Seeing Red

[Alida]

Hello all you wonderfully clever people out there. My comment is that I do not like the colour red for paper and somehow I find I have quite a bit of it from when I first began cardmaking. My question is: Does anyone have some suggestions how to use up the paper? And what colours go better with red besides white or green.

[Rox71]

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Originally Posted by Alida

Hello all you wonderfully clever people out there. My comment is that I do not like the colour red for paper and somehow I find I have quite a bit of it from when I first began cardmaking. My question is: Does anyone have some suggestions how to use up the paper? And what colours go better with red besides white or green.

Use a combo of red, black and white, I really like those colors and love seeing it in the gallery.

[showmestamper]

I was going to suggest red/white/black but Roxie beat me to it!
I like red with creamy caramel too. Here's three from my gallery.
Gallery at Splitcoaststampers
Gallery at Splitcoaststampers
Gallery at Splitcoaststampers

[nannersmom]

Try Tempting Turquoise, Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Brocade Blue or Ballet Blue. Also, pretty much any of the Bold Bright family.

HTH!
Stacy

[kphorse]

Red with Craft or Confetti Tan are my best cards!

Red also goes well with navy and white.

HTH

Karen

[Alida]

Thanks for the response. What great ideas! And the gallery pics from Beth are gorgeous. I will certainly try the carmel colours...and the blues...turquoise... chocolate...
Thanks again

[laurakj]

Here's my current favorite use of red

Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery and Real Red

Gallery at Splitcoaststampers

[Melody Smith]

Red, black and white get my vote too. Such powerful colors together.

[Geneal]

I love red with turquoise, kraft, or sahara sand!

[sweetpea111403]

red with creamy caramel or close to cocoa look great..
or with chocolate chip...maybe add some old olive or artichoke
or brocade blue
or ballet bue and very vanilla mix
you can alwasy use the handy color caddy... lol

[Alida]

Thank you Jessica. I am certainly going to try those combos. (Not the teen burger kind)

[sweetpea111403]

here are color combo sform teh color challenges using real red card stock

#16 - Real Red, Basic Black, and Kraft
(If you don't have kraft paper I suppose creamy caramel would do the trick)

#42 - Real Red and Barely Banana

52d
orchid opulence, ballet blue, real red, tempting turquoise

52j
elegant eggplant, bashful blue, so saffron, real red, orchid opulence

I hope this helps!! if you need other shades of red color combos... you can look at the thread