Ombre hearts

In one of my Yahoo groups the theme for January & February is ombre technique something I enjoy either using inks or papers. Papers is simple as sometimes when I buy the paper packs from Michaels it has different tones.

On this card I used ColorMates by World Wind papers that back when we got them it had 4 tones...light, medium, dark & deep.

I cut my paper in equal sizes of each color to fill my front panel which I cut with a Spellbinders die. The ombre technique was top to bottom

For this one I used the pack form Micheals that had 5 different tones of purple, again cut the stripes to fill the front panel but this time I cut paper for the ombre left to right