Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Color Challenge Week 20 - Azure Afternoon

I can't believe we are already at Week 20 of the Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Color Challenge. The year is going by so fast. This week I am excited to showcase the beautiful Azure Afternoon from the Brights Collection. There is so much to love about this vibrant blue and I had so many options to choose from to create my card design. I hope you like what I came up with.

For my card design, I chose to use one of the designs from the Bright & Beautiful 6"x6" Designer Series Paper for the background. I love the wonderful tone on tone design and the wonderful subtle texture it adds to the design. I am not a big flower person, but I do love the Stippled Roses stamp set and I wanted to use it for my card design. I also incorporated one of my favorite techniques, heat embossing, to help step up the design to add a touch of elegance. 

Products Used:

Stippled Roses stamp set (item #162657)

Nested Essentials Dies (item #161597)

Bright & Beautiful 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #161449)

Azure Afternoon Cardstock (item #161719)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Azure Afternoon Classic Ink Pad (item #161663)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Wow Embossing Powders (item #165678)

Iridescent Foil Gems (item #162842)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Azure Afternoon Cardstock

Card Base - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Matte Label die cut with the Nested Essentials Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Sentiment Label die cut with the Nested Essentials Dies

Bright & Beautiful Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

For those of you who have been following me, you know how much I love to create clean and simple cards and then stepping them up to make them extra special. This card is no exception and I used one of my favorite techniques to add a touch of elegance to this pretty card design. I also had fun using designer series paper to create my background and I love the subtle tone on tone design with its variations of color. Using the Stippled Roses stamp set, I heat embossed the detailed leaves image in the bottom left and top right corners of the card front layer using Gold embossing powder. I just love how rich and beautiful it looks against the Azure Afternoon background. Using the small rose image, I stamped it several times around the edges with Azure Afternoon Classic ink to create a lovely tone on tone floral design. For the sentiment, I heat embossed the Congratulations image with Gold embossing powder to coordinate with the leaves on the card front. I layered it onto a matte layer of Azure Afternoon and attached it to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up. To complete the design, I added several of the Iridescent Foil Gems to coordinate with the Gold embossing. I love how this card design turned out and how it helped me combine some of my favorite things - the color blue, heat embossing and my love of roses, into one beautiful card design. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore using Azure Afternoon in your creative projects. This beautiful blue is so versatile and would work well for a variety of occasions. 

Please take the time to check out Week 20 of the Monochromatic Insta Hop on Instagram to see all the beautiful projects created using Azure Afternoon. Just click here to get started. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects.

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Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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