It's the 15th of the month, and time for another Duel. A group of friends on Split Coast Stampers have joined together to challenge each other with a monthly Duel. Our hostess this month for both teams is Kelly and she dished up a great challenge for us!
As Kelly wrote in our instructions:
"...your theme is "We are a Rainbow!" Each of us brings a light and color to life...each of you are an important 'band' of the rainbow, because in order to have it, we all need to be together as one."
Kelly randomly assigned each of us to a color and challenged us to use ONLY that color to make our card. We are allowed to use a white base for the card. My color is red.
Here's my card.
Kelly included red rainbow die cuts from My Favorite Things, red gems from Horizon Group Go Create and a rectangular scallop panel cut from white Stampin Up card stock.
I found THE LAST piece of SU Real Red card stock in my stash and used that for the base panel. Searched everywhere for a stamp set by Taylored Expressions with a rainbow image that would have been perfect as a background. No luck. I think it may have been paid forward to someone in a card kit.
Then I decided to try this jar of chunky red glitter gel by Stickles and painted it on to the rainbow pieces.
I'll die cut "Friend" out of the panel, leaving the outline on the panel. Could not find the exact die that I wanted (it's still MIA) so I subbed this die. Yep, you guessed it! The word did not show up well on top of the Real Red panel.
Ok, now I've ruined the scallop rectangle panel...what to do? I fiddled around a ridiculous amount of time and ended up using the die cut "friend" on the front of the card, cut some the rainbow segments to decorate lower left and right of "friend", and cut the remainder of the scallop rectangle and used it on the inside panel.
Kelly, I'm sorry! You really came up with a fun idea for us. Maybe it's the whole Mercury in Retrograde that made my attempts run amok. Now I'm off to admire the cards by the rest of the Dueling Darlings!
