Playing with stripes

 I am definitely out of my comfort zone when playing with patterned card stock and paper on cards.  I feel my lack of artistic ability keenly when I try to do something unusual (for me), but I threw caution to the winds yesterday afternoon when I had a piece of orange and yellow striped paper and some deep blue card stock.  This is what I came up with:

I actually was surprised at how it looked when I got it all done.  The word "friend" looks like a different color but it actually is the same shade of yellow as the stripes.  For that matter, the colors on the entire card look muted in the photo but that is because I am NOT a good photographer.  The card is much brighter in real life!