Friday 15 April 2016

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!).

 

8 comments:

Barb said...

I love this card Jane and what a fun technique. The image looks great with the diecut behind and I'm sure your friends would appreciate this lovely card. I remember the days when we all used the Big and Juicy pads. I should dig mine out again. Barbxx

Aileen said...

Beautiful card Jane. Love how you have incorporated the die. Looks wonderful

Dotty Jo said...

You could and you did! Two super cards, Jane, and totally perfect for our current Rainbow challenge, Jo x

Cara said...

Love the rainbow cityscape and the background works brilliantly on the second card. Cara x

Brenda said...

Great CAS creations. Love them because they are definitely CAS, but so interesting. Thanks for playing along with us at CRAFT challenge this week!

Lindsey said...

Both these cards are awesome! And you know we're pretty easygoing at NoN, we don't need our rainbows to be strictly scientific. ;) Thanks for joining us —again! — at Naughty or Nice Challenges!
(One of the things I notice when I go back through old cardmaking magazines... how my style has changed. Pages that I'd dog-eared "then" generally don't call to me now!)

Helen said...

Two great cards - thanks for joining us at the CRAFT Challenge.

Helen x

Unknown said...

These are just so cool! I love the long rainbow scene and am so glad you shared it with us at naughty or nice challenges :) I may have to CASE this some time!
Sara