hello! welcome back to day three of the papertrey ink june countdown to new stamps! today i wanted to share a card that is a little less about camp and more about summer in general, so i came up with a happy summer design with a focus on the individual images and pops of summer color. a color blocked card like this takes a little planning and measuring to get the blocks right, but i always love the outcome.
first, i stamp the images on scrap paper in a stacked, puzzle pieced kind of way to figure out how to block them - this works well on my grid pad, so i can pay attention to the space around the images and the sizes of blocks i'll need to cut. once i have the puzzle figured out, i search through my scraps for the right colors - in this case, a fun, summer palette. i wanted the colors to really shine on this design, so i stamped my images in slightly darker shades of the same color as the paper, coloring them in with slightly lighter shades of copics to make them pop just a bit. clean and simple stamping and lots of color make me a happy camper - pun intended! as always, you can get all of today's scoop on nichole's blog and then head back here tomorrow for another look at hello mother, hello father...
see you then!
:) lexi
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(hello mother, hello father will be available on june 15!)
