How to coordinate colors for your next card

Don't you love it when stamp sets match designer paper, or the other way around? Paper crafting doesn't have to be difficult and I love that Stampin' Up! coordinates everything for us busy crafters.

As an example, the Happiness Blooms product suite. There are so many products that are color coordinated for you and you can even get a cardstock pack of the main colors: Call Me Clover, Lovely Lipstick and Night of Navy. Makes crafting easy doesn't it?

In the card below I simply layered solid and patterned paper, then added two coordinating colors and then added the phrase circle using the Stitched Shapes framelits. Do you like Call Me Clover as my ink choice?

Below my card is a list of instructions in case you want to copy my idea the next time you craft. And if you don't own the Happiness Blooms product suite, try my idea using products you have on hand!

Supplies

Stamp sets: Beauty Abounds (148726)

Ink: Call Me Clover (147139)

Paper: Whisper White (100730); Happiness Blooms designer series paper (148795), Calypso Coral (122925), Call Me Clover (146969)

Other: SNAIL adhesive (104332), Stitched Shapes framelits (145372), Big Shot (143263), Magnetic Platform (130658), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430)

Measurements

Whisper White: 3 3/8” x 5 1/8”; 2 1/4” square
Calypso Coral: 8 1/2” x 5 1/2”; 3 1/4” x 1/2”
Call Me Clover: 3 1/4” x 1/2”
Happiness Blooms: 3 1/4” x 5”

Instructions

Fold Calypso Coral card stock in half to create card base.
Adhere Happiness Blooms layer to Whisper White layer, using SNAIL adhesive.
Ink phrase using Call Me Clover ink and stamp onto Whisper White square. Diecut using Stitched Shapes circle.
Adhere Call Me Clover strip across card front, adhering to Happiness Blooms paper.
Adhere Calypso Coral strip across card front, having a bit hang over Happiness Blooms paper.
To complete card, add phrase circle using Stampin’ Dimensionals.