Starter Color Combinations for Birthday Celebrations

On Friday, as I shared my birthday blog candy giveaway, I told you that I don’t like to make a big deal about my birthday.  Still, it’s been amazing to receive all of your birthday wishes and amazing cards.  How wonderful!  As we roll off the high from my birthday celebration and start preparing for the release of Stampin’ Up!’s Occasions Catalog in January – you know that book is always filled with great inspiration for birthday projects.

Today, I’m sharing my suggestions for great starting points when choosing colors for birthday cards.  There are all kinds of birthday cards, and I’m focusing on three – cards for him, cards for her and cards for kids.  These are intended to be starting points – while others will definitely work, I’ve selected a central color.  You can pick two or three of the other colors.  No rules.  If you have a hard time with color selection, add these color charts to your repertoire of color combinations.

DISCLAIMER:  In order to pull together colors for a specific group of people, I had to make some widespread generalizations.  For example, pink might be a great card for most women – but not all women like pink.  You still have to make selections based on the person for whom you are creating a card, and that might require you to edit my selections below.  Again, these are generalizations that can’t possibly apply to every man, woman or child.  Still, I think they’re a great starting point.  🙂

• Birthday Color Inspiration – Starter Colors for Him.  I’ve talked about the importance of color in cards for men since I started as a demonstrator.  I see so many all-brown and all-blue cards that are for men, but men have it in their hearts to find other colors appealing.  Orange and purple and yellow and green can also be very successful on a card for a man – especially when the card is celebratory and fun.  Start by using is sparingly, but there are so many other great colors you can use for his card.

• Birthday Color Inspiration – Starter Colors for Her.  The left side of my Starter Colors for Him featured shades of blue and aqua.  Similarly, the left side of my Starter Colors for Her are shades of pink and coral.  Not every woman would love this color palette (my mom loves blues and greens), but some of these colors could be a great starting point.

• Birthday Color Inspiration – Starter Colors for Kids.  Birthday cards for kids are almost always bright and cheery.  You can almost always reach for colors in the Brights color family for great color combinations on a child’s card.  They are the most basic colors of blue, purple, red, orange and yellow.  Cheery fun!

What other colors do you think easily fall into these categories?  Remember – we have to make some wide-sweeping generalizations to create effective starting points.  There’s lots of great birthday inspiration coming soon!  Be on the lookout!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

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