Think About Color Thursday - Old Olive, Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Ballet Blue, Close to Cocoa

Color Palette:
Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Old Olive, Ballet Blue, Close to Cocoa

What you need to make this card:

Cs:  Perfect Plum, Ballet Blue, Whisper White

Dsp:  Old Olive patterned dsp (I have used an Old Olive pattern from a retired dsp, but look through your dsp packages, even retired ones, to see what designer papers you may have that you can use on your cards!)

Stamp sets:  Good Neighbors (SAB 2010 retired), Congrats (SAB stamp set 2009 - retired)

Inks:  Classic Stampin’ Pads – Old Olive, Basic Black, Ballet Blue; Stampin’ Write Markers – Close to Cocoa, Pale Plum, Old Olive

Punches:  ½” circle, circle cutter such as Coluzzle or Stampin’ Up’s Circle Scissor Plus

Other:  Dimensionals, Old Olive ¼” grosgrain ribbon, glue dot, mat pack piercing kit

How did I make this card?

I began with a Perfect Plum 4 ¼ x 5 ½” card.  The dsp is cut to 4” x 4”.  The Ballet Blue strip is sized to fit beneath the dsp, yet allow for a border around it.

First, I adhered the dsp and Ballet Blue cs strip.  Next, I punched two circles from Ballet Blue cs using the ½” circle punch, and I adhered the circles to both ends of the Ballet Blue cs strip.  I stamped “Congratulations” from last year’s SAB set called “Congrats” in Old Olive ink onto Whisper White cs, trimmed it closely and then adhered it to overlap the Ballet Blue circles.

A large circle cutter is used to cut the Whisper White circle.   If you sometimes have difficulty lining up images, I would recommend using a Stamp-a-ma-jig for the stamping of the house, clouds & tree.  It isn’t necessary, but can be helpful.  I first stamped the house in Basic Black ink, then stamped the roof in Perfect Plum.  The siding on the house is colored in with a Pale Plum Stampin’ Write marker, carefully.  I took care to stay inside the lines so the black ink didn’t smear.  You can use Black Stazon ink so you don’t need to be so careful if you want to.  I colored the window panes and border around the door using the Close to Cocoa Stampin’ Write marker fine tip end.  For the clouds, I use a very simple masking technique – covered over the roof of the house with a small piece of scrap paper & stamped the clouds in Ballet Blue ink. 

The top portion of the tree is inked with an Old Olive Stampin' Write marker and the tree trunk is inked with a Close to Cocoa Stampin' Write marker.

A mat pack and paper piercing added more interest to the circle piece.  The entire circle is then adhered with dimensionals.

Lastly, I tied  Old Olive ¼” grosgrain ribbon into a pretty little bow & adhered it with a glue dot.

Linda