Rainbow City

 

Part of my decluttering, which is still ongoing, is to go through my pile of old craft magazines and see if I kept them because of any projects, layouts or colour schemes that I wanted to try, then actually TRY them before discarding the magazine. In one of them I found a project that used Tim Holtz's Cityscapes stamps, randomly inked with distress inks, spritzed with water and then stamped on watercolour paper. I didn't try it at the time, as I had no watercolour paper, but I've refreshed my supply now so gave it a go - here is the result. So far I've only used the Cityscapes stamps with black ink - the multi-coloured ones give the image a whole new, vibrant character.

I'm sharing this with C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Clean and Simple

When I'd made the card, I thought what a great rainbow effect the random colours had made, and that made me think about the Over the Rainbow challenge at Naughty or Nice - could I stamp the image in "proper" rainbow colours, in the right order, and drop in for another entry into the challenge? Well, I didn't have any violet DI, and when I tried blending to get it, I got a pretty good indigo, so to make up for the lack of violet ink, I made a background for my stamping by die cutting a London skyline scene from violet card. So here we have it, London, the Rainbow City. I have lots of gay friends living in London and I'm sure they'd agree (especially as I don't have a San Francisco stamp!).