AECP - In the Mood for Color

Have you ever seen a color and it evoked a thought of happiness or sadness?  Have you ever been excited and thought about how a color could represent that excitement?  Well my latest Altenew Educators Certification Program class - In the Mood for Color is about learning various ways to evoke a mood by the colors we use on our projects.

For example, red can make you think about love, blue can be tranquil or peaceful, yellow is optimistic or cheerful.

So for my projects I chose to use the same stamp set and stencils but different colors to evoke a certain mood or feeling.  I will be using Craft a Life Kit - Fourishing Garden for these cards - the stamps, stencils and die.  Previously, my husband had mentioned grey being a good color for a sympathy card.  So I started there first.  After inking up the floral image with clear embossing ink I used silver embossing powder and heat set it. Then, I used Altenew Crisp Dye Inks Tranquility set - which are a blue grey hue. I used the inks with a blending tool to color in the image using the stencils.  Once that was completed I used the die to cut out the image  and then 3D embossed it with an embossing die I have had in my stash for years - just to give it a subtle texture. I ink blended the base after masking off the edges to make a frame.  I also used a stylus to emboss the same frame.  Before removing the low tack masking tape, I splattered the panel with the pearlescent watercolor in Altenew's Metallic Watercolor set.  The die cut floral piece was backed with foam tape before adhering to the panel. 

 

For my next card I wanted to go for a more cheery or optimistic mood.  So I took the large floral stamp and this time I embossed it with Rose Gold embossing powder.  This time I ink blended with the stencils using Altenew Fresh Dye Inks in various yellow and orange tones and just a touch of pink/red for the center of the flowers.  For the leaves, I chose green tones with a touch of aqua.  One I die cut this floral image I took a yellow marker and colored all the edges of the die cut so that it matched the cardstock.  A little bit of ink blending on the base layer and a splattering of Gold Metallic Ink Spray over the florals and the panel finished the card front except for sentiment.  Once again, I used foam tape to adhere the flowers to the panel and create a bit of dimension.

I really love how this turned out.  And I really love using this set with the stencils.  I think you can see in the next picture how using different colors can evoke different feelings or moods.

What are your thoughts?