my stash that made a nice background and added the tag stamped with a dotted background in Twilight ink from CP.