Rainbow on the Horizon

I find rainbows so hopeful, and so am always looking for a way to use them on a card. So thanks, Just Add Ink, for your rainbow challenge #495 - and thanks, CASOLOGY, for your Week 363 'Skyline' challenge, so I had somewhere to put it!
Note: the colour in the photo is a bit weird - it's white on white card!

Ingredients: Stampin' Up! card, (Whisper White, Thick Whisper White), ink (Smoky Slate, Wild Wasabi), pens, (Gorgeous Grape, Blueberry Bushel, Call Me Clover, Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango, Lovely Lipstick), stampset (Sunshine & Rainbows), Shimmery Black Embossing Powder, Stitched Rectangle Dies. 

Other: Versamark ink. 

Rainbow Love

It was a delight to be chosen as guest designer for Retro Rubber's 'rainbow' challenge - I love this symbol of hope and inclusive love.

I went back to one of my favourite suites - Love Blossoms - which I bought from the October 2016 Occasions Catalogue (all the products are Stampin' Up!, unless otherwise stated). I've enjoyed using this suite many times - it's an old friend.
For this card, I used Shimmery White card as a base. I sponged a rainbow of colours onto card, then die cut the heart from them. I kept the flowers simple, so as not to detract from the heart - although I did use Happiness Blooms Enamel Dots to give their centres a little lift!
I've kept the rest of the card simple as well - because really, what else is needed if you've got a rainbow heart? I made the stitched frame using two Die-namics Stitched Square frames. The simple sentiment is from Jar of Love, from the 2016-2017 Annual Catalogue.
Here's the card:

Rainbow cupcakes

I had my first play with Stampin' Up's Salebration set, Hello Cupcake, this week, as I responded to two 'cupcake' challenges. From The Card Concept's 107, I was inspired to make a Clean and Layered card with both rainbow colours and cupcakes. This was reinforced by the delicious looking pastel-y cupcakes in Just Add Ink's #441 challenge.
The result:

Ingredients:

Stampin' Up card (thick Whisper White), ink (Petal Pink, Pineapple Punch, Lemon Lime Twist, Pool Party, Highland Heather, Crumbcake, Elegant Eggplant), stamps (Hello Cupcake, Perennial Birthday).

Other - My Favourite Things Die-namics Stitched Basic Edges

HAPPY birthday!

How could I not feel happy when making a card that uses both sunshine and rainbows? And a lovely sentiment from Stampin' Up's 'Sunshine and Rainbows' stamp set?
This card is a response to two challenges: The Paper Players PP385: 'Rainbows' and Less is More's #367: one layer and stencils. I didn't use much by way of stamps etc, but oh my goodness I used a lot of different inks!

Made Using:

Stampin' Up inks: (from the top, then the left!) Sweet Sugar Plum, Basic Black, Real Red, Calypso Coral, Peekaboo Peach, Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, Cucumber Crush, Emerald Envy, Tempting Turquoise, Pacific Point, Elegant Eggplant, Rich Razzleberry and Delightful Dijon for the sun. 

Other Products: Stampin' Up stamps: Sunshine and Rainbows (sentiment), Heart Happiness (hearts at top)

The Paper Mill layering stencil: Sunrays

Rainbow birthday

CAS(E) this Sketch's sketch #254 was very pretty and floral:

The sketch provided my inspiration - but I think I ended up a bit off-piste - perhaps my decision to try to avoid the literal interpretation of using flowers was to blame! I think you can still see the remains of the sketch, though: 

I do love the new rainbows Stampin' Up has introduced - am going to play with these lots, I think. (And they just beg to be combined with balloons!)
Made using:
Stampin' Up:
Dies (Stitched Shapes, Rainbow Builder Framelits, Up and Away)
Stamps: Lift Me Up, Balloon Celebrations (for the sentiment)
Paper and card: Kraft, Soft Sky, Whisper White, Botanical Gardens Vellum, (and for the rainbow, Marina Mist, Wild Wasabi, Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango, Rose Red (and a random other purple piece)
Derwent Ink Intense Watercolour pencils

Retro Rainbow

I love rainbows, and rainbow cards, so I was pleased to see this challenge from Retro Rubber:

I experimented with a technique I learnt in a class a couple of months ago: Joseph's Coat. I'd tried it with flower outline stamps, but wondered if it would work with something a bit more 'filled in' - like the 'I think you're great' stamp set from the 2015-2016 catalogue. Here's the result:

If I did this again, I'd probably use a lighter purple, since the Rich Razzleberry is a little lost against the Night of Navy. To frame the sentiment, I used a rectangle die that's a bit counter-intuitive, since it 'stitches' the outside of the frame - meaning that the frame becomes what you cut the rectangle out of (if you see what I mean). I liked the result:

For the inside, I tried using two of the rainbow colours together on the stamp:

Made using: 

Stampin' Up Ink: Watermelon Wonder, Daffodil Delight, Cucumber Crush, Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry, Night of Navy.

Stampin' Up paper: Shimmery White, Daffodil Delight

Stampin' Up Stamps: I think you're great (from the 2015-2016 catalogue) and Big on Birthdays

Other: Die-namics Stitched Rectangle Dies