Sunny Studio - Rainbow Lucky Card

Hello there,

I'm happy to be back on the Sunny Studio blog with this rainbow themed friendship card featuring a mix & match of images from different sets. Since St Patrick's Day is round the corner, I wanted to create a lucky card with rainbow colors, and the Balloon Alphabet was the perfect fit to make the sentiment.

I started off by cutting a large Rounded Rectangle Mat panel out of Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock to create a colorful cloudy rainbow sky using a cloud stencil from my stash along with oxide inks: spun sugar + worn lipstick, dried marigold + spiced marmalade, squeezed lemonade + mustard seed, shabby shutters + mowed lawn, and tumbled glass + broken china. I splattered water all over my panel and dried it with a paper towel. Next I mixed copic opaque white ink with water and used a slim brush to add more splatters to my panel, and then I did the same with black soot oxide ink for contrast and with fossilized amber distress spritz for gold sparkles. Once my panel was dry, I attached it to a 5,5 x 4,25 inches Polka Dot Parade blue paper using 1mm foam tape, and then to a white card base using liquid glue.

Next I stamped my images on 110lb Neenah solar white cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black ink. I cut them all using the coordinating dies, and colored everything using my Ohuhu markers and my Graph'it brush markers. Here is a detailed list of the stamp sets I used: • Garden Fairy - fairies • Little Birdie - birds, birdhouses, branches • Chubby Bunny + Chickie Baby - flowers • Tulip Path Background - butterflies.

For my greeting, I stamped the word "Lucky" on 110lb Neenah solar white cardstock using the Balloon Alphabet along with Lawn Fawn premium dye inks, from left to right: peachy keen, carrot, sunflower, cilantro and kiddie pool. For this particular project, I wanted those letters to be real letters and not balloons, so before stamping them, I masked the balloon details with washi tape, and after die cutting the letters, I just trimmed off the excess of paper below each letter with scissors. I love the white highlights on the letters and the rounded shape is super cute! I stuck everything, images and the word "Lucky", on my rainbow panel using 1mm and 2mm foam squares, and stamped "To have you as my friend" from Clucky Chickens right below "Lucky" to complete my greeting.

To finish my card, I added highlights and details to the images using a white gel pen, and applied white blizzard nuvo drops to the fairies wings to make them super shiny.

SUNNY STUDIO SUPPLIES

- Balloon alphabet stamp set

- Garden fairy stamp set

- Little birdie stamp set

- Chubby bunny stamp set

- Chickie baby stamp set

- Tulip path background stamp set

- Clucky chickens stamp set

- Rounded rectangle mat die set

- Polka dot parade 6x6 paper pack

OTHER SUPPLIES

- Ohuhu markers

- Graph'it brush markers

- Oxide inks: spun sugar + worn lipstick, dried marigold + spiced marmalade, squeezed lemonade + mustard seed, shabby shutters + mowed lawn, tumbled glass + broken china, black soot

- Lawn Fawn premium dye inks: peachy keen, carrot, sunflower, cilantro, kiddie pool

- Copic opaque white ink

- Fossilized amber distress spritz

- Sakura white gel pen

- White blizzard nuvo drops

- Cloudy stencil by Lawn Fawn

- Memento tuxedo black ink

- Black versafine ink

- 110lb Neenah solar white cardstock (images)

- Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock (background)