VIDEO Party Poppin' Rainbow

Hello crafty friends! I'm Lien and I'm so happy to be back on the WOW blog and YouTube channel today! Last week I shared a card without any color in it, so it only seems fitting that I make a rainbow card today.

The fun thing about today's card is that I only used the Party Poppin' trio, so 3 embossing powders only, to create 5 different colors of rainbow arches. The secret? Translucent embossing powders. I'm using a Wonky Rainbow die by My Favorite Things and it has 5 arches so I cut 5 pieces of thick white cardstock for each color I would need and covered each in WOW Ultra Slow Drying Clear Embossing Ink and some embossing powder. For the first, third and fifth arch, I simply covered them in the yellow, the blue and the pink powder respectively. I melted the powder with the WOW Heat Tool and set them aside.

For the second and fourth arch I needed orange and green. For the orange arch I first covered the piece of cardstock in pink embossing powder, heatset it and then covered it in the yellow and heatset it. Since the powders are transparent (or at least the colors are, not the white and gold that are also in these powders) they will "mix" together to create orange. I did the same thing for the green arch, first embossing in blue and then in yellow.

I die cut the arches from each of the panels and then I die cut that rainbow 4 more times out of thick white cardstock. I'm stacking 4 pieces of thick white cardstock behind each embossed arch for some extra dimension. Once that's done, I line them up using the grid on my cutting mat and put a piece of purple tape over them to hold them in place. I made a simple background using the WOW Sprinkled Hearts stencil and some soft grey ink. I backed that panel with a piece of cardboard for sturdy dimension and glued the rainbow on top. I added a sentiment by Honey Bee Stamps and some gold gems by Pretty Pink Posh.

You can see the entire process in the video below, along with a simple matching envelope design!