A Happy Day with The PPA

I do love a good challenge.  This week’s Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge required a lot of purposeful plans and smart strategies.  Baked Brown Sugar, Pacific Point and So Saffron – definitely a combination I would have never derived on my own.  I did it, though, and here’s my card:

And here’s the challenge banner for this week’s PPA Challenge:

Tips, Tricks and Reminders:

• Working with the Colors.  I like these colors in any paired combination, but the three together were really hard for me to imagine.  I decided I would create a card that’s mostly Baked Brown Sugar and So Saffron with a touch of Pacific Point.  I started by cutting into a striped bag from the Celebration Basic Kit and built on that, alternating on between Whisper White, Baked Brown Sugar and So Saffron until the pop of blue in the center.
• Gettin’ Snippy.  The pop of blue in the center of this card is brought to you today by my incredible snipping abilities.  🙂  I embossed the image from Starburst Sayings on Baked Brown Sugar and again on Pacific Point.  I snipped the letters out of the Pacific Point starburst and glued them the Baked Brown Sugar one.  Good news – No need to snip out the middle of the “A” and the middle of the “P”s as they will have the same white center as their new home.
• Stacking the Shapes.  The HAPPY letters are mounted on a Baked Brown Sugar starburst – we’ve covered that.  Behind the starburst is a So Saffron circle from the Circles Collection Framelits and then a piece of Whisper White that’s cropped with the Deco Labels Collection Framelits.  I needed to “ground” the sentiment, so I added two of the large tags from Chalk Talk Framelits in Baked Brown Sugar (the bread-tie ends are centered beneath the layers of other times.  Those are layered on top of a framed Celebration Basics Kit bag and then a So Saffron card base.

Stamp Sets:  Starburst Sayings  Papers:  So Saffron, Baked Brown Sugar, Pacific Point, Whisper White  Accessories:  Starburst Framelits, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Circles Collection Framelits, Deco Labels Collection Framelits, Chalk Talk Framelits, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

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