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Somewhere Over The Rainbow

3/15/2020

A Rainbow is a reminder of better times to come. You just have to keep looking forward.
--Monica M.

I'm so excited tp be sharing my latest creations with you all. This is something that I took so much time and pride in making. I made total use of my Cricut as well. If you are wanting to follow me you can find my items on Pinterest

My friend Eva Begany hosted a craft & crop event in Whittier, Ca. and the theme was rainbows. Since it this was a March event, she didn't particularly want to have a standard St. Patrick's Day theme. I totally loved the thought of such a colorful theme. Even more so because it matches my website colors! I chose to do more of a bright pastel than the standard primary colors.

We had a choice of three crafts for trading

A Loaded Clip Board
A Rainbow Pocket Letter (standard)
A Rainbow Shoebox

I decided I would make the clip board and the shoebox.

This digital paper pack are what I used for today's crafts: Pastel Rainbow Digital Paper .

Loaded Clipboard

The Clipboard

For the loaded clipboard we were asked to decorate a 6in. x 9in" clip board. The idea was to make it as colorful as possible. We could use anything to decorate it, but it had to have three things attached to it: a mini pocket letter, two tags, and three embellishments.

The Mini Pocket

For the mini pocket I didn't just want to make cards embellished with colorful things. I truly wanted them to have some meaning. So I came up with representation cards of quotes. Can you guess what they are?

Somewhere over the rainbow
Rainbow Bright
Sunshine On A Cloudy Day
Ticket To Happiness

Vertical Divider

You Color My World
Taste The Rainbow
Pocket Full Of Sunchine
Be Kind (note inside)

I figured it would be a cute idea if people could figure them out. Personally I like the Skittles quote.

The Tags

Okay...for the tags, I tried to make them simple yet colorful. I used printed rainbow paper with a solid paper. I also found this really cute rainbow chevron ribbon that fit the whole theme. I figured I needed to have some more color to it and gave it a rainbow backdrop as well. Can never get enough color in.

The Embellishments

The three embellishments I chose to make were a happy cloud paper clip topper, a star printed double bow and a rainbow star rosette. Once again using that print and cut feature on the Cricut allowed me to continue with the same paper patters throughout my whole design.

The Rainbow Box

For the rainbow box I wanted to again keep the paper pattern going. I sent my file to print at Kinkos so that I could print out a large 11 in. x 12 in. print out in order to cover the whole box. Modge Podge was my friend for this event. I used a varying circle design from the digital paper pack. In the box we were asked to put in an item of every color of the rainbow. It could be anything we wanted. Me being me, My rainbow has 7 colors from the digital paper pack so I decided one item type for the 7 colors of my paper pack in rainbow rather than just one single color. I always have to go against the tide.

The Rain"BOW"s - Pink

Love the pun! and yes they are bows in different polka-dot patterns. I figured this one would be a cute embellishment pack to have.

Rainbow After The Rain - Peach

This next one has a cute little quote I came up with, "You are my rainbow after the rain." I made a rosette badge that could be used in any way. It would make a perfect gift topper, badge, card embellishment or more.

Rainbow Through Planning - Yellow

Okay...So I went to my stash of unopened planner items (cuz you can never have enough) and pulled out my a wonderful Rainbow pen, rainbow washi, and a cute bunny magnet from Simply Gilded. I used a simple yellow background for this gift.

Rainbow Baker's Twine - Mint

So your probably wondering why baker's twine...but look at all the colors! it's perfect for cards, gifts, and you can even use all the colors at once to embellish a tag.

Rainbow Roses - Aqua

I have always loved having all the colors of the rainbow represented in flowers and how well nature knows how to combine and look how cute!

Rainbow Leaf Ribbon - Light Blue

Okay... So I found this browsing Amazon and totally fell in love! I just can't believe how adorable this is.

Rainbow Chevron Ribbon - Lilac

You can never have enough ribbon and what's not to like about chevron print. Even more so because it's rainbow color!

So there you have my gifts...one for each color of the rainbow. I think I may even have tossed in a few more items after the fact. That's totally up to each person. I think that it helps to de-stash as well as get items you probably never had in your supply.

For this even we had to wear wigs. I found a really cute rainbow wig on amazon! I loved how it looked.

Below are some more pics of the event.

Thanks for visiting!

I truly hope that I have offered some crafty inspiration to make your own gifts, trades or events. Below are some of the items I used to make some of the items above. Your support is greatly appreciated.

XOXO - HeartcraftPaper