Virtual Rainbows

Another week, another Tiddly Inks challenge! I'm so hooked. This week the theme is Color Me, meaning to use as much color as possible. I've been crushin' on Roy G. Biv for years, so I kinda surprised myself with the relatively soft color palette I ended up using.

I was intrigued by the mostly-pink-and-purple Rainbow Forest digis that Tiddly Inks offered as a freebie through their Group on PaperCraft Planet, so I used that as a starting point. I'd purchased the Gamer digi from Tiddly Inks a bit ago, and the idea of the the "forest" being the game was too good to pass up... My husband really liked the effect, so I'm glad that I listened to my instincts and made this a wheel card. I created a circle with the forest digi in Adobe InDesign.

I used the Distressing technique for the sentiment pieces, wheel background, and the "hill" that the gamer is on. By distressing, I mean rubbing ink onto the paper with a handy wipe. WOW, that came out better than I had anticipated. In fact, the "hill" matches the printed background way better than I ever thought it could; I had planned on more contrast, but it's so pretty I couldn't not use it!

For a final touch, I sewed on a straight-stitch border in blue and orange; my machine's tension's off, so I used the the bobbin thread peeking through to my advantage.

Because I'm still not very good at shading, I wanted to fill up the T-shirt with some sort of logo...and the Human Rights Campaign logo seemed especially appropriate. What a cool kid, right‽


Tiddly Inks Challenge #40: Color Me

Digi stamps & backgrounds: Rainbow Forest and Gamer by Tiddly Inks

Supplies: HP printer & ink, Core'dinations, X-Press Copic and Hammermill cardstocks, MS detailing scissors, ZipDry glue, Fiskars papercutter, deckle scissors and finger knife, emery board, Versamark and ColorBox inks, CelebrateIt! ribbon, sentiment stamps by gstudio, sewing machine & thread, handy wipes, Michaels brad (hidden), Marvy circle punch
Copic markers:
furniture: BV08, V17, V06
shirt: B23, B05, B39, 0, FY1
jeans: B23, B05, B32, E47
skin: E35, E33, E11
hair: G21, G07, G02
dog: C-1, C-5, C-7, E50, 0