In order to help me use the stamp collection I have created over the years I made a spread sheet with 5 columns. My plan is to use a random number generator to choose one from each of the 5 columns as part of my card. The columns are; stamp brand, card technique, color pallet, theme and extra.
Today is the first card I made using the spread sheet and random number generator. I ended up with Avery Elle as the brand, card sketch as the technique, color challenge as the color pallet, closest holiday as the theme, and twine as the extra.
Of the Avery Elle stamps the I have only one would work with the theme closest holiday, which is now Valentine's Day.
It is an oldy that I didn't find on the Avery Elle website, but I have seen other gnome or Viking stamps.
Since card sketch was the randomly chosen technique I thought I would first look for an Avery Elle card sketch and I found this one.
It was from another blog that featured Avery Elle stamps and it's linked here:https://tinyurl.com/4nfy6bzt
The color pallet choice was a color challenge and I choose this one:
It's from the Color Throwdown blog linked here:
The Valentine's Day theme with this color combination was going to be a challenge for sure. That green is the wild card.
I used the following copic combinations to color the Viking
Skin E00, E01, E02, E04
Beard and Boots: W00, W1, W2, W3
Gold Helmet: Y28, YR24, YR23, YR21
Pink Hearts: RV09, RV08, RV04, RV02
Green Clothes: G29, G17, G16, G14
Following the card sketch, I used the Viking as the focal image, added washi tape as the arrow under the Viking, I added some background stamping with a heart stamp from an old Stampin' Up set. I used gold twine to add more gold to the card.
I used the gallon, quart, pint theory with the color challenge. This theory works by having most of one color, less of a second, and the smallest of a third color. Pink was the gallon color with the background, washi tape, and stamping. Gold was the quart color with the helmet, and the twine. And green was the pint color only appearing in the Viking's clothes.
Some of the finishing touches I added to the card were glaze pens to the eyes and wink of stella to the helmet.
All of these can be found at craft stores and Amazon.
The gold twine I used was the last of a roll from my stash. It is similar to this one from Amazon.
Here is the link
Here's another look at the finished card.
The video can be watched here:
I had fun using the spread sheet and random number organizer. Hopefully it always turns out this well.
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