This week at CanYouCaseIt.com we’re doing a Holiday Color Challenge:

A few years ago, I wouldn’t necessarily have thought of Real Red, Pool Party, and Very Vanilla as a traditional holiday color combo. But after using them together to coordinate with Stampin’ Up’s wonderful Christmas Designer Series Papers, such as the Home for Christmas DSP, I’ve come to really like them.

The cool blue like ice, and the warm red like a crackling fire, remind me of two of my favorite things about the traditional holiday season. I say traditional holiday season because, here in the South, we rarely have snow or ice or a fire in the fireplace this time of year. Yesterday, just 12 days before Christmas, it was in the mid-70s!

The Very Vanilla reminds me of a color that we called Winter White when I was growing up, though I haven’t heard the term in a long time. It’s just a little warmer, and maybe a little classier feeling, than the cold, stark, snowy white.

Note: the ribbon is the same color as the Very Vanilla card stock, but the light reflects off the satin ribbon differently, and I just couldn’t find a camera angle that would show it.

For today’s card, I decided to let the DSP do most of the work. On a Pool Party card stock base, I glued a piece of the red stripe paper, then a piece of the snowy blue paper, both from the Home for Christmas DSP. I liked it so much, I didn’t want to cover it up too much, so I only added a couple more things.

First was a piece of shiny, satin ribbon in Very Vanilla. Then came the sentiment from the Wonderland stamp set, stamped in Real Red on Very Vanilla card stock, then matted with Real Red card stock. I cut the ends of the sentiment with the Decorative Label Punch, for what I think is a pretty cool effect.

Hurry to get these products now, because some of them will retire January 4, unless they sell out before then!

Here’s what I used:

Thank you for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!