Orange and gold are brave colors for a baby’s card, and here they work. Paper-cut marigolds, little suns and curling leaves make a thick frame around cream paper, the way folk art is printed on festival banners, and the title is set in the same warm red.
The frame is busy and the middle is calm, which is what makes it work: the eye goes to the flowers first and then straight to the words. It is a card for families who want color, for a party on a porch strung with paper flowers, for late summer and fall.
It fits a late-summer or fall party, a porch strung with paper flowers, and families who want color instead of pastel pink. Put marigolds in jars down the table, serve lemonade and churros, cut an orange cake, and send the guests home with a packet of flower seeds.
