Celebrate Card with Heart Balloons

Remember that yesterday I told you I dropped sequins onto my heart project? It occurred to me that, in addition to being a pretty piece of art and a functional set of swatches, I could also use my color chart as a fun way to randomly pick a color palette for a project to challenge myself. Sort of like throwing darts, but without putting holes in the wall. 

Once I had my color palette, I made this card.  

Celebrate Card with Heart Balloons (affiliate link)

So how exactly did I pick my color palette? When I dropped the sequins, one landed on a pink heart with a teal background. (Kuretake calls those colors "Rose Madder" and "Turquoise Deep Green.") The other sequin landed on "Imperial Violet." I was really happy with that trio of colors. Pink, teal, and purple are beautiful together. That would be an easy challenge. 

Too easy. So I decided to add the next closest color to the sequin ("Lemon Yellow") to make it harder. I went through my cardstock to find the closest matches I could to the four colors. I used the teal as a background, punched a bunch of hearts from the yellow, pink and purple, then arranged them into a bunch. I added embroidery floss strings and glued a pre-cut sentiment over the top. I thought I was done at that point and scanned the card...

... but I decided later that my balloons needed highlights. After a few quick marks with the Posca pen, my card was done. Much better. 

I had a lot of fun with this challenge. I will definitely be using my color chart as a color selector again in the future!