December 2025 Class - Scene Creation & Monochromatic Color Schemes

 

This month we're looking at aspects of scene creation - this time with Monochromatic color schemes.  All cards used Stampin' Up!s discontinued Winter Meadow papers, but most paper packs have papers that will work well for this technique. (As always, all Stampin' Up! images © 1990–2025 Stampin’ Up!®)  

I started with shades of brown using Early Espresso ink and cardstock.  The focal was a simple single-stamp scene like you see in the card above - though this one is dressed up as a shaker card with an embossed frame. To make it, I used a scene from the Winter Scenes stamp set, dies from the Framed Scenes die set and the Timber 3D embossing folder (both, unfortunately, discontinued), but again, you can find great dies and embossing folders on their website here.  The sentiment was created using a discontinued hybrid embossing folder called Thoughtful Moments.

The same color scheme was used for the center step card below.  

This time, the focal was created using two stamps from that same Winter Scenes stamp set - with some masking.  Sentiments came from two discontinued sets - Sentimental Rose kit, and Flower Cart stamp set.  

Next, I moved to a blue color scheme using Night of Navy ink and cardstock.  

 

This time I used stamps from Stampin' Up!s Woodland Scenery set and stamped directly onto the patterned paper.  (Sentiment was from the discontinued Paper Pumpkin kit called Warm Wishes).  

As you can see, the second of these cards was made like an easel card. I didn't like the way the smoke and logs were see-through enough that they didn't show well over the patterned paper.  I colored them in with a light Boho Blue Stampin' Blends marker - which fortunately looks better in real life than in the picture!

And finally, I made cards using a blue-green color scheme. This time, the cardstock used was Pretty Peacock, and I used both Pretty Peacock and Lost Lagoon inks.  

This first card again used stamps from Woodland Scenery (with sentiment from Warm Wishes Paper Pumpkin kit). 

 

For this last card, I used BOTH stamp sets - Winter Scenes and Woodland Scenery. This time I used Lost Lagoon ink for all but the greeting (from discontinued Greetings of the Season) which was stamped in Pretty Peacock ink.  I really like the way all those stamps combined on this card - all four of the Winter Scenes, and then the trees, deer, and snow from Woodland Scenery. In hindsight, however, it might have been better to have used both inks like I did for the previous card. I would have liked just a bit more contrast. Anyway, I finished this card by adding a few snowflake confetti pieces I had in my stash.