Looking for a color palette option during the dreary winter months? Why not go bold to help brighten a cold day?
Today’s amazing and colorful project is from one of our newest designers, Amy! Want to create a colorful card for someone that has a winter birthday? January, being the month in between the green and red of Christmas and the red and pinks of Valentine’s Day, doesn’t get much activity in the card making world. We think it deserves a bit of color and so these birthday cards should be filled with bright colors as a pick-me-up during those cold winter months. Follow along as Amy walks us through how to brighten a winter day with your card color palette.
- I start with die cutting the pieces for my project. Today’s project includes 5709-02D Spring Flowers Die, 5749-04D Hip Hip Hooray Die, 5708-01D Wood Plank Panel Die and 5715D Stacked Arches Die.
- I move onto ink blending. The blooms and the Stacked Arch are ink blended with the following Color Fuse Inks: Beachside from Color Fuse Set #9 and Lavender/Magenta from Color Fuse Set #6.
- TIP: I always use watercolor paper when I want to do any ink blending. The inks move easier on the watercolor paper. Make sure you check out the Large Blending Brushes and Detail Blending Brushes 4 Pack in the store.
- Stack the ink blended blooms, mixing and matching colors. I’m a big fan of adding glitter paper to projects.
- Start to layer your card with a white A2 panel at the bottom. The Wood Plank panel comes next with the ink blended Stacked Arch.
- I stamp out my sentiment strip using the 35015 Birthday Celebration stamp set with Magenta Ink. I add this to the card front so that I can position the Hip Hip Hooray sentiment and finish off the card with the positioned blooms.
- Adhere the Hip Hip Hooray sentiment and the three blooms.
It is freezing here in Tennessee right now, and the ground is covered in snow! This card certainly does add a little pep to our step and have us dreaming of Spring, while celebrating Winter! We hope you love this project design as much as we do and feel a bit more empowered to add some bold colors to your Winter card creations!