good morning! welcome to day five of the papertrey ink december countdown to new stamps and one last look at my new pieces of confetti set, perfect match. i managed a post a day since the introduction - yay! i really wasn't sure i would be able to, so that makes me happy. today, i decided to make a couple of cards in a more unexpected color palette using the outline single stamp image.
as i always say, i love a good rainbow card! so i started with just that - a line up of rainbow topped matches. i think i need a box of these in real life, lol!
i stamped them a little wonky for interest and colored them in with two shades of each color for depth. then i balanced my line up of matches with a mix of black text for the greatest contrast. i love the boldness of black with a rainbow. popped up and flush to the right side, this is one of my go-to clean and graphic layouts. this card lights up my life!
next, i've been dying to pair the matches with bold borders: love - the hearts in the frame coordinate nicely with the small puffy hearts in the perfect match set and the smaller sentiments are just the right size for the opening and layers that fit there.
i ended up using a similarly sized layer from nesting basics: pierced rectangles for the extra detail and how it looked popped up, stamping two matches touching tips with a heart above. in keeping with my bright and white theme, i decided on bright blue matches and a contrasting red heart. a perfect match all around - what's not to love?!
and there you have it - two clean and graphic cards with a whimsical appeal! these are the kind of cards i could/should leave out for my husband to "borrow" for my gifts, lol! i hope you've enjoyed my projects this week. it's such a fun set to play with, especially when it comes to the non-card projects. but you can make some pretty cool cards too - or maybe we should say they're hot! be sure to check out the papertrey ink blog for the final countdown links and product info and get your trigger finger ready for tomorrow night!
happy shopping!
:) lexi