This month Outlawz Colour Challenge was set by me and I chose a rainbow and this image
I have just realised that the image reminds me of the Children’s TV programme Rainbow which was broadcast in UK from 1972 to 1992, so very much part of my childhood.
Rainbows are actually an illusion, caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky. We view rainbows as bands of colour, but actually they are a continuous spectrum of colour meaning the colours blend into one another, with no clear separation between them. The “bands” we see are more a result of how our eyes perceive the different wavelengths of light, not a true division between colours.
For this challenge I chose to use the colours from the mnemonic Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain, Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. There is a children’s rhyme that also divides a rainbow in to colours, “Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue”, but I can never remember that order. Neither is right or wrong as there are no distinct colours.
Driving along this evening we saw a beautiful rainbow and it looked at though the pot of gold might be in our garden, until we got closer of course! According to legend, leprechauns found the abandoned gold and buried it again so no human could ever find it. The old folktales tell us that there is a pot of gold hidden where the end of any rainbow touches the earth.
Anyway on to the challenge
I used an image from Craft with Sarah cut on my Cricut Joy Xtra. I use the colours of the rainbow red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet and also used the Joy to draw a rainbow on the pot. Finished off with flower crystals and mounted on white card with rainbow backing paper. Happy birthday written in rainbow colours with Joy in a bubble flower font.
The card is available to buy from me jane@craftyjanes.co.uk or via Facebook. Would also make a lovely Mother’s Day card, or get well card.