Color Your World

I can't believe it's almost been a month since my last post. It's been a busy month with trying to wrap up the end of another school year. After June 4th I should be back to my normal posts and play time. Until then I've got finals to give and grade, classroom clean up/pack up, and all of the sign off a teacher's got to do. On top of that I have to look into speech therapy for my 4 year old. He's a talker, but something just feels off. I don't think it's anything serious, but I will feel better once we check it. I did get the latest Scrapbook etc. and have been drooling. While looking through the June edition of Scrapbooks etc. I came across a great layout that I can't wait to CASE into a page of my own. In the mean time, I thought it would make a great card too. I love rainbows and clouds and all things sky related so I thought it was perfect for my little card.

The layout:
The rays in Practicing Creativity's You're Dandy set was perfect for the rainbow rays I needed. The clouds that came in the set were the perfect scale size for the card as well. I heat embossed the clouds in white a little longer than normal so that it bubbled some to give them some texture and then I cut each on out. Two of th clouds are mounted up on foam dots to give them some depth. The words are computer generated in purple so that I could use all of the colors of the rainbow. I think the only thing I would have done differently was to sponged more light blue on the sentiment scrap so that the clouds could stand out more.

Challenges used:
Crafty Calendar - the great outdoors
Stampin' for the weekend - smile/cheer up
Saturday Crafter - no patterned paper
Quixotic Challenge - word/sentiment focus
Wee Memories - sky's the limit
Paper Sundaes - favorite book, poem, or fairy tale (Wizard of Oz and the Over the Rainbow song).