This week’s Pals’ Paper Arts challenge is to use three rather vibrant colours. I’ve had it percolating in my brain for a day or two. Earlier this week, I went to a class at my upline Jen’s house – technique Tuesday. One of the cards was making a Mondrian background so named for Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter whose art consisted of black lines on white with blocks of primary colours. Since the Pals’ challenge needed a lot of white for me to feel comfortable, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to recreate this card – even if I’m not using primary colours.

Here’s the banner which inspired this card:

Definitely bright and it could be overpowering. So I took a piece of whisper white and cut strips of basic black into 1/8 inch wide strips. The idea here is that all the colour blocks have to be surrounded in black. I used my 1 inch square punch to create some of the coloured blocks and my trimmer to make a 1″ by 2″ melon mambo piece and also a 1/2″ by 1″ tempting turquoise piece. And then it was a matter of just building the card, adding strips of black where I wanted and always ensuring that the colours were surrounded. I found it best to use little dots of the tombow glue – the little black strips don’t need masses of glue – otherwise you get a very sticky card! The card looked best surrounded by 1/8 inch of black so that it looked as if the sequence was continuing – hence I mounted this on a black card base.

See you tomorrow,

Liz