Using Warm and Cool Colours in Card Making to set the tone......A lot has been written about how colour can affect our moods and emotions. In card making we can use this to our advantage to set the tone of our cards.
Warm Colours can stimulate our senses whilst cool colours are calm, restful and soothing. The Cool Colours are: Blue, Green, Purple and Pink. These work well in any combination. The Warm Colours are: Yellow, Red,Orange and Brown. Again these work well in any combination.
For this card we used a cream hammer base and then built up layers of brown, orange and printed beige background papers. The cardboard flowers were inked with pale orange and earth coloured ink and then part overstamped. A small heart was also rubber stamped in the bottom corner. A butterfly sticker was fixed to acetate and then, using double sided sticky pad, fixed to the card. This covered a same size butterfly printed on the background paper. The wings were pinched so they stood away from the card. A birthday banner across one corner finished the design. If you decide to mix the warm and cool colours on a card then the dominant feeling will be one of vibrancy. Try to match the tone of the card to the occasion. For example if you were to make a sympathy card the cool palette would be appropriate, whereas using the warm palette would send all the wrong messages,no matter what you wrote inside!
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