Color Coordinates: Birthday Boy
Hi everyone, it’s Shari here with a Color Coordinates for you. I know masculine cards and colors are the most difficult so I’ve put this one together to use as a combination for young boys and toddlers.
I’ve used four main colors for my card and have suggested a fifth color (Sparrow) for a little bit older boy.
Stripes are perfect to create patterns for gender neutral and masculine cards. I’ve stamped my colors onto die cut balloons using the Misti tool and grid paper to help me keep everything aligned.
To help suspend my die cut messages, I’ve die cut small stars which I colored with Duckling ink using a sponge dauber. I used small pieces of foam squares to get the height I needed.
I have created a video that you can watch below or on our YouTube channel.
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Love those great striped balloons!
Such a great card, Shari!! Love the colors and how you have mixed up the pattern arrangement in the balloons.
Like how you made your own stripes
Love the colors and the hand stamped stripes!
Great job making the stripes.
Great card. I love the colors in the coordination inspiration and I like how you have dimension to the card.
I love any ideas for boy cards (those are so hard to come up with!) Thanks for the inspiration!
Beautiful soft colors for a boy!!
Awesome card! At first glance, I thought you used pp!
love all the dimension!
Fabulous colors and design, Sharri.
So cute! Love the color combo!
I love the calm colors.
Beautiful color combo, especially for guys.
A perfect card for a young boy!
Awesome card!
Gabi
So cute! I love these colours!
Love this ongoing series, so helpful and interesting to see what color combos others come up with
Another great color combo. I always love these combos and videos from Shari!
Love this card – so perfect for little and not so little boys and different colors would be great for a girl! We have three-year-old twin grandchildren, boy & girl, and this would be perfect for the next birthday! Thanks so much!
Great combination
Love the card and the color combo. Thanks
I really like this color combo. Very cute card!
Amazing inspiration. I will use baloon dies the same way
Great idea; wonderful colors and stripes for a boy. Thumbs up!
Love this. CAS and classy. Hugz
What a cool card! Stripes are perfect!
So cute! I
Beautiful colour combo, especially against a white background!!
nice and relaxing color combo, i like it for myself too, not just young adult men ;-)
Great card! I love the stripes and color combo & the suspended sentiment dies are just fantastic!
These look really wonderful! Such a great idea and fantastic colours. Would work really well for older boys too if you change the colours up a little. Thank you Shari!
Love the simplicity of thus card! The layering makes it look even better!
I adore balloons on cards!
I need to get those Stripe stamps. Love the color.
Great design! Balloons are always a hit, and I really like how you have colored these with the stripes. That MISTI sure is a great tool!
I usually think bold colors for masculine cards — thanks for showing that is not always the case.
Such a fun and lovely card! Thanks for the inspiration, and the lovely color coordinates – I struggle with masculine cards so this is really great.
These are great colours for anyone!
Sweet card!
Those are the prettiest balloons I’ve ever seen! Love the sentiment :)
Thanks for the inspiration!!
Amazing card!
I love the soft color palette! Thank you for the wonderful inspiration!