How To Make 2 Rainbow Cards In Minutes

You too can make stunning rainbow cards in minutes! Read on to find step-by-step instructions and lists of supplies to create rainbow cards.

These cards are perfect for mass production because they are so quick and easy.

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Thanks Partial Rainbow Cards

We’re just using a portion of the colors in the rainbow for this card. We’re using red, orange, yellow, and green. And we’re going to create a mini-slimline card so we’ll begin by trimming a piece of white cardstock to 3 1/2″ x 6″. Using a blending brush we’ll load the red ink onto the brush and blend it onto the long edge of the card panel.

Rainbow Cards Ink Blending

Hint: Rotate the brush in circular motions beginning off of the panel and moving onto it. As a result, we don’t end up with a big blob of color on our panel. It may take going over the color a couple of times so that we can get a nice dark tone.

Now we’ll do the same with the orange, and the yellow and finish with the green. We want to overlap the colors as we add each new one. We overlap because we want to get a good blend between the two colors. And lastly, beginning with the green we’ll go back over each seam between the colors to reinforce the blend.

Once the ink has dried we’ll stamp the silhouettes. Hint: We want to use multi-media ink because we want to ensure that the silhouette ink doesn’t bleed. Using a stamping tool just in case we have to stamp the images more than once to get a good solid print we’ll stamp the first image centered in the card panel. And, we’ll stamp twice more, once on each side at different rights and angles. We do this because we want them to appear a little bit different.

Sentiments and Assembly

For the sentiment, we’re using a die set that cuts the word “thanks” and a shadow. We’ll use black cardstock for the word and white for the shadow. And we’ll glue them together using liquid glue.

To assemble the card we trim our card panel to 3 1/4″ x 5 3/4″. Then we use an adhesive dot runner to center the panel on a white 3 1/2″ by 6″ card base. Lastly, we add the sentiment using liquid glue or the dot runner.

Supplies

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• Cardstock: Card base – – Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Solar White; Card panel – Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White; Sentiments – Gina K Designs Black Onyx
• Stamp: Gina K Designs Autumn Silhouettes
• Die: Sugar Pea Thanks and Shadow
• Ink: Gina K Designs Ink – Red Velvet, Tomato Soup, Prickly Pear, Fresh Asparagus: Pigment Ink – Altenew Obsidian
• Adhesive; Gina K Designs Adhesive Dot Runner; – Bearly Art Glue
• Bending Brush: Gina K Designs
• Stamping Tool: Misti

Encircled Rainbow Cards

We’ll use the same technique and ink colors for this card that we used for the first card. But we’ll switch up the order of the colors. This card will also be a mini-slimline and we’ll begin using a piece of white cardstock trimmed to 3 1/2″ x 6″ for the card panel.

We’re going to start by adding the red ink with a mini blending brush. We want to start on one end, moving our brush in small circular motions to add the ink all the way across the card right through the middle.

Then we’ll add the orange on either side of the red and we’ll do it the same way that we did the red. And then we’ll add the yellow and the green on both the top and the bottom. We want to make sure to blend the colors just like we did for the first card.

Finishing

Next, we’ll cut three 1 1/2″ circles from the front of our card base. Hint: we want to make sure that there is enough space between the circles to maintain the integrity of the card front. Now that we have the circles cut we’ll slide the colored ink panel in behind them. Using a pencil we’ll lightly trace each circle onto the card panel.

Now we’ll stamp our leaf silhouettes within each circle rotating each of them in order to provoke interest. Once the ink is dry we can add the card panel to the inside of the card base. Hint: we may have to trim along one of the long sides a bit so that the colored card panel doesn’t hang out under the card front.

To finish off the card we’ll cut “hello” three times using a die. And then we’ll use liquid glue to attach them to each other. We do this to add dimension to the sentiment. When it’s ready we’ll place the sentiment on the card front where we want it to be.

Then, holding the sentiment in place we’ll open up the card and mark the sentiment on the backside where it pokes out within the circles. We do this because we don’t want to add glue where the sentiment sticks up over the circles.

All that is left is to attach the sentiment with liquid glue.

Supplies

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• Cardstock: Card base – Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Solar; Card panel – Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White; Sentiments – Gina K Designs Black Onyx
• Stamp: Gina K Designs Autumn Silhouettes
• Die: Sentiment – Gina K Designs Hello; Circles – Gina K Designs Master Layouts Master 3; Banner (for inside of card) – Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2
• Ink: Gina K Designs Ink – Red Velvet, Tomato Soup, Prickly Pear, Fresh Asparagus: Pigment Ink – Altenew Obsidian
• Adhesive; Gina K Designs Adhesive Dot Runner; Bearly Art Glue
• Mini Blending Brushes: Gina K Designs

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