Scraps and a Pretty Flower

Happy Monday!

It's that time in the Stampin' Up! year where the excitement is building while we all wait for the new catalog and celebrate our Oldies but Goodies!

Tea For Two Designer Series Paper is one of my favorites! It's in the Spring Catalog and celebrates the beautiful soft spring colors in a big way. I designed this card with nothing but scraps. A few cuts, hand cropped flagged banners, a pretty stamped flower (from The Secret Garden Stamp Set) stamped with Pretty In Pink ink, and a simple sentiment stamped with Crumb Cake ink (from Embellished Events).

DESIGN TIP: A few posts back, I talked about color saturation. All of these colors work so well together because their respective color saturation is spot on. If I added a yellow, my card would have been just as pretty, as long as the color saturation was compatible…an orange tone would work just as well…as long as the saturation was compatible.

I could have probably added a deeper color…maybe stamping the flower in Island Indigo, to add some interest. If I did that, I would have had to make it a focal point and balance it with a similar saturation in another area of the card…what comes to mind is possibly changing my sentiment color to Early Espresso, and the pink flagged banner to an Island Indigo pattern. That would probably work very well.

Give it a try and let me know.

Color Saturation is simply the intensity of the color.