Grab this easy idea for handmade cards using orange and blue for gorgeous color contrast!

I love playing with colors and at this time of year I like to share ideas for handmade cards using orange and blue. With orange and blue across from each other on the color wheel, they are beautifully complementary. I like to mix bolds with pales, muted colors with brights – all the different shades and tones look so pretty set against one another. I used this stunning color combination on A Fall Floral Card Made with Die Cuts and loved it so much I played around some more!

For this simple and pretty card, I used Rubbernecker’s new Pumpkin Outline die for the feature element, added it over a layer made with their Nested Rectangle w/ Small Large Holes, used a design from Rubbernecker’s Harvest Time 6×6 Paper Pad, as the background and added a sentiment from their Give Thanks Sayings.

This handmade gratitude card is really easy to make – scroll down for the details.

Card Base and Decorative Layer

• Use white cardstock to cut an A2 sized card base.  
• Cut a 5.50″ x 4.25″ layer from the Harvest Time 6×6 Paper Pad.
• Apply ATG adhesive to the designer paper layer and attach it to the card base.
• Use white cardstock to cut the smallest die from the Nested Rectangle w/ Large Small Holes.
• Apply strips of mounting tape to the back of the decorative layer and attach it to the card base.

Blue and Orange Pumpkin Outline and Sentiment

• Use soft blue cardstock to cut the main Pumpkin Outline section.
• Cut the accessory sections using orange and green cardstock.
• Attach the orange accessory sections to the back of the outline using connect glue.  Pro Tip:  Connect glue is my favorite to use for this type of technique because it dries perfect clear and won’t show if any squeezes out. 
• Inset the green leaf sections to the back of the outline and attach using pieces of double stick tape.
• Apply a generous amount of glossy accents to the back of the Pumpkin Outline and attach it to the decorative layer.  Pro Tip:  I would normally pop an image like the pumpkin up with mounting tape but I used glossy accents instead since the pumpkin was double layered and already added enough dimension.
• Stamp the Give Thanks Sayings sentiment on a white strip using Versafine Clair Pinecone ink.
• Apply touches of glossy accents to the layer and attach it to the Pumpkin Outline.

Here’s what I used from Rubbernecker today:

5624D Nested Rectangle with… [ RBB ] 5611-05D Pumpkin Outline Die [ RBB ] 35029 Give Thanks Sayings [ RBB ] 2005 Havest Time 6×6 Paperpack [ RBB ]

For all the everyday items I used today, here’s a collection of my favorite crafting items.

I hope this inspires you to try out your own ideas for handmade cards using orange and blue – you might not think these colors work as well together as they do but they sure are pretty!