Featuring products from the Kristina Werner line at Concord & 9th.

Approach:

• This card began from a new bundle of product, and an idea for a less traditional color palette for a holiday card.

• Some touches of sparkle and shine add an extra touch, in addition to a unique frame for the card.

Techniques:

• Because I knew I was combing a couple of things with details or pattern, I used color in a monochromatic way for each element of the card so the patterns didn’t become busy to distracting.

• The card panel background was created by ink blending through some of the Festive Fun layered stencils. I kept the cardstock and ink colors for this all within the same color family, warm coral-reds. (I used Grapefruit cardstock, and ink in Grapefruit, Sorbet, Watermelon, and Poppy.)

• I used a similar approach with the flower and leaves. I used two shades of light blue cardstock, and stamped in blues of the same color family. For the leaves (on Harbor cardstock) I also added some ink blending (same blue as the ink I stamped with). Adding the blending on the side of the leaf that would be toward the center of the arrangement adds an illusion of depth.

• For the flower, I did stamping in a gradation of blues. I stamped the whole flower in the lightest blue (Powder), then added some deeper blue ink (with an ink cube) to the center portion of the same stamp and stamped it again. (I repeated this a few times to get the blend I wanted.)

• The greeting is white heat embossed on Poppy cardstock.

Colors:

My starting point color palette was Poppy, Sorbet, and light blue.

• cardstock: Concord & 9th Poppy, Grapefruit, Harbor, and Powder. Neenah Solar White.

• ink: Concord & 9th Watermelon, Poppy, Sorbet, Grapefruit, Blueberry, Harbor, and Powder.

Thank you for visiting! I hope you get some time to create something soon.

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