PTI Blog Hop

Time for another PTI blog hop and this time it is all about inspiration from this picture:



The first thing I noticed was the color variation on the wall. I adore rainbows and this was like one big happy rainbow. The rainbow even looks more "adult" since the colors aren't in the traditional order. I've seen this look done on several blogs I follow lately (including Nichole's) and thought I would give it a try myself. At first I thought I would do this as a no layer kind of card, but after I started I quickly discovered it wouldn't be. My first attempts was streaky and just plain not right. I tried it again and thought it was better but not big enough for what I had in mind. For my third try at this technique I thought I nailed it. I loved how the colors seemed to flow into each other and though it wasn't big enough for a no-layer card I could still make it a CAS card. This kind of a background works well with shillouettes either in white or black, and I went with black. I took the placement of the stamps from the layout of the picutre. All of my stamps are from Out On a Limb. I added some black bling in the center of some of the bigger flowers, and then to blanance the card I carried some of the black up to the opposite corner with three, slighly bigger black rhinestones. I mounted the foucal image on black cardstock and then PTI's Hawaiian Shores. All of that was then mounted on the white cardstock base.



After I finished it, I started to clean and noticed my second attempt laying there. The poor thing was just begging to be part of a project, so I took pity on it and turned it into a slightly smaller card (4.25 x 4.5). I really liked the imperfect edges of the color swipes and wanted to keep that in my card, so I cut around it. The same stamps were used, but this time instead of adding bling I simply took some black ink pad and rubbed it around the edges. The result was a nice frame that looks very similar to an outline. It was then layered on top of the white base. Another great CAS card. Overall I find it more relaxed than the first one, but still very worthy on it's own.



Again, I love how the backgrounds turned out in a rainbow of colors and with the branches it just seemed to go together. Because I see the rainbow in this I thought it would also fit the challenge at Embellish: use the rainbow colors and rainbows.