A rainbow of Happy Watercolour

After what seems like weeks of dark, damp, dismal weather, it made a wonderful change to find the sun pouring through the window this morning. Everything seemed so much brighter and more colourful so how appropriate to find that the challenge at Less is More today is Rainbow. The lovely ladies are celebrating their third birthday too - happy birthday Chrissie, Mandi and Jen and here's my message to you:

... because it does make me very happy to do these fabulous challenges each week!

I've used Stampin' Up's Happy Watercolour set - one of those sets with abstract splodges that I had to have the minute I saw it! This little brushstroke image might look a bit small to be useful but nothing could be further from the truth: It's perfect for building up backgrounds and I love the way you get beautiful variations in ink colour as the strokes overlap - just like in real water colouring (but without the skill requirement!)

To make my rainbow, I used inks mostly from Stampin' Up's Brights family of colours and over-stamped with black stazon. The addition of a silver heart and a fussy-cut arrow turns this into an anniversary or Valentine's day card  and, since the arrow has shot in from off the edge of the card, I'll also link this card up with CASual Friday, where the challenge is Over The Edge.

Here's what you'll need to make today's card

Stamps: Happy Watercolour, Geometrical (for the arrow)

Ink: Real Red, Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry, Elegant Eggplant classic inks, black stazon

Card stock: Whisper White

Other: Owl punch and silver foil card (for the heart), paper snips, stamp-a-majig

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I must apologise for the ghastly photos today. I returned home this afternoon, ready to photograph my card, only to find that my husband had taken the boys off to the football with my posh camera!  Surely he understands that photos of footballers cavorting about on a muddy pitch can only be improved by bad quality, grainy photos whereas my cards need the very finest photographic treatment to make them look half decent! I was about to start divorce proceedings but then I had a cup of tea and everything seemed fine!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and hope to see you back here very soon.

Hugs,