Today’s project is bright, cheerful and summery and uses a trio of colors you might not think to use together: pink, coral and fuchsia…
I usually play it safe with colors by using combinations that play nicely with each other on the color wheel. But trying new things can be fun, and it’s only ink and paper. So I was experimenting with some non-traditional color combinations when I came up with the colors for this card. It all started with the coral, I love coral, but don’t get to use it often in my scrapbooking projects. Tan and blue came to mind while trying to decide which other colors to use with the coral, but those were “safe” choices and I wanted something a little more off-beat. First I tried pink with the coral and they looked nice together. But I couldn’t think of a third color that would work with them. The coral and pink balanced nicely, so I was looking for a color to add some punch to the project. After trying several different ink colors, I reached for the fuschia, but with reservations --- I thought it would clash. And some might think it does – and that’s okay, but I thought it worked.
The background was created using the same basic method as the last project – “Happy Thoughts” card, except this time I used Vivid! ink. Vivid! ink is a dye ink that comes in bright, vibrant colors and stamps clean and clear. The “rose” stamp comes from the same set as was used for the “Happy Thoughts” card too, although I’m sure the design isn’t a rose, it worked as one. To create the background paper, I started with the coral color, Tea Rose, and stamped several images randomly over the cardstock. Then I used the pink ink, Orchid, to stamp a few more images, overlapping some of the previous ones and filling in the background. Finally, I stamped the same design again, this time using the Fuchsia ink, randomly over the background on top of the previous images.
Since the Fuchsia ink was the boldest, it made those images seem to come “forward” creating dimension in the background paper…
I stamped a flower using the Tea Rose ink on a scrap of the same cardstock used for the background and cut it out to use as an embellishment. A few hot pink pearls at the center added a nice accent and helped tie in the fuchsia color in the background…
The sentiment was also stamped in Tea Rose ink on a cardstock scrap…
To help tie all the colors together, a coral cardstock was used to mat the background paper, and the Fuchsia ink was used to distress the edges of the card.
If you’d like to step out of your color “box” and try something different, here are all the instructions you need to make this card yourself…
“just rosey” card
Skill Level: easy
SUPPLIES:
Clearsnap: Vivid! Ink: Tea Rose, Fuchsia and Orchid {mini or full size pads}
Hero Arts: Messages Clings Stamp and Sealife PolyClear stamp
Paper Accents: Steel Magnolia and Raspberry muslin cardstocks
Memory Box: Pearl Stickers: hot pink
Tools: adhesive, scissors and paper trimmer
DIRECTIONS:
1) Cut a 5 X 10 piece of off white cardstock and fold in half to make card. Ink edges of card using Fuchsia ink.
2) Cut a 4 ½ X 4 ½ piece of coral cardstock and adhere to center of card.
3) Cut a 4 X 4 piece of off white cardstock. Ink “rose” stamp using Tea Rose ink and stamp randomly over cardstock. Then ink stamp using Orchid ink, and fill in gaps, overlapping previous images. Finally, stamp several images over background using Fuchsia ink. Adhere stamped background paper to center of card.
4) Stamp 1 “rose” on a scrap off white cardstock with Tea Rose ink; cut out and adhere at upper left of card.
5) Stamp sentiment on a scrap off white cardstock with Tea Rose ink; cut out and adhere at lower right of card.
Please come back by for more summer themed projects {I have a necklace and mini album coming up!} and be sure to check out Jean’s ColorSyle blog for more great projects featuring Clearsnap products!
---tami
Love the new header and the card is very pretty. TFS
Posted by: Shere | July 26, 2010 at 10:09 AM