Create with Connie & Mary Saturday Blog Hop

Celebrating Sale-A-Bration!

Happy Saturday and welcome to a blog hop from the Create With Connie & Mary team! I love creating for our team each week. We have such a great group of designers. This week we are all using our favorite non-stamp product and mine is the Brilliant Rainbow Dies.

I started out with the card you see on the top and I was saddened to have to throw away the rainbow pieces that I cut out with the dies, so I turned them into a second card. You know us papercrafters, we hate to throw stuff away!

The first card I created is a Shaker Card. I love our brand new Frosted Beads Assortment that I used. The colors are perfect for a rainbow card. You can see what I mean in these photos:

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Next, I added the same embellishments to the front of card #2 under the rainbow. I glued them in place using liquid glue. Once dry, I poured some of our Fine Tip Glue Pen in-between the beads to glue them to each other so they wouldn’t fall off. You can’t even tell that I did that!

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Want to create one of these cards or both? Here are the steps:

Card #1:

• Card Base: Magenta Madness Cardstock 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″. Score and fold at 4-1/4″.
• Layer #2: Basic White Cardstock 5-1/4″ x 4″/ Glue to card base.
• Layer #3: Sunshine & Rainbows Designer Paper 5″ x 3-3/4″. Cut the rainbow shape with the die. Keep the cut-outs for card #2. Stamp the sentiment above the rainbow using Misty Moonlight Ink. Set aside (Use tip shown above).
• Layer #4: Window Sheet 4-3/4″ x 3-1/2″. Glue to the back of the rainbow cut-out. Add Foam Adhesive Strips around the rainbow cut-out on the window sheet. Place a small amount of the Frosted Beads Assortment inside the die-cut area. Peel the strips off of the Foam Adhesive Strips and press a Basic White Cardstock piece over the foam that measures 3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″. Glue layer to card front using pieces of Foam Adhesive Sheets so the height is the same as the strips.
• Layer #5: Sunshine & Rainbows Designer Paper 5″ x 1/2″. Glue about 1/4″ from the bottom of the designer paper layer.
• Clouds: Use the Cloud Punch to punch the printed clouds from the designer paper sheet. Glue to card front.

Card #2:

• Card Base: Magenta Madness Cardstock 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″. Score and fold at 4-1/4″.
• Layer #2: Basic White Cardstock 5-1/4″ x 4″/ Glue to card base.
• Layer #3: Sunshine & Rainbows Designer Paper 5-1/4″ x 1-3/4″. Glue about 1/4″ from the bottom of the white layer.
• Rainbow: Glue the rainbow strips cut from card #3 to the center of the card.
• Sentiment: Stamp the sentiment above the rainbow using Misty Moonlight Ink.
• Clouds: Use the Cloud Punch to punch the printed clouds from the designer paper sheet. Glue to card front.
• Bling: Add liquid glue below the rainbow and press some of the Frosted Beads Assortment. Allow to dry and add adhesive over the beads using the Fine Tip Glue Pen.

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