I have found the perfect color combo for masculine Valentine’s Day cards (or guy cards in general). I’ve used it on a number of cards already and it always works. The combo is: green (could be one or several shades of green) + brown (or kraft; again could be one or several shades) and white.
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CARD DETAILS
I love travel stamps. I love stamp sets with images that I can use to create little scenes. I love “out of the box” stamps that work for both girl and guy cards. Flipping through my stamps I found two sets from Hero Arts – Road Trip and The Adventure Begins. Both “fit the bill” perfectly and inspired me to create a fun guy Valentine’s Day card.
If you’d like to re-create this project, follow these instructions:
- Stamp tent and sign onto white paper using Hero Arts Intense Black ink, color using Copic markers and cut out right up to the edge. Use a black pen or marker and color the side of the paper to hide white.
- Stamp identical tent and sign onto kraft panel cut to 3 3/4 x 5 1/2″.
- Stamp tree line using Green ombre ink. The tree line stamp isn’t as long as I have it here, so stamp a part to the right of the tent and a part to the left of the tent overlapping a bit in the middle.
- Stamp sentiment in black.
- Stamp hearts line under the sentiment, stamp individual hearts.
- Adhere tent, foam mount sign. Use white gel pen to color sign post.
- Stamp XOXO in black onto gray strip, foam mount onto panel.
- Adhere panel onto A2 top folding card base, add twine, adhere small and medium droplets.
There are many ways to color these images, I went with Copics and used a newly discovered color combo – YG99, YG95 and YG93 (I have a Copic Color Combo post coming up very soon, stay tuned if you are waiting for it).
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Hero Arts The Adventure Begins Stamps Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Road Trip Stamps Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Acts of Kindness Stamps Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Love Stamp & Cuts Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Snow Layering Papers PS610 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ombre Lime to Forever Green Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Hero Arts Ink Pad Intense Black Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
 Neenah Classic Crest 80 Lb Smooth Desert Storm Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Pretty Pink Posh 4MM Clear Droplets (small) Shop at: SSS |
 Pretty Pink Posh 6MM Clear Droplets (medium) Shop at: SSS |
 Sakura Quickie Glue Pen Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 May Arts Natural Twine String Burlap Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Uni-ball Pen Signo Gel White Two Pack Shop at: SSS |
 Best Creation Big Squares 3D Foam Tape Adhesive Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Martha Stewart Mini Scoring Board Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 EZ Runner Grand – Permanent Shop at: SC | AZ |
 EZ Runner Grand – Permanent – Refill Shop at: SC | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG93 Grayish Yellow Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG95 Pale Olive Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG99 Marine Green Shop at: SSS | AZ |
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I love outdoor themed cards. And the kraft, white, and green is a perfect color combination. Thanks for sharing.
Cute card! I love this colour combination and it is fitting for masculine cards. You could even add in acolour like blue too if another colour was needed.