Amazing what a night's sleep can do!

I struggled with this layout for a good part of the day on Saturday. Finally, I decided to post what I had on the constructive criticism forum and sleep on it. I woke up this morning to a few great suggestions on the forum and played for a while to incorporate some of the suggestions. While fiddling with the sliders trying to change the color of the background paper, I stumbled upon a true "Ah-ha" moment. The golden yellow of my pattern paper forms a triad on the color wheel with a blue-green shade (and a blue-violet shade but I didn't use any of that color) I never would have thought to use that color with the colors I was already using, but it works!

Here is the before and after -

BEFORE:

AFTER: I think I am ready to put it away and move on to the next assignment.

Argh... just noticed I missed cleaning up the red eye. *sigh* I'll have to remember to do that before I print it.