Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Color Challenge Week 29 - Night of Navy

Welcome to Week 29 of the Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Color Challenge. This week we are showcasing Night of Navy from the Neutrals Collection. I love this beautiful dark blue and would have to be one of my go-to colors, especially when creating masculine cards. There is something so crisp and clean about this color and it works so well with so many other colors as well as by itself. 

For today's card design, I chose to use the Adventurous Sky Bundle and paired it with the new Everday Greetings stamp set from the Online Exclusives. Did you know that this new stamp set also coordinates with the new Greetings of the Season Dies? I love that Stampin' Up! has given us even more options to create sentiments for our projects, throughout the year. For the background, I chose to use one of the designs from the Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper and I love how the subtle pattern adds texture to the design. The sentiment banner reminds me of when I used to see small planes pull advertising banners behind them as they flew across the sky and we used to squint to see what they would say. This clean and simple masculine card has a feeling of nostalgia that is sure to make someone smile when they receive it.

Products Used:

Adventurous Sky Bundle (item #163447)

Everyday Greetings stamp set (item #165084)

Greetings of the Season Dies (item #164112)

Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper (item #161467)

Night of Navy Cardstock (item #100867)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Night of Navy Classic Ink Pad (item #147110)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Basics Wow Embossing Powders (item #165679)

Night of Navy Stampin' Blends Combo Pack (item #154891)

Blender Pens (item #102845) 

Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels (item #158987)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Night of Navy Cardstock

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

Sentiment Label die cut with the Greetings of the Season Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Layer 1 - 5 1/4" x 4"

Airplane image stamped and die cut with the Adventurous Sky Bundle

Banner Label die cut with the Greetings of the Season Dies

Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5" x 3 3/4"

Creating masculine cards can be challenging, so I thought this week's color challenge would be a great opportunity to create a celebration card that would be perfect for the guys in your life. I love the images in the Adventurous Sky Bundle and the sentiments in the new Everyday Greetings stamp set are so versatile and have wonderful fonts that work great for this type of card. To help make the designer series card front pop, I added a layer of Basic White cardstock to frame it and attached them to the Night of Navy card base to create the framework for my design. I stamped the plane image using Night of Navy Classic ink onto Basic White cardstock and die cut it out using the coordinating dies. I used a Blender Pen to gently blend the ink from the line art image to give the image some soft color that adds to the vintage feel of the design. I attached the plane image to the center of the card base using Stampin' Dimensionals. For the sentiment, I heat embossed the image using White embossing powder onto the Night of Navy label and then adhered it to the center of the Basic White banner label. I added the sentiment to the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals, making sure to center it below the plane image. To cover the holes in the labels, I added Iridescent Pearls for a touch of bling without being too over the top. I colored one of the pearls with the Dark Night of Navy Stampin' Blends Marker and added it to the Basic White banner label to create a contrast that mirrors the look of the plain pearl on the Night of Navy label. I love the clean and simple look of this card design and how well all the elements came together. As you can see, there are a variety of products available to help you create your own monochromatic design.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore using Night of Navy in your projects. It is such a beautiful blue and so versatile, perfect for so many occasions. 

Please take a moment to check out this week's Monochromatic Insta Hop and see all the amazing projects showcasing Night of Navy. Just click here to visit my Instagram to get started. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you like about our projects.

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Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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