{"id":41820,"date":"2025-02-15T21:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T02:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=41820"},"modified":"2025-02-23T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:51:58","slug":"spring-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=41820","title":{"rendered":"Spring Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAre you ready for spring? Even thought it’s been cold, I can see tulips & hyacinths starting to push up through the dirt in the flowerbeds. Won’t be too much longer. In honor of the coming spring I have a very flowery card today colored in using mostly complementary colors. A little unusual but I’m liking how the colors look together. Keep reading for a mini art theory tutorial using these colors.<\/em><\/span>
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\nIt’s my turn to host the Featured Stamper Challenge, FS941. So a big congrats to Patti! She has a wonderful gallery & I chose THIS<\/a><\/em><\/span> card to case. I kept the floral theme & layout, but I used different images, dies, colors & made mine a spring card.
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\nTo make my card, I colored & die cut all the flowers with their coordinating dies. The one flower hanging over the greeting oval is actually part of a larger image (you can see it on the set in the product list at the bottom). I just couldn’t make it work as is, so I trimmed off everything except what you see now. The greeting is from another set, but I liked how fit w\/ the card & also fit onto the oval. The scratch sheet below gives you a bit of an idea how I arrived at the colors I used. Before coloring, I almost always stamp onto printer paper & try out my color combos. Even though I have a chart showing all the Copic colors, it helps me tremendously to test them out. Since it’s thin paper, I don’t really blend much, just test enough to see how they work w\/ each other. (The colors I used are in the last picture.) I will mention, when using complementary colors (opposites on the color wheel, like purple & yellow), it’s a good rule to not color them over each other, you will end up with mud. You can get away with a little bit, but not much & they won’t blend well unless you want a dirty, muddy color. One thing complementary colors do well is brighten each other & the contrast catches your eye.
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\nAfter I had all my flowers, I cut the white panel & a purple one to go behind it. I did the same w\/ the greeting then went about putting them all together. I really like how the dot dash rectangle & oval let the color behind show through. The flowers on the side are popped up one more layer.
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\nHere are the Copics I used:
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Supplies: \u00a0(click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Welcome Flower set, Sketch Flower set (greeting)<\/span><\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Paper:<\/b>\u00a0 Staples 110# white, lt purple<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ink:<\/b> Versaclair nocturne, Memento tuxedo black<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Accessories:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span> Brass & Bliss: Dot Dash Rectangles, Dot Dash Ovals, Rectangles, Ovals. Welcome Flower set, Sketch Flower set, Floral<\/span> Edge Cuts <\/span>dies, \u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Misti<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Are you ready for spring? Even thought it’s been cold, I can see tulips & hyacinths starting to push up through the dirt in the flowerbeds. Won’t be too much longer. In honor of the coming spring I have a very flowery card today colored in using mostly complementary colors. A little unusual but I’m liking how the colors look together. Keep reading for a mini art theory tutorial using these colors. It’s my turn to host the Featured Stamper Challenge, FS941. So a big congrats to Patti! She has a wonderful gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the floral theme & layout, but I used different images, dies, colors & made mine a spring card. \\ To make my card, I colored & die cut all the flowers with their coordinating dies. The one flower hanging over the greeting oval is actually part of a larger image (you can see it on the set in the product list at the bottom). I just couldn’t make it work as is, so I trimmed off everything except what you see now. The greeting is from another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,716,339,327,679,14,446,92,11],"tags":[583,717,468,179,112,287,680,115,448,312,144],"class_list":["post-41820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birthday","category-brass-bliss","category-bugsbutterfliesdragonfliesladybugs","category-girlyfemininemothers-day","category-rubbernecker-stamps","category-scs-challenges","category-scs-weekly-favorite","category-springvalentineeaster","category-tutorials","tag-birthday","tag-brass-bliss","tag-copic","tag-easter","tag-flowers","tag-ladybugs","tag-rubbernecker","tag-scs","tag-splitcoast-weekly-favorite","tag-spring","tag-tutorial"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41820"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41879,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41820\/revisions\/41879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}