One Birthday Card, Hold The Sentiment

Here's a quick and simple gatefold card that uses 4 different papers from the Nana's Kid stack. The party hat and balloon are whale  punches with some kid's glitter on them. The present is just a square cut out with a paper trimmer. Someone forgot to tie a bow on it though. The white dots on the paper come pre-embossed so the card has a lot of texture in person. The hat and balloon are bumped up.

I tried the card with green paper in the background and different colors for the hat, balloon and box but this was the color layout I liked the best. If you want things to match better instead of pop, use a more muted background color that more closely matches one of the colors in the card and the embellishments. Since there are already multiple shades of orange/peach, putting it all on the darker muted orange helped to frame it all an make it pop more.

The Differences Give This Simple Card Appeal

Here's another male card using paper from Nana's Kids stack. The dotted circles in the background are a large Stampin' Up! background stamp that I used to make my own red themed designer paper. Adding the background stamp added just enough extra that even though this a very easy card to make it looks complete. The only other real trick is that every one of the squares is mounted differently so there is no obvious pattern. This confounds you and makes you look at it longer. The squares were intentionally placed. The first two on the left lead you toward the sentiment and the final one on the right is horizontal simply to make it more different than the one its next too.