POLL: Do you usually mix white & cream on a layout?

Nope - for me it's either all cream-based or all white-based and I cannot mix the two. (Wow, that sounds more rigid than I actually mean it when I write it out like that!) What I mean is that if I start a page using one or the other, I'll seek out embellishments, other papers, etc. for the page that have the same base (cream or white).

Never.
Just my personal opinion....they don't match.

I only mix if it's very intentional - sometimes it does work but rarely! If my ephemera is stark white and I'm doing a cream based layout I have a copic marker to colour the white bits cream!

Sometimes it’s fine. I wouldn’t mix a distressed or aged cream with a crisp white, but a “clean cream” can work with white, depending on what else is going on. I probably wouldn’t layer one right in top of the other, but I do f mind the two existing on the same page.

Here’s a LO where I did put cream right on top of white. I love this page. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

http://instagram.com/p/CcBfXW7PRkL

It depends on the feel of the supplies. If I was working on a fresh, clean looking layout with lots of white I wouldn’t add anything with a warm cream vintage look. However, if I was using supplies with a vintage look and feel it could use some brightening I would add some bright whites here and there to freshen it up a little. So I guess I will mix white and cream if they’re both fresh looking or if the cream or vintage supplies need some freshening.

Yep. I also wear shirts with white in them with cream or light khaki bottoms or cream sandals with white pants and dresses. For me it’s about the undertone/hue of the white and cream, or the style, not the colors themselves.

Yep, I do from time to time.

I will do this in certain circumstances. As a rule, I don't generally do it, but I agree with those who have said it depends on whether it is a warm white, or a stark white. I think I might have some papers with both a white (or more white) and cream. Those kind of papers help to bring white and cream together on a layout and help everything make sense. Sometimes it's hard to avoid if I have a perfect paper from one collection and a perfect embellishment from another.

Yes. If it is a mixture of white and cream, I won't buy it. I just don't care for the look of it.

i usually border my photos in white cardstock. this makes it easy for me to use other white if i like.

PaperAngel - no, I typically won't buy a collection that has a lot of white and cream mixed together. But it depends on several other things: how much I like the various elements of the collection, whether they're separate enough that I can use the white elements separately from the cream elements, how much I think I'll use each of the pieces, etc.

I do. I personally don’t care for this “rule”. If I think it looks good together, I use it no matter what color it is. If I put them together on a LO I’m working on, and it’s not visually appealing to me, I just don’t use it. I treat them as any other color.

Yes, I’ll buy a collection with both.