Polychromatic Card

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Happy July!

For my next class in Altenew's Educator Certification Program I selected 'Polychromatic' with Nina-Marie Trapani.  Wow what a class!  For this card, I honed in onto one of the lessons which covered monochromatic backgrounds, using shades of one color family.

Here is the card I will be discussing in detail below:

I chose a pink color family for the roses and greens for the leaves.  I selected a light pink colored cardstock and cut that in half at 5 1/2".  The stamp I used is Rose Reverie from Altenew's Build a Garden.  Using Frosty Ink fresh dye ink, I stamped the image several times to cover the cardstock and getting the images as close as I can.  This light color ink provided a very soft, light outline of the image just enough so that I can see where to color.

Using a small piece of scrap paper of the same light pink, I tested my Copic markers in the lightest shades of pink that I had.  I used the lightest one to shade in the petals but not all the way to the edges of the petals so that the pink cardstock remains.  I then continued with the next shade of pink which was a little darker than the first one and then followed by another shade of pink which was darker than the other two.  I then used my very lightest pink to blend in the shades to soften them all together.

I then did the same steps with the green Copics to color in the leaves.  I do not have a lot of green Copics so I chose from what I had using a middle shade of green and two other light greens.  Here is a close up of the one of the roses and leaves.


After coloring all the images, I then chose where I wanted to crop the image to fit onto the card base.  After die cutting the image, I backed that with black cardstock.  I then selected a sentiment and heat embossed that using white embossing powder onto black cardstock so that it ties in with the black panel and the white border of the card base.  I popped up the sentiment using some foam tape behind it.  Finally, I added some small pink crystal gems to finish the card.

Here is the final card again:

Products used from Altenew:

  • Rose Reverie Build A Garden Outline Stamp Set
  • Fresh Dye Ink Frosty Pink
  • Heartfelt Sentiments for 'Love and Kisses'

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed this card!

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