Hinting at Yellow

This week over at the Play Date Cafe, the challenge is to make a black and white project with a hint of yellow. Now, if I was to do something as anal as rank colours in order of appeal, yellow would be right at the bottom. I'm not sure why that is. It's a warm colour, the colour of sunshine. It's a fresh colour, it evokes Spring and daffodils. In theory, it should be glowing near the top of my list.

Trouble is, whenever I've incorporated it into a craft project or home decor, I dislike it. I think of sickness, jaundice, dying leaves, cold custard, cowardice, weakness. I have more negative associations than positive. It improves when it moves along the spectrum and becomes a yellow-orange. It starts to look a lot richer, more golden and honeyed.

That aside, I actually like it on this card. I can't think of another colour working as well as this does. Again, as I've said before, that's the joy of playing with colour challenge blogs. Plus it's a boon to be given colours that are far removed from Christmas. So what have I done? Made another card suitable for Valentine's Day. Am I getting soppy in my old age? Hard to believe. As the seventies pop song goes...they call me mellow yellow (see what I did there? lol )