Rainbow of Strength

Encouragement, flowers, Get Well, My Favorite Things (MFT), Ocassions

Hello friends!  Hope you had a great weekend and maybe did some crafting?  Did you participate in the World Card Making Day events?  There were so many things going on, so I basically opened up the You Tube video marathons and watched while I did a bit of crafting.

I was inspired by the Craft Roulette WCMD event with several crafters showcasing their version of the parameters they were to use for that event.  It was several hours long!

Here’s the card that I made with the Craft Roulette World Card Making Day parameters of – PROJECT: A2 card, COLORS: rainbow, ELEMENT: nature, and RANDOM: black dots

I also combined my card using one of the sponsor’s products which I’m entering for this week’s sketch challenge from My Favorite Things.

I’ve had these stamps in my collection for quite a while and it was nice to pull them out for this card.  I actually needed a card for an elderly woman who recently fell and broke her hip, so she’ll be recovering with therapy for a while. 

For my card, I used the MFT Watercolor flowers and stamped them in red-, orange- and yellow-colored layers and cut them out (This was my nature element parameter).  The middle was cut with the MFT Stitched Hexagon dies that I ink blended with green and blue inks (These colors make up the rainbow parameter).  I splattered the shape with white and black. *Before I splattered, I stamped the sentiment from the MFT Essential Sentiments set with black pigment ink and heat embossed it with clear EP.  (The sentiment was cut in portion to fit my design.)

For the A2 sized card base (makes up project parameter), I used a MFT Triangle background stamp (retired) in the same kraft color that I inked the centers of the flowers with.  I also used this color to ink around the edges of the card.  I than layered two more cut out shapes for the ink blended sentiment panel for dimension and attached to the stamped card base.  I used foam tape to pop up the flowers and lastly added some black gemstones (for the black dots parameter).

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Hope you’ve enjoyed my inspiration!  See you soon!

Challenges:

  1. My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch – MFTWSC666
  2. Aud Sentiments – Ink Blending &/OR Fall Colors + sentiment
  3. The Crafty Addicts – Anything Goes
  4. The Flower Challenge – Anything Goes with Flowers – Happy 7 years!
  5. Krafty Chicks – #684 Stamp Act
  6. Alphabet – ‘N’ is for Nature
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14 thoughts on “Rainbow of Strength”

  1. You met the challenge so well with all the elements you used and I love that sketch design too. The shading of color on the image panel is so pretty and looks perfect with the flowers and black dots. I’m sure the woman who receives this will enjoy it. I didn’t do any challenges for WCMD, but I did fill up another donation box of older stamps so I’m gradually reducing this overwhelming stash which is a good thing for me! Have a great week ahead!

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  4. There’s not too many things worse than breaking a hip I don’t imagine. I know she’ll have some rehab and I also know this card with cheer her up. Great take on the sketch and love the watercolored flowers. So pretty.
    Lynn

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  5. An inspirational sentiment and card Vicki,love your background and embellishments,hope she makes a full recovery

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  6. This is absolutely brilliant Vicki love those flowers and the background it looks amazing and such a lovely sketch to follow well done you
    hugs
    lolo x

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  7. Beautiful card Vicki love all the geometric shapes and watercoloured flowers.Nothing worse than breaking a hip hope she makes a good recovery.
    Carol x
    Thank you for joining us at The CRafty Addicts
    Carol DT x

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  9. Beautiful Vicki..love the design and inking and the flowers are so pretty..great job doing all the elements, my brain would have wandered off and I would have done my own thing..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  12. I am sure she will smile when she sees your beautiful card. Love the rainbow colors – and all the elements required. Great job. I did SU WCMD – it was 3 hours long – made the cards and they are already mailed out – no picture of course. Have a great weekend.

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  14. Wow you nailed the layout, and the person that gets this card is going to love it. The bright fun colors will surely cheer her up. Awesome card, Vicki.

    Hugs
    Sue

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