Hello! Welcome back to another day of card making! In today’s post, we are going to explore color and a great formula for using color in our cards. I took the Altenew Educator course called Color Your Day. In this class, I learned all sorts of tips and techniques when choosing colors to use on my cards. She gave a great formula to use when selecting your color pieces. I learned to use the 70 / 20 / 10 rule. That means seventy-percent of the card could use a focal color, twenty-percent a secondary color, and the final ten-percent a pop of color. The other tips from this class I used in my card are the following: using neutrals to go with vibrant colors, keeping the color choices simple and only using a few, and using small embellishments or silver Nuvo drops to add light color.
Let’s get into how I created this card. First, I cut a gray, neutral card base to be a top folding 4 1/4″ by 5 1/2″ base. Next, I knew I wanted to use teal as my focal point, so I cut a 4″ by 5 1/4″ panel from teal cardstock. I stamped it with a teal ink using the Altenew Pattern Play: Diamond background stamp set. Next, I used two oval infinity dies and cut out the oval in the center of the teal cardstock panel. To cut it, I placed the larger oval in the middle of the card. Then, I taped the smaller oval in the center of the larger over. I die cut it and removed the small frame created between the large oval and the smaller one. After that, I die cut four more smaller ovals to create dimension for the back of the teal patterned oval in the center of the card. I glued all smaller ovals together and set aside to dry. I glued the teal stamped panel to the front of the card base. Then, I glued the smaller teal oval in the middle of the oval opening. I turned it around so that the pattern would be nearly matching that of the panel.
As this portion was drying, I stamped the congratulations sentiment from the Altenew All the Hearts stamp set onto black cardstock using Versamark Ink. After that, I poured silver glitter embossing powder over it and heat set it. I cut four more strips of black cardstock and glued to the back of the sentiment strip to create dimension. Then, I glued the sentiment to the middle of the oval. I held down each end to make the sentiment create a little arc.
Finally, I stamped my flowers using the Altenew Vintage Roses stamp set. I used the larger roses from this layering stamp set to create five roses. For the base layer, I used Altenew Pink Diamonds ink. For the second layer, I stamped it with Altenew Pinkalicious ink. Finally, I finished the roses using Altenew Rubellite ink. These inks pair so well together to create a beautiful vintage rose. I die cut each flower using the coordinating Altenew Vintage Roses die set. As I started placing the roses around the middle frame, I realized five roses of this size was too cluttered. I went with three roses and felt it was exactly what the card needed. I placed two at the top and one at the bottom. Since the card was teal, I decided to not create leaves and just leave the flowers as they were. I finished it off with a few silver glitter Nuvo drops to create my own embellishments.
I loved making this cute card and since it was so easy to create, I will use this as a base card and just change the sentiments to have a variety of cards on hand. Let me know what you thought about this card in the comments. As always, thanks so much for stopping by today!
Lovely card.
Thank you!
Very pretty colours!
Thank you!