Layered Love for a Red, White and Blue PPA Color Challenge

I’m thrilled to be hosting this week’s Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge – PPA307.  What fun!  I selected a combination of colors that could easily be used to make a patriotic card (Independence Day is just around the corner!).  Still, I didn’t go the patriotic route for this card.  With Night of Navy, Pool Party and Real Red as the base colors, here’s my card for this week’s challenge:

Layering Love, Stampin' Up!, Brian King, PPA307

And here’s the banner for the challenge that inspired my card:

PPA-307

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

  • Layering Love with Sweet & Sassy.  I adore the sentiments and images in Layering Love, the stamp set I used for this “live, laugh, love” sentiment.  Each one of the sentiments in the set pairs with one of the new Layering Framelits (circles, ovals, squares and hearts).  I used one of the Sweet & Sassy Framelits (hearts) to crop this sentiment.
    Layering Love, Stampin' Up!

    Layering Love, Stampin’ Up!

    If you’d like to print off the measurements of the Layering Framelits, PLEASE CLICK HERE:file graphic

  • Enhanced White Embossing.  Veramark is a great slow-drying ink that is perfect for heat embossing – the Stampin’ Emboss Powder sticks perfectly to the ink.  If you are embossing with White Stampin’ Emboss Powder and want to make sure you get a super-clean image, stamp with Whisper White Craft Ink (slow-drying pigment ink) and sprinkle your powder of that.  It’ll help to ensure there are fewer white spots on your image.

    Whisper White Craft Ink, Stampin’ Up!

  • Think Ahead.  When assembling the layers of a card, it’s important to consider every step along the way before you start gluing everything down.  Here’s an example, I snipped the Night of Navy and Pool Party strips just a little bit longer than I needed them to be so that I could glue them down to the Whisper White base and then snip them off for a quick-and-easy-and-clean band.  With that in mind, it was important for me to complete that step before gluing the Whisper White panel to the Real Red panel beneath it – it would have been a lot harder to snip along the white panel’s edges if the red panel was already there.  You’re welcome!  🙂

Stamp Sets:  Layering Love  Papers:  Pool Party, Night of Navy, Real Red, Whisper White  Inks:  Whisper White Craft  Accessories:  Sweet & Sassy Framelits Dies, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Won’t you pop over to the Pals Paper Arts site to see the cards by the design team members and to play along with this week’s challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

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22 Comments

  1. This color combo makes my eyes happy – gorgeous card! This looks like a fashion statement!

  2. Beautiful job, Brian. Love the bold heart and the crisp stripe running diagonally!

  3. This is a great card ! That white for the sentiment just pops !
    Good color combo choice and that stamp set is a keeper .

  4. Love your color combo and your “hints”! Thanks Brian :0)

  5. Love those stripes and your layout, Brian! Perfect color combos, great card!

  6. Two words…Love It

  7. Wonderful card, Brian. Perfect showcase for this sentiment! Love the addition of Pool Party to the patriotic colors this challenge!!

  8. Great card, Brian. The challenge colors make a very nice card that can be used for different occasions. Love the stripes and your tips on how to make it easier. Thanks!

  9. Another absolutely wonderful card Brian. Your cs strips are the perfect background for your sentiment. You are making me take a second look at this stamp set.

  10. Hi Brian:

    Love that you backed the whisper white panel with the red then brought it all together using the red for the heart. Gorgeous color combo for sure. I am always intrigued with your spacing, it’s perfect! Do you use a ruler or what? LOL Just kidding. I know you have those gorgeous artistic eyes of yours. By the way, I owe you a quarter for the squinting suggestion.

  11. Wonderful card, Brian! Yours are always so crisp and perfect. I hope you don’t just whip them up because I agonize over each angle as I squint, and never achieve the perfection as you do!

  12. OK, love that slanted stripe! Happy 4th Brian!

  13. Clean and crisp…very nice, Brian. The Pool Party is an nice accent.

  14. Awesome card Brian. I love the colors you chose for this challenge and how well they work together.

  15. I wasn’t in love with the Craft white Ink…until now, just tried embossing with it and it’s perfect! Thanks Brain for that special TIP!

  16. Love the hint on using craft ink before the white embossing powder. The result is striking.

  17. Love this color combination for this time of the year, they look awesome together.
    When I saw the sentiment, I thought it was a die, it’s amazing how crisp and how perfect it looks!!
    Another fabulous card Brian.

  18. Fantastic clean card Brian! Great tips too.

  19. Jennifer Michalski

    Brian, I love the tip about embossing with the whisper white craft pad and white embossing powder! Thanks for sharing, this is genius 🙂

  20. Fabulous colors this week Brian! And your card demonstrates them beautifully! My husband was looking at the designer’s cards this week and he liked yours best! Well, after mine of course 🙂

  21. Brain, simply wonderful color combination – I had a blast working on my card for this week. Your sample turned out beautifully, with all the accents and layers – knocked it out of the park! I especially loved the touch of embossing to make the sentiment pop!

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