I love to collect and use Stampin’ Up!’s Designer Series Papers. What a great way to find inspiration for our projects! The colors and patterns pair perfectly with other products we love. The Merry Bold & Bright Designer Series Paper (available in Stampin’ Up!’s September-December 2023 Mini Catalog) is filled with bright colors and bold patterns that are perfect for cheery Christmas cards, but you’ll use many of these pages for birthday cards and other celebrations throughout the year. I’m excited to share a bit more about these papers today.
I often pull my colors right from the Designer Series Papers as a starter. That’s a huge benefit of Stampin’ Up!’s Designer Series Papers – they are designed with the amazing shades in our color families, so the pair perfectly with our cardstock, inks and accessories. Here’s a look at the patterns and colors in the Merry Bold & Bright Designer Series Paper:
This vibrant pack of papers includes Blueberry Bushel, Crushed Curry, Flirty Flamingo, Granny Apple Green, Lemon Lime Twist, Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Poppy Parade and Shaded Spruce. What an amazing collection of gorgeous designs!
Inspiration
I have really enjoyed working with the pages in the Merry Bold & Bright Designer Series Paper – how could I not?! Here are some of my projects with the pages from the papers (you can click on each photo to read the original post about each project):
Today I’m going to share a couple suggestions for pulling together great color combinations with the patterns in the Them Bones Designer Series Paper.
Straight from the Papers
These colors are combined from the colors exclusively in the Merry Bold & Bright Designer Series Paper – such a great variety of colors in this pack of papers:
Combined with Other Colors
By adding one other color to the shades in these papers, you can really transform the feel of the pages – or create all new combinations with inspiration from the paper. Here are some color combinations that feature two colors from this pack of papers and one color from outside the pack:
By limiting the colors you’ll use in a project (or expanding the colors to those outside a pack of papers), you can really find some beautiful color combinations for our projects.
If you’d like to see all of the products currently available in the Merry Bold & Bright Suite Collection, click on the image below:
I hope you find this helpful, I and I hope some of these combinations inspire you. Please save any (or all of these) to Pinterest for future reference.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Brian
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Great ideas. I adore the Happiest of Birthdays card because it shows the range of possibilities for this DSP.
Love your cards ! I love, love DSP and your cards are great examples of how to use it for different events ! It`s hard to pick a favorite !!