Subtly Yours, A Dynamic Duo Color Challenge

 Once again, I struggled a bit for this challenge this week.  Maybe it's my mojo, maybe it's the springy theme that these colors bring to mind.  Whatever the case may be, I wanted to play, once again, with this week's color challenge on Dynamic Duos: Certainly Celery and Pretty-in-Pink.

I have a great big board hanging in my studio that has lots of ideas: cards from swaps, from magazines, or from stores (...shudder...).  On my board I have one of these fancy fold cards and decided to pull out my pattern pack and use the pink.

 Here's the first one.  A base of Whisper White, a layer of Certainly Celery, and then the Pretty-in-Pink DSP.  Too cute!  In the center there's a 1 1/4" white square topped with a celery postage stamp punch, topped with a 1" square of white that has the image from Cute By the Inch stamped on it.  I colored the stamp using my celery and pink markers.  I popped that stamped image on the top.

I also added a 1/4" white grosgrain.  Inside, the sentiment reads "Happy Birthday" from the Happiest Birthday Wishes set.  Both the sets I used are retired hostess sets... the gift that keeps on giving!

This is the second card I made.  It's a card evolution!  I took the same basic pattern I used above but stepped it up a bit.  I added a polka dot embossed layer of pink below the celery layer, which was a bit bigger than the one above.  I also added a polka dotted ribbon, tying in the theme of polka dots on this card.  Again, inside I have the Happy Birthday sentiment.

Thanks for looking!