A Pot of Happy Thoughts!

I’m featuring a springtime “happy” Fun Fold card for you today. The Basket of Blooms stamp sets is one of those sets that is tucked away on page 48 in the current Annual Catalog. In my last post, I featured a card I made with the same stamps, but with different colors. The card design was also different. Today’s card is a Flip Fun Fold and very easy to put together.

Design Tip: Aren’t these colors beautiful together. Even though this is a really “cool” (wow) color combination, it’s very, very warm. Always remember when you are matching colors for your projects, warm tones will work well with warm and cool tones with cool. We usually recognize blues to be cool colors, but Pretty Peacock is a warm blue, meaning that it has red in it.

I verified this with the RGB numbers for Pretty Peacock: R 1, G 124, B 121. This means that Pretty Peacock is red and equal amounts of green and blue. Green and blue mixed create cyan (an aqua/teal blue shade). Add a small amount of red and you have a warmer blue tone. The same applies to Mossy Meadow. It’s green, but has a warm tone. The RGB for Mossy Meadow is: R 92, G 107, B 43. Lots of red in Mossy Meadow, and that’s what gives it a deep warm tone. It’s obvious that Terracotta Tile is warm, but just for fun its RGB is: R 229, G 118, B 184. Hmmm, red mixed with Cyan!

I love this pot of blooms but you already know that since I’ve used the same stamps twice. I ordered this stamp set because I liked the plant pot image and the basket image. Isn’t that little bow image adorable?

The Basket of Blooms stamp set is an image only set. There are no sentiments in the set, but the Happy Thoughts stamp set works so well with it. Below is the inside of my Fun Fold.