Hello & welcome to my blog,
My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. I blog twice a week, once on a Sunday where I mainly showcase a stamp set or dies & sometimes special DSP. My second blog is mid week on a Wednesday where I look at techniques, colour challenges, card sketches, fun folds, tools & equipment & ways to make or improve your projects. That's what this blog is about.
One of the tools available from Stampin' Up® is a Colour Wheel which features 4 main elements - Analogous, Monochromatic, Complimentary & Triadic. This wheel is great to help you create with colour if you don't know what to put together or to give you some inspiration. I have featured the colour wheel in my blog on 10/4/24 (Monochromatic), 29/5/24 (Analogous), 16/10/24 (Monochromatic) & 1/1/25 where I explained in more detail what the Colour Wheel is & how & why to use it.
In this post I a looking at the Triadic combination of colours. Triadic colour schemes are made by finding three colours equally spaced apart on the colour wheel.
These colour combinations can feel just as predictable (think the primary colours of red, yellow, and blue) as they do dynamic or unexpected. If you think of the colour wheel as a dial, find a triadic colour combination you like by shifting the dial one click at a time away from those primary hues. Then, it’s a good idea to pick a predominant colour while letting the other two play important supporting roles in your card design.
The three colours I have chosen are Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist & Azure Afternoon.
I decided to use blending on half a sheet of Basic White to create a matte focus.
A matte was cut & then embossed with the Plaster Painting embossing folder. On the remainder of the piece I stamped some cute Memento Black butterflies using the Beautiful Butterflies stamp set & trimmed a strip with 2 butterflies then fussy cut the remainder.
A Flirty Flamingo matte was added to the blended matte & applied to a Basic White card base.
The strip was matted with some Azure Afternoon & added to the front.
One of the fussy cut butterflies was added to the strip with Dimensionals while a small one was added to a Lemon Lime Twist matted sentiment as well.
The final butterfly was added inside the card which has a piece of DSP for some added interest.
Now that the card was complete I added a little bling with some Iridescent Faceted gems.
Using a blending brush mutes the colour you use while still giving you some fun results. There are so many combinations that can be made with the Stampin' Up® colour wheel, why don't you give it a try?
Well, that's it for another mid week blog, I hope you've enjoyed it.
My next blog is on Sunday where I will be sharing some maritime themed cards from a Stampin' Up® kit then next week's mid week blog looks at another sketch featured in the Stampin' Up® catalogues.
I hope you can join me for both of them.
Til next time, take care & keep creating.
XX Alison
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