Colour Blocking - An Easy and Fun Technique

Have you tried the Colour Blocking Technique? It is easy and fun, and gives your cards an interesting look. It is also a great way to use up smaller pieces of card stock or Designer Series Paper you have sitting around looking for a good card front home!

Just select strips of card stock or DSP that you like together, and glue them to a piece of paper (I used printer paper). The strips can be the same width, or different, it doesn’t matter. Once they are glued down, trim to your desired size. I used strips of So Saffron, Petal Pink, Grapefruit Grove and Flirty Flamingo and layered them with a sort of ombre look, light to dark.

Next, choose a die with an interesting shape that looks like something without a stamped image inside. Some dies that cut flowers etc. will work, while others may not look like anything in particular without a stamped image inside. I used the Cross of Hope dies. for my card. After you have cut out your image, mount on a card stock layer. I used Basic Black so my die cut would really pop, and included a smaller cross die as well. If you use a light coloured background you also include a stamped image in the ‘hole’, then your die shape isn’t a critical.

Adhere to a card base, Grapefruit Grove for this card, and add a sentiment. I used a stamp from the Hold On To Hope stamp set, stamped with Grapefruit Grove ink on So Saffron card stock, and cut with another die from the same set.

One of the other benefits of this technique is that after you cut out your die image, you can use the ‘negative’ to make another card!

I mounted this one on Basic Grey card stock, and used the same coodinating colours for the rest of the card. The sentiment is from Lilypad Lake, and cut with Stitched Nested Labels Dies. I finished it off with some 1/8” Grossgrain Ribbon in Grapefruit Grove.