This week’s Pal’s Paper Arts challenge has a gorgeous combination of colours although I don’t think that I’d have put them together. I am very glad that the pals did though – the three warm colours are wonderful together.
I decided to use some of the Stampin’ Up! Get Your Santa On set that has so far been unused – it’s too easy to keep using the same stamps. In fact, I overachieved and used two of them!
I started by stamping the joy in cherry cobbler on a scrap of very vanilla and then started stamping the presents being careful not to do alternating colours since that is a little too predictable. Even though I’m a mathematician and I adore symmetry, it would appear that the eye isn’t so thrilled with it on cards – I have to fight myself on that sometimes! I cropped the top of the scrap so that the JOY garland appears to be fixed to the top of it and then cut out a piece of baked brown sugar 1/4″ bigger in both dimensions. The photograph gives the impression that the baked brown sugar piece is just slightly above middle, but it’s actually quite a lot above that (the photo shows the back of the card a little giving that impression I think). I liked the little presents so much that I repeated them inside the card too. The envelope was finished off by lining with the framelit envelope liners and using the backgrounds DSP in cherry cobbler.
Sweet card! Love that you have to fight the symmetry – so funny.
😀 It’s a constant struggle. LOL.
Simple and cute! Thanks for playing along. See you again soon!
I like how you’ve placed the Joy banner, and GOOD JOB on not doing brown-red-brown-red! 🙂
Thanks Jen. I could hear you in my head commenting on alternately coloured Christmas lights!
Love the sweet banner. I too like symmetry and order and struggle with it as well. The lack of predictability of the color of the presents worked perfectly.
Thanks Michelle. I’m glad that I’m not alone!
Just adorable…love everything about it….clean, crisp, classic – WOW! (also the liner makes me smile) So glad that you played the PPA Challenge….
Very sweet and pretty! Thanks for having fun with the PALS this week.