I’m posting the last Pantone card challenge prompt of the year a little early.
Our final colour picks of the 2017 are:
Neutral Grey
And Shaded Spruce:
There’s plenty of scope for combining these shades too as well as focusing on one!
- As those lovely cookies demonstrate, the neutral grey tones can be used together to create a monochrome look that plays with dark and shade. You could even incorporate silver or black heat embossing to accentuate the details.
- How beautiful do those snowflakes look? I’m sure you have snowflake dies and stamps in your stash that would work well as a DIY background or as the focal point of your card design.
- There’s also scope to create a blended background with Distress Inks, combining masking techniques for the moon, and you could even introduce the spruce shade into your blending or for the trees.
- Neutral grey of course can be a great background instead of white. One of my personal favourites!
- As for Shaded Spruce – the following ink shades in my stash are a perfect fit, you may also have them:
Pine Needles – Distress Ink
Evergreen – Altenew
Pine Feather – PTI
Noble Fir – Lawn Fawn
Meadow – Adirondack - Any of these inks would be a great bold colour for foliage, pine boughs and trees.
- When used as foliage, blush pink tones also work great to highlight the green – so blush berries rather than red, blush tone winter roses, so many possibilities.
Here’s a card idea from last year that demonstrates how the spruce green, neutral grey background, and blush pink tones could be combined:
I hope you’ve enjoyed this year’s prompts!
Happy crafting!
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