Dapper Dude colour palette

 For the second of the unusual colour palettes for masculine cards projects I have chosen to use the Dapper Dude colour palette.  

This palette includes the soft neutral smoky slate, the bright yellow called daffodil delight and the surprise pop of pink from flirty flamingo. This unusual combination was a little perplexing to start with but once I started looking at the  textiles around me the solution was easy.... checks! I love all styles of checks gingham, plaid, tartan houndstooth I love them all! I think they're timeless, elegant , ageless and gender neutral so perfect for this mini series of masculine cards 😃 Do you feel the same way? Or are checks just not your thing? 

So back to the colour palettes so far I've shared a project using the Groovy Guy and today's inspiration is using the Dapper Dude which leave 2 for projects in the next few days.

So with the colours and style sorted it was time to find stamps to help me achieve the look I was after. I decided to go with the Painted Stripes large background stamp to make the basis of my check pattern. 

This stamp gives a watercolour striped image when used. So to create the basis of my check I stamped it once onto a piece of white cardstock in smoky slate ink. Then reinked the stamp with the grey ink and rotated my cardstock 90° and stamped again . This gave the basic check pattern. 

I then took a ruler and my daffodil delight Stampin' Write marker and using the brush tip drew a grid pattern over top. I did this by eye but of course you could measure neatly if you'd prefer. 

I then took the flirty flamingo Stampin' Write marker and using the bullet tip drew more  grid lines on to the panel.

The finished piece had a great flannel check feeling to it just what I was after!

I mounted the panel onto a smoky slate A6 card base along with narrow borders of the yellow and pink cardstock above and below the check panel. 

The sentiment was heat embossed with white powder onto a piece of the same grey cardstock. Then I fussy cut it out and adhered it using 3d foam.

As the check panel was smaller than the stamped piece there was a lovely off cuts to use for the inside of the card.

All in all this card came together quickly and is certainly a technique that I will be using again. The colour palette is both pleasing to the eye as well as trendy and timeless at the same time for a masculine card. What do you think? Would you use this colour palette on a card for the men in your life?