Sweet Inspiration

This time at Jingle Belles, we're asking you to make cards inspired by beautifully striking color palette of this plate of cookies from Sweet Sugarbelle at The Cake Blog – Pink, Grey (or Silver) and Ivory (or White). You can also take inspiration from the cookies and other design elements, if you wish, but please make sure you stick with the color palette. 

Here's my card:

I've changed the proportions of the colors a bit (obviously I love dark pink more than the cookie baker does, lol!) but otherwise stuck faithfully to the palette. When I saw the inspiration photo, the first thing I noticed --and wanted to mimic-- was the way some of the cookies were rectangles framing up design elements like the stylized tree. I decided to make some cookie-sized rectangles and use the inset diecutting technique to get a similar effect. The (ancient) snowflake die is from Spellbinders, the tree is Echo Park and the foliage is Sunny Studio. I've used a mix of plain and shimmer cardstock, glitter paper, and metallics to make the design more interesting and textural, and scattered Eyelet Outlet Pink Pearls all over, similarly to the way the candy dots were used to decorate the cookies.

Please visit Jingle Belles to see Stephanie's beautiful card and then start planning how you will use this beautiful palette to inspire your next holiday card.