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January Release Day

Feathered Friends 7 + Feathered Friends Mini 7

Just Sentiments: Milestones + Numbers + Just Sentiments: Established + Inside Greetings: Established

Color Ambassador: Lexi Daly

June 7, 2018      Papertrey Ink      18 Comments

Good morning! Welcome to this month’s color installment! Today we’ll take a look at monochromatic color schemes. Monochromatic literally means one color. A monochromatic color scheme is based on any single hue on the color wheel and can include various shades, tones, and tints of that color. In painting, these variations in color are created by adding white, gray or black to the pure color. For us, it’s about matching inks and playing with patterns.

As much as I love rainbow cards and a variety of color combos, I also love the look of a monochromatic card. Like analogous colors from last month, the resulting designs are usually calm, serene, and subtle because there is a focus on a single color or shades of that color that blend into each other. Let’s take a look at a few examples…

First up, I decided to make a new baby boy card. I used a single ink color plus white and Smokey Shadow as my neutrals. From a masked and blended background to stamped images, the spotlight is on Spring Rain. I followed one of my favorite monochromatic layout styles – remember my Pantone-inspired Make It Monday?

The simplicity of the Pantone card design sets the stage for focusing on a single color, while patterns like those in the clouds and on the elephant’s ear are key to keeping the end result interesting. I made a slight layout variation with my sentiment placement, which was better balanced on the right than on the left as on the original inspiration. A few clear sequins are the perfect finishing touch, adding a bit of bling and texture.

Next, I wanted to use more than one shade of a color. There are several good combos in the Papertrey ink collection, some of which I will highlight below. For this card, I decided on three different shades of yellow (surprise!), and a clean and graphic layout (surprise again!)…

Building forward with the lightest shade, I used Harvest Gold for a grounding element behind my stamped die cuts, Bright Buttercup for the sun as well as on the honey bottle, and Summer Sunrise for the honey portion of the bottle after stamping it in Bright Buttercup, selectively inking all but the cap. Although the dot pattern is nice here, it’s less important since I’ve combined different shades of the color. Again, my neutral ink of choice for the sentiment was Smokey Shadow. It’s great for sentiments when lighter colors are used.

And finally, a two-ink, three-paper grouping. Paper is another way to add to your monochromatic color scheme. Similar to the Pantone chips above, I was inspired by paint chips for this one. Many paint sample cards represent a family of shades and tints for a specific hue – the perfect inspiration for a monochromatic card! I used three papers to mimic such a paint chip for my background (Cocoa Bean, Classic Kraft, and Fine Linen), all cut from Cover Plate: Comic Book. Then I focused on two inks for the ice cream cone – Fine Linen for the cone specifically and Cocoa Bean for the ice cream scoops.

Again, pattern plays a huge part on this card since I went with one ink color for all of the ice cream scoops – patterns that I got from different stamp sets! I stamped the cute clouds still sitting on my desk from the first card and the dots from the second, all of which I used to die cut cool ice cream scoops. Pun intended – and I love it when I can come up with an idea that stretches my stamps! I finished off my ice cream cone with a Nuvo Dot chocolate chip right on top. The white embossed Thank You not only completes the sentiment perfectly but also really pops on the Cocoa Bean panel. Who wouldn’t love a chocolate thank you?!

Last, but not least, I also wanted to share an oldie but goodie, with a focus on texture. Adding texture is another great way to add interest to a monochromatic card – particularly an all white one. Pearlescent embossing paste (by Dreamweaver) and vellum add so much to the smooth white cardstock and really bring this all white card to the next level. (Click here for the original post.)

So, here are a few of my favorite monochromatic color schemes. These are by no means all of the options within the Papertrey collection – just a few of my tried an true. You can do a lot with just one color, but these groupings, whether you use all three or only two, will layer, blend, or work side by side beautifully for interesting one-color focused cards.

And there you have it! I hope you enjoyed this look at monochromatic color schemes and tips for creating with them. Do you have a different monochromatic grouping of Papertrey inks that you love? Do you have a favorite color you like to focus on? Please share in the comments!

Have a colorful day!
🙂 lexi

 

Supplies:
Welcome, Little One card
STAMPS: Baby Mine
INK: Spring Rain, Smokey Shadow
PAPER: Stamper’s Select White
DIES: Baby Mine
OTHER: post-it tape (masking), blending tool, MISTI, foam tape, clear sequins

Get Well Soon Honey card
STAMPS: Sunshine & Honey, Superhero
INK: Harvest Gold, Bright Buttercup, Summer Sunrise, Smokey Shadow
PAPER: Stamper’s Select White
DIES: Sunshine & Honey
OTHER: post-it tape (selective inking), MISTI, foam tape

You’re Sweet, Thank You card
STAMPS: Fun Lovin’, Baby Mine, Superhero, Sentiment Staples: Thank You
INK: Fine Linen, Cocoa Bean, Versamark
PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Fine Linen, Classic Kraft, Cocoa Bean
DIES: Fun Lovin’, Cover Plate: Comic Strip
OTHER: MISTI, white embossing powder, Nuvo Drops in dark walnut

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  1. Cindy H. says

    June 7, 2018 at 9:17 AM

    Lexi, your cards are not only beautiful but fun! I really like monochromatic cards but I’ve not been very good at achieving a look I’m satisfied with in the past but I’m more hopeful now. Thanks!

