Today I’m showing you an elegant colour scheme for card making, and although it uses grey ink, this helps elevate the card along with the gold and navy colours. You can easily adapt this card design, but I like to keep elegant cards simple with only a few cohesive colours and a metallic embossing powder in there to add a touch of glamour.
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Elegant colour scheme for card making: colouring the flowers
Start off by heat embossing the Altenew Cartoon Tulips in embossing ink and heat set with gold embossing powder. For the colouring, I used Altenew Watecolour brush markers and therefore heat emboss this on watercolour cardstock. If you choose a different colouring medium, make sure you cardstock is also right for medium.
Colour in the tulips with Evening Grey watercolour brush marker from the Spring Garden collection. I like to add colour to the base with the marker and then a separate brush that has clear water on it to pull the colour out.
Elegant colour scheme for card making: Bringin the card together
After the tulips have dried, using the coordinating die to cut out the images. Next, die-cut the Watercolor Strips Die out of Nautical Hero Hues cardstock and foam mount this onto a white card base.
To finish the card off, add a sentiment stamped in Juniper Mist ink from the Leaf Canopy stamp set and add it to the front of the card. Also, embellish with some matt gold sequins to tie in with the heat embossing.
Supplies
Elegant colour scheme for card making
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 Leaf Canopy Stamp – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  Cartoon Tulips Stamp Set – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  Watercolor Stripes Cover die – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |
 Cartoon Tulips Die – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  Watercolor Brush Makers – Spring Garden – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  Juniper Mist Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |
 WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) | CM |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink refill Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Metallic Gold Rich Pale – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
 Nautical Hero Hues Cardstock – Hero Arts Shop at: HA | BP |  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Cardstock Shop at: SB | BP | CM | Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb Cardstock Shop at: BP |
 Original MISTI 2.0 – My Sweet Petunia Shop at: ALT | CPD | SB | HA | BP | CM |  Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive – Tonic Studios Shop at: TS (UK) | TS (US) |  Instant Dimension foam Tape – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |
 WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version) Shop at: CS (UK) | WOW (UK) | WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version) Shop at: CPD | WOW (US) |  Crafter’s Essential Bone Folder – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |
 Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |  Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
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This post was produced as part of my design team work for Bumbleberry Papercrafts have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from Bumbleberry Papercrafts to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of and with products that I love. The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert.
