Stampin’ Up!’s 2024-2025 Annual Catalog can be used as a source of inspiration for card making. It is full of card ideas, tips for stamping, and techniques to try. This year’s catalog also has two pages (pages 132-133) dedicated to color theory specific to Stampin’ Up!’s 50 signature colors. Using just stamps, ink, and Basic White cardstock I’m going to show you how to use the color theory information and the color wheel to create simple cards.
All the supplies used on the pictured cards are listed at the end of this post! Are you ready to get started with some color theory? Let’s first get familiar with some terminology we can use to describe working with color.
Hue – the purest version of colors around the color wheel and all the colors in between.
Value – How dark or light a color is: shades & tints
- Shade is when black is added to a hue to create a darker color value creating a deeper more intense hue.
- Tint is when white is added to a hue to create a lighter color value resulting in a softer, pastel hue.
Types of Color Combinations
- Monochromatic – Uses 1 hue. Can be paired with shades or tints of that same color.
- Analogous – Uses 3 or 4 hues that are side-by-side on the color wheel.
- Complementary – Uses 2 hues that are opposite from each other on the color wheel.
- Triadic – Uses 3 colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel in a triangle
Here is your homework! 😉
- Watch the video tutorial.
- Download the pdf to use while creating the Triple Time Technique.
- Get out your stamps, ink, and cardstock and apply some color theory to your creations.
Triple Time Technique with Triadic Color Combinations
Other Color Combinations
I hope you are inspired to pull out your ink pads and try some color combinations of your own using Stampin’ Up!’s color theory resources on pages 132-133 of your Annual Catalog! Happy Creating!
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Thank you for this video. You did a WONDERFUL job explaining the color wheel and color theories. AND you samples were beautiful and easy to replicate.
Thank you so much, Denise! I learned so much myself!
Dear Robin I just received my gift from you and what a fun surprise! So many wonderful things to make really quick and cute cards. Thank you so much. I also want to thank you for your you tube on color theory . There was so much great information in it that I will defiantly watch it again. Your ideas for making the little tools so we can use the catalogue color wheel were very good. I am looking forward to Stampin UP releasing the version that you had, I will surly be buying that . Thanks again for all of the thought you put into the gift that you sent. Sincerely, Kathy
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your feedback and praise, and I’m thrilled that you like your mystery grab bag! Hugs!