    Reply
  2. Luanne Ford says

    June 7, 2018 at 9:29 AM

    Your color posts are among my favorites! It has helped me so much, and this is an awesome post too! Thank you so much!

    Reply
  3. Joan says

    June 7, 2018 at 9:41 AM

    So cool! How did you get the embossing paste on the wedding card to be shiny (type of paste/directions & stencil name please!)? Very pretty on the white card!

    Reply
    • Lexi Daly says

      June 8, 2018 at 10:58 PM

      thank you joan! i updated the post with a link to the original post on my blog, but it’s a pearlescent embossing paste by dreamweaver and the stencil was created using cover plate: modern cross quilt.

      Reply
  4. Kari D says

    June 7, 2018 at 10:26 AM

    Thanks for the great ideas, Lexi. Just the other day I was asking myself what that ‘blends’ were for the pinks! You answered my question!

    Reply
  5. DIANA L. says

    June 7, 2018 at 10:55 AM

    Love the color combos and the patterns

    Reply
  6. SueCD says

    June 7, 2018 at 10:59 AM

    I love your color posts. So educational and inspirational. Thank you.

    Reply
  7. kellyv says

    June 7, 2018 at 11:05 AM

    i don’t always like to choose favourites but, Lexi, i love your colour ambassador feature for the simple fact that i always seem to learn something new about how colour works. thank you for all of the effort you put into these posts and keep up the great work!

    Reply
  8. Catherine Milne says

    June 7, 2018 at 11:34 AM

    As usual, well explained and I learned something. Thank you, Lexi

    Reply
  9. Stephanie Clapper says

    June 7, 2018 at 12:38 PM

    Hi Lexi! Clean and graphic cards are so hard for me because I always want to add more. But your designs show how to achieve that style and still be beautiful. And monochromatic! Your chocolate thank you is one of my favs ; I really love how you used the 1/3 concept using cardstock. Awesome! My favorite colors schemes usually fall in the pale peony, berry sorbet & pinks. Thank you so much for helping us learn. 🙂

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  10. Greta H says

    June 7, 2018 at 1:10 PM

    Thanks for another great color post, Lexi! Now I can start my list of PTI inks in the same shade–light to dark. I’d love for PTI to list inks this way in the shop or at least have a resource sheet to use. So hard to tell looking at a computer screen. I should have printed what was shown on the blog each time a new color was introduced–but didn’t think to do that.
    Your cards today are so inspiring–love each one, but especially the baby card! Your Pantone MIM is still one of my favorites & think I’ll try to use one of the cards I made for the next Transformation Tuesday challenge. I love white on white, but haven’t done one with as much of the base cardstock showing & it makes such a difference–love it!

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  11. merryf says

    June 7, 2018 at 1:23 PM

    And another fabulous color post from Lexi! I love these instructive posts — you’ve included so many lessons, and there’s so much to look at and learn. Already, my cards are benefiting from these color cues! Thank you for the inspiration!

    Reply
  12. Kathy Mc says

    June 7, 2018 at 1:37 PM

    Awesome color post, Lexi, and appreciate learning all these tips from you regarding rainbows, monochromatic, etc. Each card is such a unique way of expressing color shades/hues. I’m thoroughly enjoying this feature even more than I could have imagined. TFS! ?

    Reply
  13. MaryAnn N. says

    June 7, 2018 at 3:11 PM

    Love the you’re sweet card and the baby card. Wonderful inspirational cards.

    Reply
  14. see mary stamp says

    June 7, 2018 at 7:14 PM

    Wonderful post. I love the look of all of the cards and appreciate the suggestions for different ink/color groupings.

    Reply
  15. Marcia Hill says

    June 7, 2018 at 7:37 PM

    Amazing post Lexi…thanks so much for all the great tips! :0)

    Reply
  16. C says

    June 7, 2018 at 11:16 PM

    Lexi,

    Thank you so much! This is sooo helpful! I use to purchase ink and card stock from Stampinup, but quit because they stopped coordinating their inks. They use to have a light, medium, dark in the same family. Now, they may have two pinks, one is warm, one is cool. I never really was enthused about that company, but now i don’t purchase anything from them.

    This is exactly what I’m looking for! Inks that work together, in the same family! Thank you so much!

    Keep the color combos coming. It is wonderful!

    Reply
  17. Barbara M says

    June 9, 2018 at 11:06 AM

    Great post ! Sometimes you can tell which colors to use…then at other times I just get blocked. Especially with a monochromatic look. The summer sunrise was a surprise and success as that honey on the bear shape. I would have not gotten that one. Even your brown ice cream looks good…in my mind I never think of using a brown on paper even though I would eat chocolate ice cream! Because I like colorful ice creams on paper!

    Reply

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