Summer Greenery Rainbow Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share a bright and happy rainbow card set featuring the tropical leaves from our Summery Greenery Dies!

For my first card showcasing the Summery Greenery Dies, I started by inking a cardstock panel with Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, and Wilted Violet Distress inks. Rather than a straight rainbow, I layered patches of color adjacent to each other on the color wheel and then spritzed them with water to help them blend a tiny bit more and to get the look of some of the reactive drops. I then arranged all the tropical leaves cut from white cardstock over the top, leaving them plain for a graphic look and to keep the focus on all the wonderful embossed details these dies provide. 

I then inked up a small scrap of white cardstock with a similar blend of inks where I wanted my sentiment to go. I then stamped my "Happy Birthday" greeting from our Big Bold Greetings Stamps using VersaFine Onyx Black Ink, and heating-embossing it with Clear Embossing Powder. Lastly, I used the Big Bold Greetings Dies to cut out a shadow around my greeting and glued another strip of cardstock behind, which had been covered with adhesive to give me a sticky surface to pop the negative portions back in place. Having these sections in place kept my greeting from looking too busy with the white parts of the leaves that were peeking through the openings.

For my second colorful card using the Summery Greenery Dies, I started by die-cutting the tropical leaves from white cardstock. Then I inked each one using a different bright color of distress ink, alternating between Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers, and Wilted Violet. To add a little interest, I inked the left side of each leaf with a heavier hand and kept the right side lighter to give the appearance of a light source on the right. I then die-cut a stitched strip from black cardstock using the smallest pennant from our Slimline Pennant Dies (elongating it by hanging it off the cutting plate and running it through my machine a second time). Lastly, I heat-embossed the sentiment "wishing you a happy retirement" from our Happy Thoughts Stamps using White Embossing Powder with VersaMark Ink.

That wraps up my projects for today. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. I hope I've inspired you to spread a little happiness by sending out a card to someone you love. 😊

Don't forget to check out our Summery Greenery Dies in our online shop, which are currently on sale! Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image so there are lots of ideas to scroll through there organized by set. 💛

Supplies Used:

Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Pennant Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Summer Greenery Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts Ultra Fine Clear Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio