AECP - Polychromatic

Merriam-Webster defines polychromatic as showing a variety or a change of colors. In Altenew's Polychromatic class, Nina-Marie teaches how to use color combinations and ranges of color to give you more confidence in color usage in card making.

Nina's monochromatic card technique with partial die cutting of the sentiment makes for a quick and easy set of cards. Since I don't do monochromatic or partial die cutting very often I decided to use both of these techniques to make a few cards.

I started out by selecting several pieces of colored cardstock and inks in 1-2 shades darker than the cardstock. Some times it is nice to just grab a few supplies and create a card or two to have on hand. I wanted something simple that could be masculine or feminine, so I chose a simple background stamp to use for these cards.

After stamping each piece of cardstock, I trimmed each piece to 3.75" x 4.5". Then I partially die cut each sentiment from the top of the colored cardstock panels and attached them to my card bases. The sentiments were die cut from Altenew Brushed Gold cardstock and pieced into the tops of each panel.

Supplies used:
Stamps - Altenew Faceted Stars, Altenew Gracious Peonies
Dies - Altenew Fancy Thanks, Altenew Script Words, Altenew Simply Hello
Inks - Altenew Fresh dye inks, Versamark
Paper - Altenew Brushed Gold cardstock, Taylored Expressions cardstock 
Misc - Imagine Crafts irRESISTible Pico Embellisher Gold, old epoxy embellishments,
embossing powder, Wagner Heat Tool, Spellbinders Platinum 6