Monochrome Backgrounds
Creating a monochrome or ombré background effect on your cards is a really easy way to limit the number of colours you use on a project and create curated designs that will impress the recipient. Whether you stick with different tones of the same colour, or pick analogous colours from the colour wheel, the results look wonderful. There is also a multitude of ways that you can achieve the effect, and numerous products that you can use too; from generic inkpads to textured mediums, and you can even use the inkpads to colour the mediums to help you create colour co-ordinated makes.
Using three or four complementary Distress Oxide Ink, blend diagonally across a panel of white cardstock. Blend back and forth where two colours meet to create a seamless transition.
Blend the same colours of ink onto scraps of white cardstock, we’ll use these for the tone-on-tone embellishments later.
Trim your background panel down to measure 14cm square. Trimming down the background after inking means that you’ll get edge-to-edge colour without any finger prints around the edges
Die-cut your sentiment from white cardstock, and a collection of snowflakes from the panels inked in Step 2. Continue to die-cut, creating enough coloured snowflakes for your design.
Arrange your snowflakes onto the background, with several overhanging the edges, checking placement before gluing down.
Once glued into position, add a sentiment and gems as shown to embellish and layer the panel onto the front of a 14.5cm-square card blank.
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