Simon Says Stamp | Color Blocking Take One – Grateful for You Card

Hello, friends! I love color and all things bring, bold and cheerful. As I was relaxing in my craft corner the other day I was inspired to make several Color Blocked cards (in a way, similar to this Valentine’s Day card I shared back in December).

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

I filmed a short video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Facebook page:

CARD DETAILS

Here’s definition of Color Blocking from Google:

Color-blocking is thought of as the exploration of taking colors that are opposites on the color wheel and pairing them together to make interesting and complementary color combinations.

If you think about it, there’s a wealth of options to be explored and lots of color combinations to be experimented with. All you need is pretty colored cardstock or means to make colored cardstock from white (using coloring mediums).

To make the card I’m sharing today I first pre cut paper rectangles to 2 x 2 1/2″. I used several soft pastel colors of cardstock from Simon Says Stamp: Cotton Candy (pink), Sea Glass (blue), Lemon (yellow) and Green Apple (green).

My idea was to have several fruit image panes and one sentiment panel for my card. I selected a few fruit stamps from the Fruit from the Heart stamp set – a watermelon slice, a pear and a grapefruit and a sentiment that reads “I’m so grateful for you” from the Uplifting Sentiments set and “Sweet friend” from the same Fruit from the Heart set.

I clear heat embossed each image after stamping it in clear embossing ink. This gave me beautiful tone on tone results that helped images pop on the panel, yet didn’t introduce another color to the color palette.

Once I had foam mounted these images onto an A2 white side folding card base I also added several sequins from Simon Says Stamp and topped everything with a few Dream Drops in Cloud 9 from Tonic Studios.

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!

Simon Says Clear Stamps Fruit From the Heart Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Clear Stamps Uplifting Sentiments Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Lemon Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Cotton Candy Cardstock Shop at: SSS
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Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS	White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS	Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS