In The Mood For Color

What's your favorite color? Usually everyone has one and sometimes it changes over time. Color comes in fashion, as we know companies have whole departments that try to predict the colors that will be popular so that they can steer their manufacturing products in that direction. Whether it's clothing, cars, home appliances, or whatever. Isn't it great that stamp companies make so many different shades of inks and paper for us to play with?!

In Altenew Academy's In The Mood For Color class, it was interesting to learn that different colors inspired different moods, or meant different things. I know often when I make sympathy cards they usually use some black, which must be some old notion from long ago that we still use today.

I decided to get out of my "rut" for this card and do a rainbow of colors to celebrate all colors and you could make this "your" card by layering it onto the colored cardstock of your choice to make it look completely different.

To make this card I started with a piece of 80 lb. Neenah Solar White cardstock cut to 4" x 5 1/4" and stamped different sized circles for a background using Altenew's Halftone Circles stamp set. This is such a versatile set and it was fun stamping all those different colors. The colors I used were all Altenew's Crisp dye inks in the following colors: Crimson, Autumn Blaze, Fresh Lemon, Orange Cream, Dusk, Just Green, Lagoon, Pinkalicious, Aqualicious, and Deep Iris.

I decided that I wanted to have the die cut greeting popped up, but instead of adding foam tape, die cut four different colors of cardstock and layered them so that there was a "rainbow" of sorts under the black die cut. I used Altenew's Simply Hello  die for this. I white embossed the sentiment from Halftone Circles on black cardstock and used foam tape to pop that up also.

Then I added some crystal dots for a little sparkle and affixed the entire piece onto a piece of aqua cardstock.

Thanks for looking and I hope you got some "color encouragement" from this post!